100 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



In the division of reptiles and batrachians, 6,310 newly identified 

 specimens were incorporated in the collection. Dry preparations 

 were added to the turtle collection as follows: 6 skeletons, 121 skulls, 

 59 shells; 71 study skins were also prepared, and a number of other 

 reptile skins and skeletons made. 



The division of fishes, during the vacancy caused by B. A. Bean's 

 retirement on June 30, 1932, was ably cared for by E. D. Reid, under 

 the immediate supervision of the head curator, until Dr. G. S. Myers, 

 the new assistant curator, took charge. The large collection, mostly 

 of Albatross fishes, for many years at Stanford University for study 

 by the late David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert, was 

 packed and forwarded to Washington by Dr. Myers. 



Dr. J. M. Aldrich, curator of insects, whose work was confined to 

 Diptera, considerably improved the arrangement of several families. 

 Dr. Alan Stone transferred all the mosquito collection to standard 

 museum insect drawers and metal-covered cases and further rear- 

 ranged the family Tabanidae. In the Coleoptera, H. A. Barber 

 rearranged and expanded special groups and made a preliminary 

 rearrangement of Philippine hispids. Dr. M. W. Blackman rear- 

 ranged the Museum collection of 22 genera of the family Scolytidae. 

 Dr. A. G. Boving continued to supervise the coleopterous larval 

 collection. Nearly 3,000 jars of this material have been prepared 

 and filled in the past 2 years. L. L. Buchanan studied and rearranged 

 specimens of Hylobius and Lepidophorus, of the carabid genus 

 Monqferonia, of the long series of granary weevils of the genus 

 Sitophilus, and of the coffee-bean weevU. In addition he selected 

 a synoptic series of the species of the genus Calendra and identified 

 and arranged more than 3,000 North American specimens of the 

 weevil genus Apion. Dr. E. A. Chapin made progress in arrange- 

 ment of the scarabaeid beetles of the subfamilies Melolonthinae, 

 Dynastinae, and Cetoniinae. W. S. Fisher completed rearrangement 

 of the Mexican, Central American, and South American species of 

 Cerambycidae and rearranged and to some extent classified the 

 Oriental Cerambycidae. 



In Lepidoptera the specialists proceeded with the incorporation of 

 the great Owen collection into the general Museum series. Foster 

 H. Benjamin consolidated all the North American Noctuidae of the 

 subfamily Catocalinae, which now occupies 67 large drawers and 36 

 standard museum drawers. A similar rearrangement for the North 

 American Noctuidae of the subfamily Agrotinae was partially com- 

 pleted. August Busck completed the incorporation of the Micro- 

 lepidoptera from the Barnes collection into the general Museum series. 

 Carl Heinrich added the Barnes collection material of the subfamilies 

 Calleriinae and Macro thecinae to the general collection. Dr. William 

 Schaus was active in expanding and rearranging the exotic Macro- 



