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ation of these species that the genus Poropaea is represented 

 by black species quite as figured. Centrobia proved to be 

 entirely different from Trie ho gramma. 



A great feature of the entomological collection is the occur- 

 rence of the results of many Asiatic expeditions. It has the 

 Lepidoptera collections of the Grand Duke Mikaelovitch, and 

 lias also in Lepidoptera the collections of Eversmann, Wocke, 

 Ershoff, Menetries, Alpheraky, Leder. Heidemann, Hertz (made 

 <>n the Mammoth Expedition), Bremer, and Kristoff; in Dip- 

 tera, the collections of Kowartz, Eversmann, and Jaros- 

 chevsky ; also Osten-Sacken's European collection, and a col- 

 lection bought by him in Italy. In the Hymenoptera they have 

 all of the F. Morawitz collection, as well as the collection of 

 Jaroschevsky, and in part the collections of Kokujev, R. du 

 Huysson's Vespirlse, Ruzsky's Formicidae. In Hemiptera they 

 have parts of the collections of B. Jakovlev, Melichar, O. 

 Renter, and Oshanin. In Orthoptera they have part of the 

 Saussure collection, part of the Brunner von Wattenwyl col- 

 lection, and also the collections of Eversmann, Adelung, and 

 part of the Zubovsky collection. In Coleoptera they have the 

 Menetries collection, part of the Motschulsky collection, and 

 part of the Semenov. They have also the collections of A. 

 and F. Morawitz, of Solsky, Blessig, Rybanov, and George 

 Jacobsen. 



As above stated they have the material from very many 

 expeditions from all the polar expeditions, from Schmidt 

 (1862) down to Toll (1902-5). It is very rich in central 

 Asiatic collections. It has all the material from the 

 I Yzewabsky, Kozloff, Roboroffski, and Berezofski expeditions, 

 the latter to Mongolia, and of the Potanin.and Pebzoff expe- 

 ditions to Thibet ; also many others. The determined material 

 of the expeditions of Schrank, Mark, Radte, and Middendorf 

 to Turkestan are also there. 



I was informed that Professor Menzbier, at the University 

 of Moscow, has some of Motschulsky's types, and that Charles 

 < )l>erthiir, at Rennes, possesses more. Also that there are some 

 in the Moscow Society of Natural History ; others in the 

 Mannerheim collections in the university at Helsingfors. 



The collections of the Academy are all admirably cared for. 

 and form a marked contrast to the condition of the cabinets 

 at the St. Petersburg Entomological Society. 



At Moscow I visited the zoological museum of the univer- 

 sity, but was not able to get to the collection of the society. 

 The museum of the university is not good, and the insect col- 



