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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Professors J. G. Needham, C. R. Crosby, and Paul Needham, of the 
Department of Entomology, Cornell University, visited the Bureau of 
Entomology, including the Division of Taxonomy and Interrelations of 
Insects, on April 1. At this time Dr. J. G. Needham returned to the Na= 
tional Collection a part of the Chinese dragonflies which he had bor— 
rowed for study at the time he worked in the collections in last Janu- 
ary. 
Frank Johnson, of New York City, came to Washington on April 2 
to consult with Dr. Schaus, and to deposit in the Museum Collection a 
gift of some rare species of Lepidoptera. 
George P. Englehart, of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., who 
was returning from an extensive collecting trip in Florida, stopped in 
Washington on April 4 to complete the arrangements which have been under 
consideration for the deposit of the Brooklyn Museum collection of Lepi- 
doptera in the United States National Museum. 
In accordance with arrangements completed previously, Dr. W. 
Schaus went to Brooklyn, N. Y.,, for the week of April 8 to 15, to exam— 
ine the Lepidoptera which the Brooklyn Museum has decided to deposit 
in the United States National Museum Collection. He brought back by 
hand several hundred types which he had picked out of the collections. 
The cases containing the remainder of the specimens, some 65,000 in 
all, have been shipped to Washington by truck and will be installed in 
the Division of Insects at once. 
V. S. L. Pate, a graduate student in the Department of Entomol— 
ogy, Cornell University, spent April 4 to 6 examining types and other 
material of sphecoid wasps of the tribe Oxybelini in the National Col-— 
lection. He is engaged in a revision of this tribe, and while here ar-— 
ranged to borrow certain specimens from the Philippine Islands. 
G. J. Hauessler, of the field laboratory at Moorestown, N. ay 
valled at the National Museum April 4 to consult bureau specialists 
about hymenopterous parasites of the Oriental peach moth. 
Dr. P. W. Classen, of the Department of Entomology, Cornell Uni- 
versity, visited the taxonomic unit in the first week in April to con— 
sult with some of the specialists and to examine the National Collection 
of Plecoptera. 
John W. Angel, of New York City, spent April 15 and 16 study- 
ing types of beetles, particularly those of the family Lucanidae, in 
the Casey collection of Coleoptera. 
