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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON

4.

1. The making up of collections for exchange. Some of these are the following:

a. A series of named Coleoptera for Mr. Chas. Palm, New York.

b. A small series of named Coleoptera for Prof. Paul Noel, Rouen, France.

c. A series of named Coleoptera for Prof.A.J. Cook, Lansing, Mich.

d. A series of Coleoptera for Mr.Chas.Dury, Cincinnati,O.

e. A series of Hemiptera for Prof. A.L.Montandon, Bucarest, Roumania.

2. The naming of specimens for collectors. Numerous larger and smaller series of insects of all orders have been identified for a number of correspondents.

3. The selection of material to be sent to specialists for study and determination.

a. The Coleoptera of the family Cistelidae have been sent to Capt.T.L.Casey, New York, who intends to monograph these insects.

b. A series of all the forms of the Buprestid genus Agrilus has been selected and sent to Dr. G.H.Horn of Philadelphia who offered to identify them according to his newly prepared, still unpublished revision of this genus.

c. a large series of the Dipterous family Techinidae, representing all the species in the col-