334 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL 



MUSEUM. 



The staff of the Department of Insects of the U. S. National Museum 

 at Washington has been reorganized, as a result of the sad death of the 

 former Honorary Curator, Professor C. V. Riley. 



The reorganization has been effected by the appointment of Mr. L. 

 O. Howard, Entomologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to the 

 position of Honorary Curator of the Department of Insects ; of Mr. Wm. 

 H. Ashmead, to the position of Custodian of Hymenoptera ; and Mr. D. 

 W. Coquillett, to the position of Custodian of Diptera. All museum 

 custodians are honorary officers. Mr. M. L. Linell will remain as 

 general assistant to the Honorary Curator. 



The Department is at present in excellent working condition. It 

 contains a very great amount of material in all orders, and in many 

 unusual directions surpasses any collection in the country. Among 

 others the following are of especial interest : — 



(i) The large collection, in all orders, of the late Dr. C. V. Riley. 



(2) All of the material gathered during the past eighteen years by 

 correspondents, field agents, and the office staff of the Division of Ento- 

 mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



(3) The greater part of the collection of the late Asa Fitch. 



(4) The large collection, in all orders, of the late G. W. Belfrage. 



(5) The collections in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera made by Dr. 

 John B. Smith down to 1889, together with the types of the Noctuidse 

 since described by Dr. Smith. 



(6) The collection of Lepidoptera of the late O. Meske. 



(7) The collection of Lepidoptera of G. Beyer. 



(8) The collection of Coleoptera of M. L. Linell. 



(9) The bulk of the collection, in all orders, of the late H. K. 

 Morrison. 



(10) The collection of Diptera of the late Edward Burgess. 



(11) The type collection of Syrphidse made by Dr. S. W. Williston. 



(12) The collection of Ixodida? of the late Dr. George Marx. 



(13) The collection of Myriopoda of the late C. H. Bollman. 



(14) Sets of the neotropical collections of Herbert Smith. 



(15) The collection of Hymenoptera of VVm. J. Fox. 



(16) The collection of Tineina of Wm. BeutenmuUer. 



(17) The large Japanese collection, in all orders, of Dr. K. Mitsukuri. 



