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Odonata enumerated and described by Gundlach. In the major- 

 ity of cases, the name of the species is, as in the Contribucion, 

 followed by Gundlach's collecting number in parentheses (as he 

 explains on p. 14 of his volume). To this I have added the page 

 number of the Contribucion, the date of publication of the respec- 

 tive pliego of the Anales of the Havana Academy and the usual 

 name of the species at the present time. With few exceptions, 

 I have omitted the references given by Gundlach to previous 

 authors. His statements of the localities for each species in 

 Cuba and in Porto Rico, but not elsewhere, have been reproduced, 

 as well as such items of his descriptions as seem to require com- 

 ment. These last are based on comparisons with specimens 

 which, as far as possible, are those which have been quoted in the 

 Neuroptera volume of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, as by 

 this means a uniformity of specific identity with that work has 

 been sought. These specimens, unless otherwise stated, are in 

 the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. Others are in the collections of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoologj^ at Cambridge, Massachusetts. To the authorities 

 of these institutions, I am indebted for the privilege of studying 

 their material. 



ENTOMOLOGIA CUBANA. Pages 3-4 



XOTAS PARA LA ExTOMOLOGIA CUBAXA, SEGUX OBSERVACIOXES 

 PROPIAS DURAXTE CUAREXTA Y SEIS AXOS. 



Prologo al Tomo IL 



En los seis Ordenes de Insectos que faltan c^ue tratar, me veo 

 obligado a camVjiar el modo con el cual he redactadoel Orden de los 

 Lepidopteros, pues se conoce en muy pocos casos la transf ormacion 

 y las costumbres de las especies. Tampoco he querido dar, como 

 en los Lepidopteros, una descripcion corta hecha por ml en \dsta 

 de los ejemplares de mi coleccion; sino he preferido dar la diag- 

 nosis hecha por los autores de las mismas especies, traducida al 

 espanol, y solamente cuando no he podido tener la obra corre- 

 spondiente, he trazado yo mismo una descripcion, usando el 

 ejemplar de mi coleccion. Lo mismo que en el Orden Lepidop- 

 teros, he indicado algunas particularidades observadas en las 

 costumbres, sea de las familias, generos 6 especies. He indicado 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLV. 



