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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON

2. 

Olympia, Washington, (names returned.)

In addition to these regular accessions specimens were received from 40 different parties and were placed on temporary record only, being of no special value to the Museum. All were duly reported upon.

A series of all the forms of the Buprestid genus Agrilus was selected and sent to Dr. G. H. Horn of Philadelphia, who is engaged in preparing a monograph of this group. 

Another series of the Dipterous family Tachinidae, representing all the speices in the collection except uniques, was prepared and sent to Prof. Fred. Brauer in Vienna, who has published a new classification of the Calyptrate Muscidae of the world, but probably from lack of material at his disposal our North American fauna has not been satisfactorily elucidated. 

Several smaller lots of insects have been identified