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the Museum his own large co'lection of some 15,000 specimens. The 

 force as at present constituted is L O. Howard, Honorary Curator; Wm. 

 H. Ashmead, Assistant Curator and Custodian of Hymenoptera ; Har- 

 rison G. Dyar, Custodian of Lepidoptera ; E. A. Schwarz, Custodian of 

 Coleoptera; D. W. Coquillett, Custodian of Diptera ; and R. P. Currie, 

 Aid. 



For a Department which has bought no large collections, the Depart- 

 ment of Insects is rich in type material. The catalogue shows the exist- 

 ence of over 4000 types in the different orders. 



Recent accessions of special value are a collection of European bees, 

 representing all of the genera known except one; the Hubbard material 

 in all orders recently collected in Arizona; the African material collected 

 in Liberia by Cook and Curne; the African and Siamese material col- 

 lected by Dr. W. L. Abbott; a collection of Coccinellidae and Psyllidae 

 made by Albert Koebele in Japan, Australia, China and Mexico; a col- 

 lection of parasitic Hymenoptera made by the same collector in the coun- 

 tries above indicated; a very large collection of Japanese insects in all 

 orders presented by the Imperial University of Tokio through Professor 

 Mitsukuri; the T. A. Williams collection of Aphididas, comprising over 

 800 slides of forms collected in the Northwest. Smaller donations are 

 constantly being received from collectors and specialists and the number 

 of those received in the course of the year form very important additions 

 to the collection. 



The facilities for the preservation of specimens have been very con- 

 siderably increased, several hundred of the permanent glass-covered 

 drawers having been added. 



Entomological Literature. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatoim , 

 physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic 

 species, will be recorded. The numbers in h^avy-faced type refer to the journals, -as 

 numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published ; * denotes that the 

 paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 



4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Out., Feb., '98. 5. Psyche, 

 Cambridge, Mass., Feb., '98. 7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Di- 

 vision of Entomology, Washington; publications of, '97. 9. The Ento- 

 mologist, London, Feb., '98. 11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, London, Jan., '98. 15. Biologia Centrali-Americana, London, 

 part cxxxvii, Sept., part cxxxix, Dec., '97. 19. Horae Societatis Ento- 

 mologicce Rossicce, xxxi, 1-2, St. Petersburg, '97. 2ii. Zoologischer 

 Anzeiger, Leipsic, '98. 38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvi, 10. 



