MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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Number 167 March, 1928 
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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Bi, R. A. Cushman arrived in Washington on March 27, after a six 
months' trip to the Philippines. As announced before in the NEWS LETTER, 
the purpose of his trip was to pack for shipment to the National Museum 
i the C. F. Baker collection of approximately 300,000 specimens of insects. 
| Mr. Cushman reports that he found the collection in very good condition. 
There were, however, some mold and.corrosion of pins. The collection ar-= 
rived safely in San Francisco and is now on its way to New York via the 
Panama Canal. It is expected that Mr. Cushman will meet the collection 
when it arrives in New York and oversee its transshipment there and at 
Norfolk. He reports that in the arduous task cf packing and shipping 
this enormous collection he received the kindest of cooperation from the 
College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines, the Quarter- 
master Corps, and many private citizens, notably Dr. R. L, Pendleton, 
administrator of the Baker estate. 
Dr. W. Schaus spent from the llth to the 15th of March examining 
various. collections of Lepidoptera..in Boston. He..first visited Mr. 
Weeks, spent an evening with B. Preston Clark,.and spent.some time study- 
ing the collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Morgan Hebard, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, visited 
the Division on March 29 and 30, and arranged some exchanges of Orthoptera 
with A. N. Caudell. 
On March 26 G. P. Engelhardt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on his way to 
Texas for a collecting trip, called at the Division to see the various 
specialists. 
The National Geographic Magazine is planning a series of articles 
on various orders of insects, and for the past month or so photographers 
from its staff have been engaged in making colored photographs of speci- 
mens in the Museum collection. The specialists in the Division have spent 
some time in preparing specimens of the more showy forms for photograph- 
ing. Some time ago the National Geographic published an article accom- 
panied by some very excellent colored-plates of butterflies and moths, 
and, judging by.the examples seen so far..in the orders Coleoptera and 
Orthoptera, it is expected that the plates now in preparation will be just 
as successful. 
Dr. Dyar recently received an interesting lot of mosquitoes from 
Dr. D. P. Curry, of Panama, among them being a new anopheline and the 
male of a form previously known only from the female. 
