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him to produce that wonderfully concise book, "Record of my 

 Life-work in Entomology," a volume' which so fittingly rounds 

 out the life-work of this remarkable man. This fascinating 

 book tells, among other things, the many differences existing 

 among the contemporaneous dipterologists — a personal bibliog- 

 raphy, as it were, in which the one at fault is always severely 

 criticised. On the other hand, meritorious works and deeds 

 are extolled in terms of true and lasting friendship. His man- 

 ner of criticism is perhaps best shown in the following para- 

 graph : "In regard to Loew I state here once for all that, while 

 condemning his injustice in the strongest terms, I do not 

 mean to impugn his personal character as a man of truth and 

 honor. Loew, without any question, was a very superior man, 

 far superior- to me in natural ability, as well as learning. His 

 colossal labors stand for him; what I have done has been to 

 place his work in a better light and to give it a more distinct 

 definition, which was due to history." 



Usually he wrote his name C. R. Osten Sacken. In some of 

 the library catalogues in which they have endeavored to give 

 full names, it is Karl Robert Romanovich baron von Osten 

 Sacken. I have adopted the name as it appears in his last 

 publication, printed below his portrait accompanying part 3 

 of his life-work in entomology. 



A new Halictus from Nebraska. 

 By J. C. Crawford. 



Halictus swenki n. sp.— 9. 



Form rather slender, head and thorax black, segments 1-3 of abdomen 

 red, segment 1 with a blotch of black at base, segments 4 and 5 black; 

 apical margins of segments lighter, of 4 almost hyaline. 



Facial quadrangle slightly longer than broad, hardly narrowed below, 

 supraclypeal area and base of clypeus finely lineolate and finely sparsely 

 punctured, clypeus apically shiny and with sparse larger punctures; 

 face above antennae shiny, somewhat roughened and with fine shallow 

 indistinct punctures ; the whole face almost concealed by white appresed 

 pubescence; flagellum beneath, except 2 or 3 basal segments, red; 

 mesothorax with rather abundant whitish pubescence, finely lineolate, 



