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mead. This isa part of the natural history survey of the State under- 
_ taken by the Association, and the paper is based largely upon material 
furnished by the Secretary, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell. Three new 
genera are characterized, viz., Neolaraa, of the family Bembecidz ; 
Microbracon, of the Braconidz, and Dolichopselephus, of the Ichneu- 
monida. Sixty-seven new species are described, the descriptions of 
forty-one of which were drawn up from single specimens. The hymen- 
opterous fauna of the State, so far as it is now known, includes 33 
families, 247 genera, and 897 species. 
ARCHJEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. 
On the Use of the Phonograph Among the Zuni Indians. 
—Ever since I began my work with the phonograph as a means of pre- 
serving the language of the American Indians, I have looked forward 
with great interest to a visit to some of those tribes which still remain 
in approximately the same condition that they were when first visited 
by white men. Such tribes it is almost impossible to find now in the 
confines of the United States. But there are some which have been 
very little changed. 
have been particularly anxious to make observations among the 
Pueblo Indians, which still possess many interesting features of great 
antiquity. Of*all the Pueblos, except possibly the Moquis, the Zuñi- 
ans, or A’sheewee as they are called in their own tongue, have been 
least changed from their original condition by contact with Europeans. 
Living at a distance from the railroad, inhabiting isolated regions diffi- 
cult of access, these people have preserved the ancestral traditions and 
customs in their primitive form. In many ways they offer an unparal- 
lelled opportunity for the study of the religious and secular celebra- 
tions of Pueblo Indians, slightly modified from the olden time. 
A previous visit to Zufii, in the summer of 1889, had inspired in me 
a wish to attempt to record on the cylinders of the phonograph the 
songs, rituals, and prayers used by these people, especially in those 
most immutable of all observances, sacred ceremonials. I was par- 
ticularly anxious to record the songs connected with the celebration of 
the mid-summer dances, which occur at or near the summer solstice. 
By the help of Mrs. Hemenway, of Boston, it was possible for me, in 
the interest of the Hemenway Expedition, to visit Zufii Pueblo at this 
time, and I have been fortunate enough to take on the phonograph, 
