1961-1962 - American Museum of Natural History

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dition, the newly appointed director of the planetarium now under construction in St. Louis, Missouri, spent two weeks here on an orientation visit. All members of the staff took active parts in the work of the professional societies in which they have memberships. The influence of the staff was also expressed through numerous outside lectures, appearances on television and radio, and by participation in panels and workshops for the National Science Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and several other agencies of the museum, planetarium, and astronomy professions. DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., Chairman The new direction that the Department of Entomology is gradually taking was evidenced this year by considerably increased activity in three areas-research productivity, curatorial accomplishments, aiid exhibition. Dr. Rozen, working under a National Science Foundation grant, continued the biosystematic study of the parasitic bees in the genus Oreopasites. All species in this genus are obligatory parasites in the nests of the non-social bee genus Nomadopsis. Having previously completed the initial taxonomic work, Dr. Rozen devoted his attention this year to a study of the behavior and biology of the various species. During three field trips to the western and southwestern United States (in spring, summer, and early fall), he worked out comparative life histories and host associations, performed nutritional experiments in order to determine the nature of the intraspecific variation in these bees, and made extensive collections which included over-winter immature stages of eight different forms. In addition, Dr. Rozen brought to completion an anatomical and systematic study of the larvae of the beetle family Nitidulidae, an investigation that was initiated by the late Dr. 26
Adam G. Boving of the United States National Museum in Washington. This manuscript represents the first major study of these larvae. As an outgrowth of the study, a preliminary investigation of the pupae was started and nearly completed. Ground work has been laid for a taxonomic and phylogenetic study of the larvae and pupae of the beetle family Lycidae of North America. Dr. Willis J. Gertsch, doing field work in the western United States, searched Fly Cave near Canyon City, Colorado, for an undescribed spider belonging to the genus Hypochilus. The discovery of this spider earlier in the year was an event of major importance as it represents the third species of the relict genus Hypochilus to be taken in North America. The genus belongs to a group already present in Carboniferous times and is found today in the following disjunct areas: China, Tasmania, the United States, and southern Chile. In California Dr. Gertsch visited some fifteen caves in search of blind cave spiders and made a general survey of the fall spider fauna of the Coast Ranges of the Sierra Nevada. Dr. Frederick H. Rindge nearly completed the revisionary investigations of the geometrid moth genera Melanolophia and Pherotesia. These two closely related genera are primarily Neotropical in distribution, with only five species occurring in the United States. As a result of the study, Dr. Rindge learned that the most primitive members of the genera occur in southern Brazil and that the areas of abundance are the Andes and Central America. With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Rindge also spent two months in collecting moths in New Mexico and southern Colorado, returning with 19,000 specimens, one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera ever taken in that poorly collected area. Dr. Paul H. Arnaud, Jr., completed his revision of a section of the tachinid fly tribe Neominthoini. Species of the Tachinidae, a large family of Diptera, as larvae are parasitic on other insects. Nothing is known about the biology of the Neomin. 27
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