gs MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTO Ce RAR 
P O MOLOGY.-,;yeED | 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | 
SEP 3 1920 
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1 U.S, Depertmeant af Agriowituts i 

Number 195 
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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
On July 5 Congress approved an item of $50,000 for the purchase 
by the Department of Agriculture of the collection of Lepidoptera built 
Mee py the late Dr. William Barnes, of Decatur, Ill. This collection, 
_ which is world-famous, comprises more than 450,000 specimens, includ— 
ing many types and other accurately compared specimens, and is accom— 
panied by a large library on Lepidoptera and by an extensive card catalog 
of the North American species. Messrs. Busck and Heinrich, of the Bu- 
reau staff, went to Decatur about the middle of July, and are preparing 
the collection for shipment to Washington. It is planned to transfer 
the specimens to the custody of the United States National Museum, where 
they can be combined with collections already there. 
Peewee, Aldrich, Associate Curator, Division of Insects; (Usea: 
National Museum, returned on July 21 from a trip to the western part of 
the country. He reports excellent collecting in Diptera from a number 
of localities in the Northwest. 
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y., spent July 25 to 28 consulting with the 
Bureau specialists on Lepidoptera, and comparing specimens of Papaipema, 
Family Noctuidae, in the collections. 
L. H. Dunn, of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama City, Pana- 
ma, spent July 7 to 14 at the Museum, studying the blood-sucking flies, 
mostly Tabanidae and Simuliidae, in the collections. 
George M. Greene, from Harrisburg, Pa., worked in the collections ° 
of Coleoptera at intervals from July 7 to July 19. 
Miss Gwladys Hughes, graduate student at Cornell University, vis— 
ited the taxonomic unit in July to consult books in the library and con- 
fer with the specialists on Hymenoptera regarding a problem on which she 
is engaged. 
Dr. J. Bequaert, of the School of Tropical Medicine at Harvard 
University, spent the week of July 21 to 26 in the Museum, studying Dip- 
tera of the families Tabanidae and Culicidae, and various social Hymen- 
optera. 
H. G. Barber was an occasional worker in the collections of He- 
-miptera during July. 
