62 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 



trays with a generic card index. The Opihones have been arranged 

 in the new trays, but the other groups are largely as they have been 

 for some years. There is a vast amount of exotic material, much 

 undetermined. 



The collection of Myriopoda also contains much valuable ma- 

 terial, largely of Chamberlin and Attems, probably about 700 or 800 

 types. The vials have been arranged in numbered trays and there is 

 a generic card index to the named material. There is a large amount 

 yet unstudied. 



The collection of fossil insects has grown enormously through the 

 recent efforts of Dr. Carpenter, and much of the identified material 

 is catalogued, but the work is not yet finished. Most of the Scudder 

 types are here, in all about 1500, while new forms are constantly 

 appearing in the new collections. 



The exotic insects came largely from expeditions, such as the 

 Thayer Brazilian Expedition; the Uhler trip to Haiti; the Hassler 

 voyage; the Barbour East and West Indian journeys; the several 

 collections of Brooks in Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Falkland 

 Islands, South Africa and West Australia; the numerous collections 

 of W. M. Wheeler in Cuba, Panama, Costa Rice, Guatemala, Brit- 

 ish Guiana, New Zealand, Morocco, Hawaii, and especially Aus- 

 tralia; the W. M. Mann material from the Solomons, Fiji, Mexico, 

 Haiti and Brazil; the Davis Argentine collection; the Brues Grenada 

 and Jamaica material; the Wight collection from Jamaica; the 

 Banks Panama collection; the Allen and the Loveridge collections 

 from East Africa; the Wulsin collections from China, West Africa 

 and Madagascar; and particularly the great series of specimens 

 gathered or purchased by Dr. Thaxter; and many smaller lots from 

 others. 



The insect collection is now in about 5000 drawers, except that the 

 Blanchard, Bowditch Chrysomelidae and Harris Cicindelidae are in 

 Schmitt type boxes; part also of the Hymenoptera are in Schmitt 

 boxes, but they are being transferred. The Johnson collection is still 

 in the original boxes, and so is much of the Bowditch general collec- 

 tion. There are still several hundred storage boxes with good ma- 

 terial as yet unsorted. The collection of galls and the duplicate 

 Orthoptera are also in storage boxes. The Arachnida, Myriopoda 

 and many of the alcoholic insects are in upright vials arranged in trays. 



