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tries.* Among Hymenoptera, bumble-bees, saw-flies, and many other 

 families seem to be wanting. In Lepidoptera, the fritillary butter- 

 flies, theclas, lycamas, skippers, sesias, and various other families 

 have not been reported; bombycid moths are very rare. Mantispids 

 have not been recorded. Among Coleoptera, not half the common 

 families are yet known. Neither ephemerids, stone-flies, nor white- 

 ants are known, f and caddis-flies are very rare. Of Hemiptera, very 

 few families are reported. Among Orthoptera, the phasmids and 

 mantids are each represented only by a single rare species, and the 

 grasshoppers and crickets by very few. The great order, Diptera, 

 has been much neglected by collectors, and very few of the numer- 

 ous species have been studied. 



* During both my visits, 1898 and 1901, collections of insects were made by 

 me and my parties, and notes on many of them were made, but as our time was 

 mainly devoted to the marine zoology and geology, no special efforts could be 

 made to make large collections of insects. As the building which we used as a 

 laboratory in 1901 was used in part for storage of grain, meal, vegetables, etc., 

 many domestic insects were naturally observed; others were taken around the 

 lamps at night.. Many were found under stones, while looking for land shells, 

 etc. But no collecting was done with insect nets, nor by beating the bushes, 

 grass, etc. If this could have been done the number of species would have been 

 much larger. Moreover, our collections were chiefly made in March, April, 

 and May, before most of the insects had emerged. Unfortunately, the specialists 

 to whom part of our undetermined species were sent have not been able to 

 report upon them in season for this paper, so that a considerable number that 

 we obtained cannot be included. Mr. Samuel Henshaw has given me the names 

 of a few Orthoptera and Coleoptera; to Mr. H. G. Dyar, I am indebted for 

 the determination of several moths, and many useful notes on their synonymy, 

 and Mr. Nathan Banks has kindly determined some of the Scale-insects, etc. 

 Mr. O. Heidemann has determined several Hemiptera. and D. W. Coquillett a 

 number of Diptera. Other members of the entomological staff of the U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture have also determined certain species, as noted in each case. 



Mr. T. G. Gosling, of Hamilton, sent me, in 1901, a small but valuable collec- 

 tion of the summer insects. During the past summer Miss Victoria Hayward 

 has sent by mail several small lots, which contained some interesting additions 

 to the fauna, as will be noticed in the following list. She also sent me some 

 notes on insects made in former years from which I have quoted several 

 observations. Eecently Mr. Geo. A. Bishop, superintendent of the Public Gar- 

 den, has sent me some valuable notes on the occurrence of a number of insects 

 injurious to vegetation, especially Scale-insects. These I have inserted, with 

 credit to him in each case. Mr. Louis Mowbray also sent, Oct. 31st, a small 

 but interesting lot, adding a number of species to the fauna. 



f After the above had been put in type, a small, winged White Ant was sent 

 to me by mail by Miss V. Hayward. (See pi. xcix, fig. 16.) 



