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type specimens of mammals, exclusive of cetaceans, in the collections 

 of the Museum, xls photographs of the types are to })e prepared, this 

 catalogue has not yet been published. It records the presence of type 

 specimens, or type material, of 469 species and subspecies. (This is 

 exclusive of the type specimens in the collection of the Biological 

 Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, which are probably at least 

 as many.) Dr. Lyon has also pursued investigations relative to the 

 osteology of the rabbits, and published two brief notes on other mam- 

 mals. The Head Curator completed his comparison of North American 

 and European species of whalebone whales, and toward the close of 

 the year submitted a manuscript of about 1,000 pages, with 50 plates. 

 He also prepared papers on Dr. Philippi's species of Chilean porpoises, 

 on a killer whale stranded on the coast of Maine, and on a species of 

 ProdeJphin us obtained at Honolulu; and notes on the name of the com 

 mon porpoise of the genus Turslop.s, and on the occurrence of the 

 pollack whale, BalabiiopteTa horealis^ in American waters. 



Doctor Ashmead continued his study of the classification of the 

 Chalcid tlies, which was in course of publication by the Carnegie 

 Museum at the close of the year, and a series of papers on the wasps 

 of the groups Vespoidea, Proctotrypoidea, and Cynipoidea, was pub- 

 lished in the Canadian Entomologist and other entomological journals. 

 He continued work on his monographs of North America Braconidse, a 

 Philippine Hymcnoptera, Japanese Hymenoptera, and also a catalogue 

 of North American Hymenoptera. Mr. D. W. Coquillett was occupied 

 in identifying and arranging the Diptera, and completed a revision of 

 the genera of the family Empididre. A paper by him describing four 

 new genera and U4 new species of North America diptera appeared in 

 the Museum Proceedings in September, 1902. Mr. Nathan Banks 

 published 16 papers on spiders and on other subjects of a more general 

 character. A paper on dragon flies, and one on ant lions, by Mr. R. P. 

 Currie, were published by the Entomological Society of Washington 

 during the year. Mr. Currie continued work on a catalogue of 

 North American Neuropteroid insects, and on a monograph of the ant 

 lions. Mr. August Busck published 2 papers on the codling moth, 

 and one on a new species of the family Iponomentidae. His revision 

 of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae was published by the 

 Museum during the year. The Museum Proceedings for the year also 

 contained a paper by Dr. H. G, Dyar on the larva of moths from 

 Colorado, and an additional section of Dr. John B. Smith's monograph 

 of the moths of the family Noctuidae. Dr. J. E. Benedict published 

 descriptions of new species of Galatheidae, and completed a revision of 

 the genus Lejndojxi., and descriptions of other new Albuneidae. He 

 also engaged in the study of the anonmran crabs from Japan and the 

 Hawaiian Islands, collected by the xUhafross^ some new crabs of the 

 familv Dromidae, and some interesting annelids. Miss M. J. Rathbun 



