SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS BY THE U. S. FISH COM- 

 MISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS. 



[Published by permission of linn. Marshall McDonald, Commissioner <>f Fisheries ] 



No. V.— ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF THE INSECTS COLLECTED IN 



1887-'88. 



BY 



L. O. Howard, 

 Acting Curator of the Department of Insects. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Upon assuming charge of the Department of Insects, after Dr. Riley's 

 departure for Europe in April last, I found this collection awaiting re- 

 port, and learned that the Myriapoda and Arachnida received with the 

 Hexapoda, under Accession Number 21G99, had been sent to specialists 

 for report. After a review of the material, and notification from the 

 office of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Museum that a speedy 

 report was desirable, I decided that the most expeditious and satisfac- 

 tory method of determining the collection would be to call upon the best 

 known specialists in the country for assistance. I therefore sent the 

 Hemiptera of the collection to Prof. P. E. Uhler, of Baltimore, Md. j the 

 Orthoptera to Mr. Lawrence Bruner, of Lincoln, Nebr.; the Diptera to 

 Dr. S. W. Williston, of New Haven, Conn.; the Lepidoptera to Rev. W. 

 J. Holland, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; aud the Mallophaga to Prof. Herbert 

 Osborn, of Ames, Iowa. All of these gentlemen very kindly sent in 

 prompt and satisfactory reports, and each is wholly responsible for the 

 determinations in his group. The remainder of the material was deter- 

 mined by the Aid of the Department, Mr. M. L. Linell. 



The method of arrangement adopted was deemed most desirable as 

 giving at a glance an idea of the collections made in each general local- 

 ity, but at the same time it rendered it impossible to publish each report 

 by itself. 



The Arachnida have been determined by Dr. George Marx, of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and it has been deemed best to place his 

 report in its entirety at the end of the Eexapoda. His report includes 

 certain manuscript names, and the specific descriptions accompanying 

 will be published elsewhere. 



The Myriapoda were submitted to Mr. Charles H. Bollman, of Bloom- 

 ington, Ind., who finds but eight species represented. His report is so 

 short that his descriptions of new species are included. 



Proceedings National Museum, Vol. XII — No. 771. 



