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cies, a complete set of which was sent for determination to Mon 

 sieur August Salle in Paris. Only a few of them were deter 

 mined by Salle and none returned. The Salle collection has 

 recently been bought by the British government and the material 

 is now in the British Museum. On the island of Montserrat Mr. 

 Hubbard collected about the same number of species, all of them 

 being of small size. A set of these, also, were sent toM. Salle 

 but hardly any determinations were received from him ; never 

 theless a complete set of this collection is now preserved in the 

 National Museum. 



From 1894 to 1898 the only additions were such as came to 

 the Department of Agriculture by correspondence. It was a 

 notable fact, he said, that although two North American ento 

 mologists, namely, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell and Prof. C. H. 

 Tyler Townsend, occupied official positions in Kingston, Jamaica, 

 the Department of Agriculture received only a few species of 

 Coleoptera from them. 



Since the Spanish-American War by far the greatest part of 

 the collection has been added by the parties sent out by the De 

 partment of Agriculture for making certain investigations of an 

 economic nature. Most notable among them are the expeditions 

 of Mr. August Busck to Porto Rico and Cuba and of Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz to Cuba. Two other expeditions, however, made con 

 siderable additions to the Museum collection, namely, that of 

 Messrs. Stejneger and Richmond to Porto Rico and that of 

 Messrs. Palmer and Riley to Cuba. The expenses of these two 

 expeditions were defrayed by the appropriation for the Pan- 

 American Exposition. 



Mr. Schwarz then presented an enumeration of the material 

 in the Museum, arranged according to the different islands. He 

 referred to the works of Dr. Juan Gundlach on the faunae of 

 Cuba and Porto Rico, and complained that these works were so 

 little known and so litttle referred to by entomologists although 

 they contained many original notes on special localities, mode of 

 occurrence and early stages, especially in the Lepidoptera. 



As to the insect fauna of the Bahama Islands, Mr. Schwarz 

 referred to the almost entire lack of literature. There is, how 

 ever, in the National Museum, a small collection of Bahama 



