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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912, 



Agkicultuee, Department of — Contd. 

 lected by W. W. Worthington 

 (54085) ; 7 bird eggs and a nest from 

 Porto Rico (54120) ; 5 bird eggs 

 from Porto Rico and 1 from Wis- 

 consin (54216) ; S bird eggs from 

 Alabama (54227) ; about 100 speci- 

 mens of crayfish from Muldon, Miss. 

 (54238). (See under Mr. N. A. 

 Comeau.) 



Bureau of Entomology : 412 speci- 

 mens of Coleoptera and Hemiptera, 

 determined by A. L. Montandon 

 (52983; 53143; 53299; 53428; 53866; 

 54018 ; 54081 ; 54176) ; 7 parasitic Hy- 

 meuoptera, collected by George Com- 

 pere (53036) ; 14 bird skins. 2 nests, 

 4 bird eggs. 37 bats. 1 fish, 7 crusta- 

 ceans, 15 packages of insects, and 4 

 living plants, collected in Panama 

 by August Busck (53063; 53355; 

 53813; 53954; 53962; 54177; '54249) : 

 insects collected by Mr. Busck at 

 Paraiso, Canal Zone (53858) ; 3 

 sbrimps and a worm from Paraiso, 

 Canal Zone, and 2 isopods from Pan- 

 ama, collected by E. A. Schwa rz 

 (53219; 53702) ; 6 isopods, Armadil- 

 Udium vulgar e (53274) ; 28 speci- 

 mens of biting flies from Zanzibar, 

 determined by E.E.Austen (53315) ; 



2 specimens of sowbugs, PorcelUo 

 scaber A-ar. marginata, collected by 

 Mrs. Daniel Lord, Sosiego, Law- 

 rence, N. T. (53334) ; 17 parasitic 

 Hymenoptera from Isle Reunion, 

 Indian Ocean (53345) : 5 parasitic 

 Hymenoptera (53421) ; about 100 

 specimens of Hemiptera collected by 

 J. A. Hyslop (53462) ; about 100 

 specimens of Hymenoptera, mostly 

 from Kansas, Utah, and California 



( 53541 ) ; ea rthwor ms, Pheretmui cali- 

 fornica, from Costa Rica (53704) ; 

 about 70 parasitic Hymenoptera 



(type material of 3 new species) 

 from the Forest Insect Investiga- 

 tions (53709) ; 25 bred parasitic 



Hymenoptera, CJmlcidoidea (53737) ; 



3 beetles from Sacaton, Ariz., rep- 

 resenting 1 species, and 12 from 

 China, representing 6 species 

 (58796) ; 23 beetles from Ai-lington, 



Agriculture, Department of — Contd. 

 Cal., and about 50 from Argentina 

 collected by A. H. Rosenfeld (53963) ; 

 2 specimens of Philotermes pennsyl- 

 vanicus and 2 specimens of Atinus 

 moniUcomis, collected by S. E. 

 Crumb, Clarksville. Tenn. (53998) ; 

 1,551 insects (54080) ; 15 specimens 

 of a hymenopteron parasitic on 

 fishes in France (54123). (See un- 

 der Mr. V. A. E. Daecke and Mrs. 

 A. P. Taylor.) 



Office of Experiment StatiotiH: 120 

 spiders, 7 centipedes, 4 millipedes 

 and 10 scorpions, a snake, Tgphlops 

 branunus, and 3 moUusks, Veroni- 

 cella, from Guam (53857). 



Forest Service: 3 packages of 

 plants from the v/estern part of the 

 United States, collected by W. W. 

 Eggleston (53003). 



Bureau of Plant Industry: 4 

 plants collected in the Dismal 

 Swamj), Va., by Frederick V. Coville 

 (52973) ; plants, bats, reptiles, fishes, 

 insects, crustaceans, and ethnological 

 objects collected in Panama by H. 

 Pittier (52974; 53004; 530.32; 53055; 

 53059; 53123; 53220; 53422; 53478; 

 53599; 53632; 53646; 54145); living 

 specimen of Scleniccreus spinulosus 

 from Mexico (53178) ; specimen of 

 TiUandsia recuri^ata from Texas 

 (53247) ; 6 packages of plants, a jar 

 of plants in alcohol and some land 

 shells (53308) ; specimen and photo- 

 graph of Yucca baccata from Colo- 

 rado (53316) ; living specimen of 

 Opuntia collected in Colorado by H. 

 L. Shantz (53330) : 2 living speci- 

 mens of Acanthocereus collected in 

 Panama by A. S. Hitchcock ; 55 

 plants collected by him in Alaska 

 and 47 in Central America (53330; 

 54116: 53823); 6.214 plants, mainly 

 grasses, collected in Panama by Mr. 

 Hitchcock (53860) ; fern collected in 

 Arizona by T. H. Kearney; also 11 

 plants collected by him in Arizona 

 and California (53359; 53823); 9 

 plants collected in Colorado by G. P. 

 Rixford (534^3) ; 5 plants received 

 from V. G. Plymire, Taochow, China 



