52 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1922. 



China, many of them representing species new to our collection, 

 taken by Arthur de C. Sowerby and presented by Kobert S. Clark; 

 21 specimens from China, a gift from the National Southeastern 

 University, Nanking, China, through C. Ping; 3 fishes, new to the 

 coast of Uruguay, presented by Florentino Felippone, Montevideo, 

 Uruguay. 



Insects. — The accessions to the division of insects are characterized 

 by the curator as greatly surpassing in scientific value those " of any 

 previous year for some time back." This happy condition is chiefly 

 due to the two accessions already mentioned, the one of about 100,000 

 specimens obtained by Doctor Mann in South America, and the other 

 of about 10,000 obtained by the curator himself in Alaska. The 

 South American collection included all orders; that from Alaska 

 " consisted mainly of Diptera and Hymenoptera, with a fair number 

 of Hemiptera." Part of the F. J. Dyer collection from Honduras, 

 comprising about 2,700 specimens of all orders, is another note- 

 worthy accession. The Dyer collection " was originally sent to the 

 American Museum of Natural History for mounting, under an ar- 

 rangement by which we were to receive one-half. This has lately 

 been consummated. The collection is of miscellaneous character, 

 but in part of decided value." Other important accessions are a 

 named collection of New England Diptera, comprising 390 species 

 received from the Boston Society of Natural History; 1,468 speci- 

 mens of Indian Hymenoptera, obtained from Col. C. G. Nourse, 

 of London; 512 species of North American Lepidoptera, in part a 

 gift, in part an exchange, from William Barnes, Decatur, 111. ; sev- 

 eral lots of mosquitoes from the Canal Zone, in all, about 3,400 speci- 

 mens, sent by Dr. J. B. Shropshire, sanitary officer at Ancon, Pan- 

 ama; about 1,600 mosquitoes from Doctor Alfaro, San Jose, Costa 

 Rica; Australian insects to the number of 465 received from the 

 Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, North 

 Queensland, through Dr. Gerald F. Hill. 



Marine invertebrates. — Five accessions are designated by the 

 curator as worthy of particular notice: 1, More than 1,000 micro- 

 scopic slides of Pacific sponges, as well as the personal slide collec- 

 tion of Dr. R. von Lendenfeld including 71 slides of European 

 sponges; 2, from Dr. J. A. Cushman, Sharon, Mass., 325 slides (1,000 

 specimens) of foraminifera from the north coast of Jamaica; 3, 

 from Arthur de C. Sowerby (presented by Robert S. Clark), 50 speci- 

 mens of marine invertebrates, 19 lots of Crustacea, and 4 lots of 

 coelenterates, all from China; 4, about 100 specimens of crustacea 

 from Curasao, West Indies, collected by Dr. C. J. van der Horst, Zo- 

 oloogisches Laboratorium, Amsterdam, Holland (gift) ; and 5, from 

 Prof. Max M. Ellis, University of Missouri, 350 specimens of cray- 



