i 
LY. working in ti 
1¢ National Museum on the collection of Lepidoptera and confer- 
Ying with Mr, Schaus, 
wn CO, i, Woodward, director and chief entomologist of Kiangsu Province, 
China, spent Thursday, April 19, in the section of insects consulting some of the 
Specialists in regard to specimens he collected, Doctor Woodward's headquarters are 
at Nanking and he has associated with him the following Chinese entomologists as 
well as other workers: Coey Park Jung, C. Francis Wu, and Hai-san Chang, 
Beginning April 13, Dr. J. Chester Bradley of Cornell University spent seven 
says in the museum working on the collection of Hymenoptera and discussing a clas- 
» sification of the order with the various specialists. Doctor Bradley is preparing 
& classification of the Hymenoptera for Professor Comstock's new manual and in 
pons this he is seeking the cooperation of other workers, with the hope that they 
will be able to present an arrangement which will be generally acceptable to both 
american and European workers, 
The question is often asked how many species of chiggers there are in North 
america, Based on the material submitted for identification through the channels 
of the bureau and the National Museum, Doctor Ewing finds that there is only one 
common species in North America, This species ig Trombicula tlalzahuatl and is 
generally distributed in North America, ranging from Nev York State to Central 

America and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. 
| The museum has recently issued as Bulletin 124 a genotype list of the 
thalcid-flies, This paper was prepared by Mr, Gahan and Miss Fagan and includes 
bhe genera of this group as far as they are mentioned in the literature received 
nt 
hn Washington up to July 1, 1921, 
. The museum has issued as Bulletin 123 a revision of the North American 
ficrolepidoptera belonging to the subfamily Bucosminae, This bulletin has been pre- 
jared by Mr, Heinrich, contains descriptions of North American species vith keys for 
yheir identification, and is illustrated by 59 plates showing characters of the 
ale genitalia, 
Albert Hertzell is working in the museum on the collection of the leaf—hopper 
enus Empoasca. Mr, Hertzell is doing this work for his doctor's thesis under the 
irection of Dr, Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University, and his object in 
tudying the material in the collection is to gain a knowledge of the distribution 
nad also to benefit by an examination of the types, 
, Species of the buprestid genus Trachykele are rare in collections, the 
stern species, Trachykele lecontei, being especially rare, Until recently the 
ational Collection contained only three specimens of this species, On a week-end 
tip to Cape Henry, Va., Dr. E. A. Schwartz, H. S. Barber, and W/. S, Fisher secured 
ive more specimens of this rare species from cypress. 
The National Musewm has recently received, as an exchange from the British 
iseum, about 300 species of Old World Orthoptera, Most of these are new in the 
lection, 



