22 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



tral America and the United States from Dr. John Kingsolver, Insect 

 Identification and Parasite Introduction Research Branch, U.S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture; and 1,100 Mexican beetles from Dr. Alfred 

 B. Lau, Mexican Indian Training Center, Cordoba, Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico. 



As a result of field work conducted by members of the Smithsonian 

 staff the following were acquired : 1,100 miscellaneous South Ameri- 

 can beetles from Mrs. Doris H. Blake and Dr. Doris M. Cochran ; 300 

 scarab beetles from South Carolina obtained by O. L. Cartwright; 

 and 35,G00 miscellaneous Mexican and North American beetles col- 

 lected by Dr. Paul J. Spangler. 



The division of Hemiptera received 81,757 specimens in 100 acces- 

 sions during the year. The most important acquisition of the year 

 was the J. Douglas Hood collection of Thysanoptera (thrips), which 

 contains 1,055 holotypes and 11,203 paratypes of Hood and other 

 workers. The transfer of the very important collection of North 

 American fleas from the Rocky Mountain Laboratory of the National 

 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Health, 

 Education, and Welfare, was initiated through the efforts of Dr. Wil- 

 liam L. Jellison, retired, of that Institute. To date 12,780 carefully 

 prepared slides from this collection have been received. The Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography, through the cooperation of Dr. Martin 

 W. Johnson and H. George Snyder, presented over 1,300 specimens 

 of the marine water-strider genus Halohates. Other important acces- 

 sions are : 1,144 ants from the Nevada Atomic Test Site through the 

 cooperation of Dr. Donald M. Allred, Atomic Energy Commission; 

 500 Australian ants from Prof. B. B. Lowery, St. Ignatius College, 

 Sydney, Australia; and 215 South American ants from Dr. K. W. 

 Cooper, Hanover, N.H. Other Hymenoptera, 130 named European 

 wasps from W. S. Pulawski, University of A¥roclawskiego, Warsaw, 

 Poland ; 486 North American wasps from Dr. K. V. Krombein, Arling- 

 ton, Va. ; 157 South American velvet ants from Dr. Osvaldo H. Casal, 

 Institute Nacional de Microbiologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; 443 Old 

 World cercerid wasps from Dr. H. A. Scullen, Oregon State Univer- 

 sity, Corvallis, Oreg. ; 450 North American and Russian chalcid-flies 

 from C. D. F. Miller, Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 

 Canada; and 100 European chalcid-flies from Dr. A. Hoffer, Prague, 

 Czechoslovakia. 



The division of Lepidoptera ^ received 72,324 specimens as the re- 

 sult of field activity of staff members and cooperating agencies. Sig- 

 nificant contributions made by staff members include 9,115 Mexican 

 moths collected by Drs. Don R. Davis and W. Donald Duckworth; 

 1,280 butterflies from east/em United States collected by William D. 



1 See footnote on page 66. 



