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R. A. Philippi published a list of Chilean Diptera in the Verhandlung 

 d'K.-K. Zool. Bot. Ges. of Vienna. In 1886 a catalogue of the Chilean 

 Lepidoptera was published at Santiago, and in 1887 F. Philippi (a 

 son of R. A. Philippi, resident in Chile) published in the Annals of 

 the University of Chile, Volume 71, a catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Chile. It is interesting to note, as an indication of the advance of 

 knowledge, that Gay's original list of Coleoptera comprised only 891 

 species, whereas Philippi's later list mentioned 2,247. 



In 1869 3-1^ English naturalist, Edwyn C. Reed (born in Bristol, 

 November 7, 1841 ; died in Concepcion, Chile, November 5, 1911) 

 went to Chile and took a position as Entomologist in the National 

 Museum. He built a small museum at Los Baiios de Cauquenes in 

 1875, and in 1878 began the organization of a museum at Valparaiso. 

 He then became Professor of Natural History and Physical Geog- 

 raphy at the Military and Naval Academy, holding this position for 

 seven years and then, on account of his health, moved up into the 

 mountains. In 1902 he was made Director of the Museum of Con- 

 cepcion, where he worked until his death. Mr. Reed published many 

 papers on entomology and corresponded with the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology at Washington from 1893 until 1907. His work was very 

 largely taxonomic, and only occasionally economic. In 1902 he pub- 

 lished an article on the invasion of grasshoppers into Chile. This 

 report was an official one, and at that time it was expected that a 

 large appropriation for grasshopper work would be made. But the 

 emergency passed. 



In that year Mr. Reed sent a large collection of insects to the 

 United States for exhibition in the Chilean department of the Buffalo 

 ExixDsition. Through some misunderstanding, however, the collection 

 was never exhibited at Buffalo, and it remained in New York during 

 the period that the World's Fair was open. Eventually, through the 

 courtesy of Don Enrique Budge, the chairman of the Chilean exhi- 

 bition committee, it was forwarded to Washington where it was 

 incorporated in the insect collections of the National Museum. It 

 contains very many interesting forms. Among the many subjects 

 in entomology that especially interested Mr. Reed was the very 

 strange subterranean scale-insect genus Margarodes. He studied one 

 of the Chilean species and published about it. 



Before he arrived in Chile in 1869, Mr. Reed had spent five years 

 in Brazil collecting and studying. He had three years of intermittent 

 fever and a bad attack of yellow fever. He returned to England 

 in 1868 badly broken down and was advised to take a long sea trip 



