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amateur entomologist. The walls of his apartment were 

 crowded with oil paintings, most of which were very 

 pleasing to me. Landscapes and farming scenes were the 

 most common subjects depicted. Bierig f s collection 

 was large, was housed in well over a hundred schmitt 

 boxes and was reasonably completely identified. However, 

 I noted that certain easy species in Oxyporus were mis- 

 identified and therefore I would not be too ready to 

 accept Bierig f s identifications of old species. 



Jan. 25 • At 8.30 AM, Scaramuzza, Malberti and Navarrete 



came onto the boat and found me finishing my breakfast. 

 The coffee that I had consumed the previous evening 

 had prevented me from sleeping until nearly four this 

 morning and I was still a bit groggy. Senor Malberti 

 came from the Secretariat of Agriculture and was attached 

 to me because I had expressed a wish to visit the agri- 

 cultural station at Santiago de las Vegas. Senor Navarret 

 came from the Secretariat of Education and was attached 

 to me because I wished to see the Gundlach collection, 

 now under the care of that office. A car and chauffeur 

 had been placed at my disposal for the duration of my 

 stay in Cuba by the Secretary of Education. We went 

 first to the Inst i tut o de la Habana where the Gundlach 

 collection is housed. The Institute has been closed 

 for four years and the doors leading into the collection 

 room were sealed. Bruner joined us and after some delay 

 the proper official, escorted by a squad of policemen, 

 arrived to break the seals and let us in. Although the 

 building itself has been closed, the patio has been used 

 by the Secretariat of Justice for use in registration 

 of aliens and other purposes. As the boxes which hold 

 the Gundlach collection are individually sealed, the 

 examination of a specimen must be made through the glass 

 top of the box at a distance of about two inches. Two 

 hours was sufficient to go over the Scarabaeidae and I 

 consider the time well spent. Among the specimens of 

 Ligyrus tumulosus I noted a single specimen of the new 

 speciesof Dynast ine from Oriente Province. It seems to 

 be the same sex as mine and therefore no special impor- 

 tance to me. Bruner had been checking on some of the 

 Hemiptera during this time and was now ready to go. 



After a very good luncheon at a restaurant not far 

 from El Capitolio, we were driven to the University of 

 Havana to call on Dr Aguayo and to see his collections 

 and the layout of his department. We also saw some of 

 the construction work on the new Zoology building. A 

 Representative of the Press took photographs of our 



