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insects ever brought from the region. It will enable entomol- 

 ogists to form an idea of the rich field that awaits them in this 

 vast northern possession of the United States. 



The collection embraces in all more than 5,000 pinned in- 

 sects, too-ether with a considerable series of Arachnida, 

 M3'^riopoda, and larval forms preserved in alcohol. The exact 

 number of species represented cannot be stated at the date of 

 writing, as not all the reports are completed, but the total will 

 not fall far short of 900, distributed in the several groups as 

 follows: Arachnida, 53; Myriopoda, 10; Thysanura, 10; 

 Neuropteroids, 32; Odonata, 10; Aphididas, 4 ; Psyllidas, 3 ; 

 Jassidae, 10; Heteroptera, 14; Orthoptera, i ; Coleoptera, 159; 

 Diptera, 276; Rhophalocera, 12; Heterocera, 60; Apoidea, 

 12; Sphegoidea, 6 ; Vespoidea, 3; Formicoidea, 4; Parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, 150; Tenthredinoidea, 56. Of the above, up- 

 wards of 200 species are new to science, and of the remainder 

 a large number are either new to the North American Continent 

 or not yet recorded from Alaska. 



The collections were made between the first of June and the 

 first of August, 1899. Except a small number of specimens ob- 

 tained in British Columbia, all of the material was collected in 

 Alaska. Most of the stops were made in going northward and 

 westward, a few on the return journey. Collections were made 

 at the following localities, which for convenience are arranged 

 in geographic sequence, with date of visit : Fox Point, July 

 26-28 ; Metlakahtla, June 4 ; Farragut Bay, June 5 ; Taku 

 Inlet, June 6 ; Muir Inlet, June 9-12 ; Juneau, July 25 ; Sitka, 

 June 14-16; Yakutat Bay, June 18-22; Virgin Bay, Prince 

 William Sound, June 25-26 ; Orca, Prince William Sound, 

 June 27; Saldovia, Kenai Peninsula, July 21: Kukak Bay, 

 Alaska Peninsula, June 29-July 5 ; Kadiak, July 20 ; Popof 

 Island, July 7-17. 



Upon the return of the Expedition the collections were prop- 

 erly labeled and assorted into groups, after which they were 

 transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Division of En- 

 tomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Curator 

 of Insects U. S. National Museum, for distribution to specialists 

 for study and report. It is expected that these reports, twenty 



