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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, of the department of entomology, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y., spent December 12 to 24 studying the National 
collections of Lepidoptera and consulting with the Bureau's specialists. 
On December 9 Charles Peterson, of the United States Park Service, 
Department of the Interior, consulted with Carl Heinrich on certain 
Lepidoptera. 
Dr. L. I. Hewes, of the San Francisco Regional Office, Bureau of 
Public Roads, was in the section of Lepidoptera on December 9. 
Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Bureau's field laboratory at Moorestown, 
N. J., for investigations of the oriental fruit moth, came to Washington 
December 12 to obtain determinations of some hymenopterous parasites of 
that moth. ' 
Dr. A. Avinoff, director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
and Frank Johnson, of New York City, well-known students of Lepidoptera, 
spent December 12 examining material in the National collections of 
Lepidoptera and consulting with the Bureau's specialists. 
Dr. M. D. Leonard, Chief Entomologist, Insular Experiment Station, 
Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, consulted the specialists of the taxonomic unit 
in the interval from December 17 to December 20. . 
Dr. Joseph Bequaert, of the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine, 
Boston, Mass., was in the Museum parts of the interval from December 17 
to December 19, examining the collections in certain families of Diptera 
and Hymenoptera. 
Dr. Wm. A. Hoffman, of the Porto Rico School of Tropical Medicine, 
spent December 20 in the Museum studying material of the blood-sucking 
flies. 
Dr. Don Salvador Aguilar, of Salvador, Central America, now study— 
ing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., recently came to Wash- 
ington to study mosquitoes in the National collection. 
Kenneth Coorer, of Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., came to Washing- 
ton on December 29, and will spend several days in the study of beetles 
of the family Byrrhidae in the Museum collections. 
A. B. Klots, of the department of entomology, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., was in the Museum December 29 to 31, examining material 
in the collections of Lepidoptera. 
