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American Museum of Natural History. A. N. Caudell continued 

 taxonomic work on cockroaches and made satisfactory progress in 

 the identification of the general collection of Orthoptera made in 

 Java by Palmer and Bryant. W. S. Fisher continued taxonomic 

 studies of beetles, especially those of the family Cerambycidae. He 

 revised the species of the subfamily Lamiinae, published a paper 

 describing those in the collection of the American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, and completed a paper containing descriptions of new 

 forms in our collection. He also continued studies of Philippine 

 material and during the year revised the Philippine species of the 

 tribe Exocentrini and submitted for publication the results of his 

 studies. During the year Mr. Fisher also rendered assistance to 

 the editor of the New York State list of insects by revising the 

 manuscript dealing with the families Cerambycidae and Buprestidae. 

 Dr. A. G. Boving continued his studies of coleopterous larvae, com- 

 pleted a synoptic table of the families in cooperation with Doctor 

 Craighead, and devoted considerable time to study of various forms. 

 W. L. McAtee, who continued to spend part of his time in work 

 on the collection, completed a revision of leaf hoppers of the genus 

 Typhlocyha and, in collaboration with J. K. Mallock, finished a 

 revision of the Cryptostemmatidae which has already been published. 

 Dr. William Schaus, in collaboration with Dr. W. J. Holland, de- 

 voted considerable time toward the preparation of a report on African 

 Macrolepidoptera. This paper, to be published by the Carnegie 

 Museum, contains descriptions of many new species in the collections 

 of the Carnegie Museum and the National Museum. C. T. Greene 

 completed and published a paper on the larvse and pupa? of the 

 family Sarcophagidae, and prepared descriptions of the immature 

 stages of Pantophthahiius taha7iinus, and an interesting bot-fly which 

 is parasitic on monkeys. He also devoted considerable time to a 

 tentative classification of Muscoid flies based on a detailed study of 

 their puparia, and prepared a manuscript describing the larvae and 

 pupse of the flies of the family Leptidae in the national collection. 

 August Busck continued studies on certain groups of Microlepidop- 

 tera, in connection with which he examined collections of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, and Dr. William Barnes, of Deca- 

 tur, 111., and consulted types in the Canadian National Collection. 

 Carl Heinrich completed a revision of the family Olethreutidae, 

 during which he reexamined types in the American Museum of 

 Natural History and the collection of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. He prepared also technical descriptions of larvae and 

 pupae of several species of Lepidotera from Museum material for 

 use in Government publications. R. A. Cushman continued studies 

 of the parasitic tribe Ichneumonini and nearly completed a revision 



