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was used. As matters stand, this pamphlet is of little scientific 
value (except for specific localities mentioned by Gundlach), 
since the families, genera and species are listed without any 
systematic arrangement. If a little circumspection had been 
used in editing the pamphlet for publication it would have been 
an excellent check-list of the animals found in Cuba by Gund- 
lach. As to the insects, the Orders Diptera and Coleoptera 
are not included in the pamphlet, and Mr. Schwarz was in- 
formed by the authorities of the " Institute" that there were no 
funds to continue and complete the publication of the "Cata- 
logo." The date on the title page of this pamphlet is mislead- 
ing, as are also the dates on the other works on the Cuban fauna 
by Dr. Gundlach, published in Havana" by the Academy of 
Sciences or otherwise, the title pages, with the date, being al- 
ways printed as page i , while the publication of the body of the 
volumes extended over several subsequent years. 
Mr. Barber stated that a collection of land shells from Nas- 
sau, Bahama Islands, received a few days ago by the Division 
of Molluscs in the National Museum, was found to be swarming 
with a small dipteron. The matter was called to his attention, 
and upon visiting the collection he recognized the flies, by their 
erratic, jerking movements, as belonging to the family Phoridge. 
The snails were dead, but not wholly dried up, and there was 
considerable odor about them. He noticed that although some 
of the flies flew readily (the cTc?), others (the ? 9 ) were wing- 
less. He collected a number of both forms in different stages, 
and these were determined by Mr. Coquillett as belonging to 
Puliciphora occidentalis Melander and Brues, originally de- 
scribed, about a year ago, under the genus Stethopathus, from 
three $ specimens collected at Wood's Hole, Mass., at a place 
where burrows of Halictus were abundant. It was then in- 
ferred that the flies had some symbiotic relation with these 
bees. A winged cT was taken at the same time by the authors 
just mentioned, but was thought to belong to some other spe- 
cies on account of differences in the head. Mr. Coquillett told 
Mr. Barber that the head in the cT cT collected on the snails dif- 
fered considerably from that of the $ $ , and he believed that 
the specimen obtained by Brues and Melander was the true cT 
