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MISCELLANEOUS 
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.(Items from the National Museum contributed by S. A, Rohwer) 
























| Paul Myers, of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, stationed at 
Carlisle, Pa., visited the Division of Insects recently to consult with Mr. 
Gahan regarding a paper on the parasites of the Hessian fly. 
TZ, R. Chamberlin, who has spent the last two years at Hyéres, France, 
_ investigating parasites of the alfalfa weevil, visited the Museum to consult 
with Messrs, Gahan and Cushman before he returns to his permanent station at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, 
Miss Margaret M, Fagan, of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, sta- 
tioned at Salt Lake City, Utah, has spent about two weeks at the Museum pre- 
paring a bibliography of the alfalfa weevil, 
Specimens of a large robber fly, Saropozon dispar Coq., have been sent 
to Doctor Aldrich by David Hunter of San Antonio, Tex., with the information 
that they are killing many honeybees in his apiary, "having weakened the colonies 
to a considerable extent before the cause was discovered ... Over a thousand 
_ have been killed by knocking them over with a stick." No such numbers have 
ever been reported before, although in the literature of robber flies there 
are records of several species occasionally attacking bees, Saropogon dispar 
has been found hitherto only in Texas and Oklahoma, and no referencesto its 
_ habits are found in literature, 
b, Doctor Béving has spent considerable time on the morphology and taxonomy 
of some of the larvae of the family Scarabaeidae, and has recently finished 
figures and descriptions of most of the genera of the subfamilies Rutelinae 
and Dynastinae. He has also recently completed descriptions and figures of 
the larvae of Clinidium sculptile, belonging to the ancient anc taxonomically 
_ important family Rhyssodidae,. 

Included in a collection of ants recently received from Prof 5, 0, 
Bruner, of Cuba, were five species of the remarkable and rare genus Macromischa. 
Three of these species are new and will be described by Doctor Mann, 
Recent letters from Prof, T, D. A. Cockerell, who has been spending the 
summer in Siberia, report very interesting and extensive collections of 
Cerambycidae and Buprestidae end many small beetles, as well as a good lot of 
butterflies, many crane-flies and a very fine-looking lot of sawflies. He 
states that he has collected a good many bees, but they are very ordinary 
looking species; some apparently the same as the Zuropean forms, He records bi 
the collection of a few fossil insects and describes briefly a camp in the r 
woods where he.was "consumed" by mosquitoes and horse-flies,. 

Messrs. Hyslop and Boving are working on the morphology and taxonomy 
of the larvae of the family Elateridae, and are arranging the material in the 
collection. 

