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the Museum the tyve of Asrilus pacanascul ints ‘Charplain: and Kyoll, tIn 
“ gending ‘in this type, Frofessor, Devis says ia “pants | "Since I believe that 
the National Museum'is’ the logical place for types, I am’ sending: this 
specimen ‘to be deposited in the National Collection. ® ne .. hee 
The Division of Insects has recently received a valuable lot of 
Porto ‘Rican Coleepiera: fram George. MN. Wolcott, ‘The’ Tot inelnded cotypes of 
five species déescritéd by.Dr. Guy Mars shall, of the British Marseum, . In trans- 
mitting this -mateYial Mr..- Wolcott expressed the delist: that: the: tyees Qf 
species should be placed in the Naticnal Colleétion, where’ pee will be 
available*to a larze number of workers, ~ “ 
On October 26, the iiseun received as gifts from EB. Rosenberg, Copen- 
hagen, Denmark, specimens Of waLd species of reared coleopterous larvae, rupee, 
and adults, one species, Opatmim xrikparium.Scrib., being new to the collection. 
The MMseun has. recently received:a very extensive collection of water 
beetles belonging to the families Dytiscidae and Haliplidae from John D. 
Sherman, Jr. This collection. contains approximately £0,COO specimens and 
Reptescute about 400 North American species and about "200 additional exotic 
speciés, ‘It includes a few.ef the types of species described by H. C. Fall 
and a large number of cotypes: and. paratypes. of. species described by this ~ 
WOrKeT In depositing the collection in the National Museu; Mr. euerman. 
Aves that it is-given.to the Museum in loving appreciation and honor of” Dr. 
‘A. Schwa aftz, ‘who has: dorie -so ‘much to encourage. his collecting and to assist 
him in work on Coleoptsra. This collection is in many ways the counterpart 
(any oe the Roberts collection of these beetles in the Americam Museum of 
Satiral 1 History: ‘and. of the Blanchard:collection in the Masewn of Comparative 
Zoology, so that'all three: institutions. now have: rairly’ cor aplete collections 
of the North American species of these beetles. ‘THiS Collection -was brought 
to Waship ton in an automobile by H. S. Barber”and Mr. Sherman, and arrived 
in most. “excel lent’ condition. The transfer of this collection by automobile 
_ demonstrates the utility: of this method.of carfying fragile specimens, which 
lessens the cost of be Eee a ER NE SHES inasmach as it ‘does not: necessitate 
crating ani packing. iy 
Be Mitchell spent the: any Be October kt studying types of bees of 
the iting Megachile in ‘the Museum collections. ~ ~Mrs--Mitcheil was on his way 
to North* Carolina, after: er ee the summer studying at the ea ine € 
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Dr.: Wm. M.Mann, formerly of the Bureau” “ahd Yow | 7) ae eeteeeeee of the ar he eg 
National Zoological Park, was:married on October. 30 .to Miss Iucile H. ad 
formerly assistant editor in the editorial. office. of pene desc 
ae: Ge Fall, of Tyngsboro, Mass., arrived in’ feu tneeen October 23" . 
and spent several days here, studying the types of the staphylinid genera 
Hymenorus and Euaesthetus in the Casey and the Hubbard and Schwarz collections, 
