22 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



Eesearch and Development Command. Received by transfer from 

 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were 1,411 bird skins and 6 al- 

 coholic specimens from Formosa. 



Noteworthy collections received in the division of reptiles and 

 amphibians include 19 salamanders from Alabama, donated by Leslie 

 Uubricht. A fine series of Virginia amphibians, collected by the late 

 Walter B. Newman, was received as a gift from his mother, Mrs. 

 Helen B. Newman. By transfer from the U.S. Army Medical Re- 

 search Unit, tlirough Lt. Col. H. J. Baker, came 29 snakes, mostly 

 from Selangor, an area from which the Musemn has had few speci- 

 mens. A series of 28 Venezuelan reptiles and amphibians collected 

 for the Museum by Dr. C. O. Handley, Jr., and D. L. Rhymer contains 

 some frogs that are valuable for comparison with Colombian material 

 now being studied. Another valuable addition to the amphibian 

 group from Thailand are 39 specimens collected in South Vietnam 

 by Bernard R. Feinstein. 



The division of fishes accessioned a large collection consisting of 

 2,702 specimens from the Fourth Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Ex- 

 pedition. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through Harvey R. 

 BuUis, Jr., and Daniel M. Cohen, contributed another large important 

 collection, totaling 1,114 fishes. Dr. Eugenie Clark, of the Cape Haze 

 Marine Laboratory of Florida, and Dr. H. Steinitz, of the Hebrew 

 University of Jerusalem, donated 778 marine fishes collected in the 

 Red Sea by Dr. Clark ; these specimens are very valuable because the 

 Red Sea area is the type locality of numerous kinds of fishes, some of 

 which are endemic. Dr. Hurst Shoemaker, of the American Univer- 

 sity of Beirut, donated 361 fishes from Lebanon. Among the valuable 

 collections received for identification were 453 Formosan fishes 

 through Dr. Robert E. Kuntz, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 

 No. 2, and 728 specimens from Africa and South America from Dr. 

 Herbert R. Axelrod, of Tropical Fish Hobbyist Publications, Jersey 

 City. 



A very valuable accession acquired by the division of insects is the 

 Jolm C. Lutz collection of Hemiptera, consisting of 87,371 specimens. 

 Particularly rich in Neotropical species, this assemblage contains 668 

 types of various kinds, including holotypes of 15 species. Another 

 very important accession is the N. Baranov collection of Palaearctic 

 tachnid flies, consisting of 4,611 specimens representing 305 genera, 

 68 of which are new to the collections, and 812 species, of which 499 

 were not previously available for study in the Museum. Other notable 

 contributions include : 3,306 miscellaneous specimens from North and 

 South Ajnerica, donated by Dr. Charles P. Alexander; 2,915 Pla- 

 waiian insects presented by A. J. Ford, of Honolulu ; 2,938 miscella- 

 neous specimens from Pakistan, contributed by Dr. J. Maldonado 

 Capriles; 2,127 Lepidoptera from Wisconsin given by William E. 



