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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1911. 



Agriculture, Department of — Contd. 

 some years ago by the Bureau of 

 Entomology (52057) ; 57 named 

 specimens of Coleoptera and 3 of 

 Neuroptera from Europe (52062) ; 55 

 insects named by A. L. Montandon 

 (522S8) ; 6 specimens of Conotro- 

 chelus representing 2 species 

 (52322) ; about 700 insects collected 

 by L. E. Ricksecker at San Diego, 

 Cuba (52356) ; specimen of Eleodes 

 suturalis (52358) ; 7 packages and 3 

 boxes of insects collected by E. A. 

 Schwarz and August Busck in Pana- 

 ma (52432; 52460); 4 parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, types of Habracytus 

 piercei (52448) ; 80 bees (67 be- 

 longing to the genus Diadasia and 

 13 to Perdita, the latter being the 

 types of 6 species described by 

 Prof. Cockerell) (52463; 52667); 

 type of a strepsipteron, Triozocera 

 texana (52496) ; 10 specimens of 

 the chalcid, Hunterellus hookeri 

 (52508) ; collections made by the 

 Division of Forest Insect Investiga- 

 tions, numbering probably 800,000 

 specimens (52555) ; 2 lizards, a frog, 

 a snake, 3 crabs, 5 boxes and 3 

 packages of insects collected by A. 

 Busck in Panama (52598; 52856; 

 52S81) ; 13 specimens of Conoscus 

 ovipennis, and 1 specimen of Blap- 

 stinus sp. (526S1) ; 2 wasp nests 

 collected by A. Busck, one of them 

 containing wasps (52708) ; 3 speci- 

 mens of Anthonomus n. sp. ? from 

 the Hardenberg collection, Cran- 

 moor, Wis. (52724) ; about 500 speci- 

 mens of Lachhosterna, representing 

 11 species, and a few other beetles 

 from the brown tail moth trap 

 light experiments at Wilmington, 

 Mass. (52743) ; 10 specimens of 

 Spintheroplyta ( Colaspoides) ma- 

 crocephalus from Brownsville, Tex., 

 collected by M. M. High (52744) ; 

 10 specimens, representing 2 species, 

 of isopods (52761) ; 20 specimens of 

 the blistering-beetle, Oxacis n. sp. 

 from M. Grabham (52769) ; 12 

 specimens of Anthononvopsis mixtus. 

 bred on blossoms of wild goose 

 plum by Dr. T. J. Headley, at Man- 



Agriculture, Department of — Contd. 

 hattan, Kans. (52779) ; 6 specimens 

 of Ixodes, being the types of 2 new 

 species and 2 new varieties (52786) ; 

 52 insects, chiefly beetles, from Rou- 

 mania and other localities, mostly 

 determined by A. L. Montandon 

 (52831) ; specimens of galls from 

 about 21 species of plants collected 

 by Frank N. Meyer (52897) ; 56 

 packages of insects collected by E. A. 

 Schwarz in Panama between Janu- 

 ary and July, 1910 (52935). (See 

 under Ed. Foster, Takeshi Fukai, 

 Prof. C. P. Gillette, and M. A. 

 Yothers. ) 



Bureau of Plant Industry: Speci- 

 men of Echinocactus collected in 

 Texas by F. L. Lewton (51783) ; 2 

 specimens of Hesperonia califormca, 

 collected in California by Mrs. Ag- 

 nes Chase (51806) ; 3 living speci- 

 mens of Cactacese collected in Colo- 

 rado by H. L. Shautz (51836) ; 121 

 specimens of plants, constituting a 

 set of Baker's " Economic Plants of 

 the World" (51837); 6 specimens 

 of Mamillaria, IS plants, chiefly 

 Allioniacese, collected in Mexico by 

 A. S. Hitchcock (51860; 52440; 

 52502) ; specimen of Opuntia from 

 Nevada (51906) ; 21 living speci- 

 mens of cacti collected in Texas by 

 C. R. Ball (51913; 51940) ; 2 packets 

 of seeds of Anona (through P. J. 

 Wester) (51951) ; 181 plants from 

 various localities (51973) ; 3 speci- 

 mens of cultivated Castilla, received 

 through H. Pittier, and living and 

 dried plants and a lizard collected 

 by him in Panama (52044; 524S2; 

 52540; 52659; 52799; 52817) ; speci- 

 men of Prunus ilicifolia, collected 

 in California by Silas C. Mason 

 (52088) ; type specimen of Abronia 

 latiuscula (52096) ; 13 living speci- 

 mens of Opuntia collected by W. L. 

 McAtee in Florida, Louisiana, and 

 Texas (52150; 52246; 52291; 52416) ; 

 1,250 plants collected in Chesapeake 

 Bay region in 1902-3 by George H. 

 Shull (52181) ; 2 plants collected in 

 Wisconsin by J. C. McDowell 

 (52293) ; 670 plants collected chiefly 



