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tries.* Among Hymenoptera, bumble-bees, saw-flies, and many other 
families seem to be wanting. In Lepidoptera, the fritillary butter- 
flies, theclas, lyczenas, skippers, sesias, and various other families 
have not been reported; bombycid moths are very rare. Mantispids 
have not been recorded. Among Coleoptera, not half the common 
families are yet known. Neither ephemerids, stone-flies, nor white- 
ants are known,t and caddis-flies are very rare. Of Hemiptera, very 
few families are reported. Among Orthoptera, the phasmids and 
mantids are each represented only by a single rare species, and the 
grasshoppers and crickets by very few. The great order, Diptera, 
has been much neglected by collectors, and very few of the numer- 
ous species have been studied. 
* During both my visits, 1898 and 1901, collections of insects were made by 
me and my parties, and notes on many of them were made, but as our time was 
mainly devoted to the marine zodlogy and geology, no special efforts could be 
made to make large collections of insects. As the building which we used as a 
laboratory in 1901 was used in part for storage of grain, meal, vegetables, etc., 
many domestic insects were naturally observed; others were taken around the 
lamps at night. Many were found under stones, while looking for land shells, 
ete. But no collecting was done with insect nets, nor by beating the bushes, 
grass, etc. If this could have been done the number of species would have been 
much larger. Moreover, our collections were chiefly made in March, April, 
and May, before most of the insects had emerged. Unfortunately, the specialists 
to whom part of our undetermined species were sent have not been able to 
report upon them in season for this paper, so that a considerable number that 
we obtained cannot be included. Mr. Samuel Henshaw has given me the names 
of a few Orthoptera and Coleoptera; to Mr. H. G. Dyar, I am indebted for 
the determination of several moths, and many useful notes on their synonymy, 
and Mr, Nathan Banks has kindly determined some of the Scale-insects, ete. 
Mr. O. Heidemann has determined several Hemiptera, and D. W. Coquillett a 
number of Diptera. Other members of the entomological staff of the U. S. 
Dept. of Agriculture have also determined certain species, as noted in each case. 
Mr. T. G. Gosling, of Hamilton, sent me, in 1901, a small but valuable collec- 
tion of the summer insects. During the past summer Miss Victoria Hayward 
has sent by mail several small lots, which contained some interesting additions 
to the fauna, as will be noticed in the following list. She also sent me some 
notes on insects made in former years from which I have quoted several 
observations. Recently Mr. Geo. A. Bishop, superintendent of the Public Gar- 
den, has sent me some valuable notes on the occurrence of a number of insects 
injurious to vegetation, especially Scale-insects. These I have inserted, with 
credit to him in each case. Mr, Louis Mowbray also sent, Oct. 31st, a small 
but interesting lot, adding a number of species to the fauna. 
+ After the above had been put in type, a small, winged White Ant was sent 
to me by mail by Miss V. Hayward. (See pl. xcix, fig. 16.) 
