Report of the President 63 



from Mr. E. D. Harris (tiger-beetles), Mr. B. Preston Clark 

 (moths), and Professor T. D. A. Cockerell (bees). Professor 

 Cockerell has also deposited with us types and paratypes of a 

 number of his species. 



Messrs. Leng and Mutchler have published their catalogue 

 of West Indian Coleoptera, which will form a basis from which 

 to work upon this interesting fauna, and Mr. H. G. Barber 

 has prepared a comprehensive paper on the Hemiptera of 

 Florida, which has been published. Dr. Lutz has nearly ready 

 for press an analysis of the distribution of spiders in the 

 Greater Antilles; Mr. Watson has nearly finished the editing 

 and completion of a paper on the Lepidoptera of Florida 

 which was gotten well under way by the late Mr. Grossbeck; 

 and Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, 111., has undertaken the 

 completion of Mr. Beutenmiiller's monograph on the Catocala. 



RECENT AND EXTINCT FISHES, 

 EXISTING REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 



DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY 



Bashford Dean, Curator Emeritus; Louis Hussakof, Curator of Ichthyology 

 Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Associate Curator of Herpetology 



At the beginning of the year, the curatorship of the depart- 

 ment, left vacant through the retirement of Professor Dean 



_, r, _. with- the title of Curator Emeritus, was 



Changes in Staff -„,,', . . t . 



filled by the appointment of Acting Curator 



Hussakof as Curator of Ichthyology, the division of Herpe- 

 tology being placed in immediate charge of Miss Mary Cynthia 

 Dickerson, who was appointed Associate Curator of Her- 

 petology. 



FISHES 



The past year was an unusually successful one in the 



preparation of material for exhibition and in the acquisition of 



A . , valuable specimens and small collec- 



Accessions and r . . , 



A . . , tions, for many of which we are 



Acknowledgments . , , ' , . „ 



indebted, as in former years, to the 



generosity of Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge. Among the chief 



