HENDERSON 

 HARRI.\GTO> 



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to other animals, and the exceedmgly large number of known species 

 give them zoological prominence. Their relations to the poUenization 

 of plants and theii" destructiveness to vegetation give them both 

 botanical and economic importance. Then- 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 etlinological point of view the position of insects is a 

 mmor 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 

 requke 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 distingiushed from one another by 

 characters which may bo 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 mteresting 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 discrmiination, 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, GUlette, Hagen, Holland, Howard, 

 Hulst, Mead, Scudder, Thomas, Townsend, Uhler, Ulke, and Wlieeler. 

 More than 30 of Prof. CockereU'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 



