CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 5 



son's classification and list as a guide, and have included all the species 

 marked by him as occurring in New Jersey, as well as those so dis- 

 tributed that their occurrence in the State is certain. Mr. M. S. Crane 

 furnished me with a very good list of his captures, and, supplemented 

 by my own experience, this added to the accuracy of the list. Finally, 

 by the courtesy of the American Entomological Society, I was enabled 

 to examine the E. T. Cresson collection of Hymenoptera, from which 

 I gleaned many New Jersey species, and Mr. Geo. B. Cresson, the 

 curator of the Society, kindly gave me a list of specimens recently 

 taken near Westville, all of which aided in completing the list. 



In Coleoptera, the Henshaw check list has been my guide. Messrs. 

 Charles Liebeck and Henry W. Wenzel, of Philadelphia, have fur- 

 nished me most excellent annotated lists of the species taken by them. 

 The Newark list was very full in some families and forms an im- 

 portant part of the record. In the Carabidce, a list of the species 

 taken near New York by Mr. F. G. Schaupp, which I aided in com- 

 piling some years ago, furnished many species. In the families of 

 rove and water beetles [Staphylinidce, Dytiscidce, Hydrophilidce, &c.), 

 all the general lists were poor, and as my own collection, now in the 

 United States National Museum, contained many species from this 

 State, I obtained, through the courtesy of Mr. Howard, acting for 

 Professor Riley, a list of these species in the National Museum. 



Mr. M. L. Linell, Professor Riley's aide in the museum, also kindly 

 furnished me with a partial list of his collections in New Jersey, and 

 these were very valuable. 



Dr. John Hamilton, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, had passed a short 

 season in September at Brigantine Beach for some years past, and his 

 list of captures was of extreme interest. Mr. C. H. Roberts, who 

 makes rather a specialty of aquatic Coleoptera, furnished me with a 

 list of the New Jersey specimens in his collection, which largely sup- 

 plemented the other lists. Mr. W. Julich, of New York, gave a most 

 excellent list of Rhynchophora taken by himself. Mr. Fred. C. Paul- 

 mier, of Madison, N. J., furnished me a list of captures, which, though 

 small in extent, was still valuable as adding facts in the distribution 

 of some species. A few days spent in collecting at Anglesea, near Cape 

 May, in company with Messrs. E. A. Schwarz, of Washington, and 

 H. W. Wenzel, of Philadelphia, produced a large number of species 

 which were kindly determined and listed by Mr. Schwarz. Finally, 

 to the courtesy of Dr. Horn I owe an opportunity of examining his 



