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to other animals, and the exceedingly large number of known species 
give them zoological prominence. Their relations to the pollenization 
of plants and their destructiveness to vegetation give them both 
botanical and economic importance. Their relation to the spread of 
disease and the annoying habits of some of them have a direct bearing 
‘on the comfort and happiness of the human race. 
From the ethnological pomt of view the position of insects is a 
minor one. They have little importance as food, except the grass- 
hoppers, etc., during seasons of abundance. Among native peoples 
of the lower Colorado Valley insects have acquired considerable relig- 
ious and mythical significance, especially the ants, but this does not 
require a knowledge of many species or a very minute discrimination 
between species. Among the Pueblos they have no such significance. 
A great number of insect species have. been recorded from the Jemez 
Plateau and Santa Fe. There are doubtless hundreds of others unre- 
corded, including many now undescribed and unknown to science. 
As most of the smaller species are distinguished from one another by 
characters which may be studied only with a good lens or a micro- 
scope, it is obvious that in most cases the Indians can not distin- 
guish the species or even the genera. However, the larger and more 
conspicuously marked species are likely given definite native names. 
It would be an interesting contribution to the psychology of the 
Indians for someone with sufficient entomological training to investi- 
gate their knowledge of and ideas concerning the insects and the 
extent and accuracy of their discrimination, including the habits of 
insects and their relations to plants. 
Time did not permit us to enter into this field except in an incidental 
way in connection with the ethnobotanical work. Our collections 
of insects were accidentally almost wholly destroyed in transit, with- 
out having been determined or recorded, so that we can not even 
give an account of the species found. We found many species of 
beetles, ants, bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies, and other insects. 
It does not seem important in this report to list the species of 
insects recorded from the region by Ashmead, Banks, Cockerell, 
Coquillett, Dunning, Fall, Fox, Gillette, Hagen, Holland, Howard, 
Hulst, Mead, Scudder, Thomas, Townsend, Uhler, Ulke, and Wheeler. 
More than 30 of Prof. Cockerell’s papers report species from this 
region. Ulke has recorded 56 species of Coleoptera (beetles), and 
Uhler has recorded 34 species of Hemiptera (plant-lice, scale insects, 
true bugs, etc.) from San Ildefonso, Taos, Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and 
Tierra Amarilla. Hagen recorded three species of Neuroptera from 
San Ildefonso, Tierra Amarilla, and Taos. Most of the other records 
are from Santa Fe. 
Work along this line could be easily done by persons with very 
limited knowledge of entomology. They could collect the insects 
