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of Xorth America,' with almost all his types, as well as many types 

 and paratypes obtained from Boisduval, Tryon, Eeakirt, Henry Ed- 

 wards, S. H. Scudder, and Dr. Herman Behr. The collection also 

 inclndes the entire collection made by Theodore L. Mead, the types of 

 all species described by the present Director of the Miisenm, nnmeroiis 

 types of species described by Lord Walsingham, E. L. Ragonot, Arthur 

 G. Bntler, Sir George Hampson, William Doherty, Dr. Henry Skinner 

 and others, and cotypes of a multitude of species obtained from various 

 authors in different parts of the world. There are over three thousand 

 types and cotypes in the collection of Lepidoptera. The collection is 

 particularly rich in North American, Japanese, Indian and African 

 species. The Knyvett collection of Indian Lepidoptera was purchased 



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Henry Ulke. 



Frederick S. Webster. 



by Mr. Carnegie some years ago. It contains over three thousand 

 species of Indian Lepidoptera, mostly represented by large series of 

 specimens. Large portions of the collections made by Doherty in India 

 and in the Malay Archipelago are also here. The micro-lepidoptera 

 of Japan, collected by the late Henry Pryer, of Yokohama, are also 

 incorporated in the collection, having been purchased in 1887, a year 

 before the lamented death of Pryer. Latterly extensive additions have 

 been made in the form of material secured from various localities in 

 Africa, Mexico and Central America, and from the continent of South 

 America, the latter principally through the labors of Herbert H. Smith. 

 The assemblage of colcoptera, comprising among other things the 

 collections of the late Dr. Hamilton, of Allegheny, and of Henry 



