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CENSUS OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



January 1, 1915. 



Species. Specimens. 



Chelonia 36 233 



Crocodilia 7 45 



Lacertilia 22 201 



Ophidia 40 210 



Amphibia 59 325 



Total 164 1,014 



SUMMARY OF COLLECTIONS. 



A census of the animals in the Zoological Park, taken Janu- 

 ary 1, 1915, is as follows: 



Species. Specimens. 



Mammals 204 586 



Birds 811 2,753 



Reptiles 105 689 



Amphibians 59 325 



Total 1,179 4,353 



DEPARTMENT OF INSECTS. 

 Raymond L. Ditmars. Curator. 



We were particularly fortunate to have started breeding 

 experiments among the foreign insects during the past year, as 

 the European war has quite eliminated any possibility of ob- 

 taining Old World specimens the coming spring. We have bred 

 the curious walking-leaf and walking-stick insects, and carefully 

 preserved their eggs for hatching in the spring and early sum- 

 mer. Our stock of foreign cocoons is in good shape, and the 

 insect collection is gradually becoming a self-supporting exhibit. 

 The sale of mounted butterflies and moths in glass-sealed tablets 

 has fully covered the cost of our collecting trips for local speci- 

 mens. 



Among the curious insects and their allies exhibited the 

 past year — some of the material lasting through the winter 

 months — has been a very remarkable series of the leaf and stick 

 insects from Europe and the Indo-Malayan regions, the rhinoc- 

 eros beetle of Africa, the Egyptian scarab, the luminous beetle 



