ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 135 



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Several outdoor excursions were taken during the summer. The 

 first evening meeting was held at the Museum, on October 

 14th, 1873, when Mr. E. C. Reed, of the I^ational Museum of 

 Santiago, and formerly Hon. Secretary of the Section, was present, 

 and read a paper on the Entomology of Chili. The following is 

 an abstract of Mr Reed's remarks. 



*' Chili is far in advance of all other South American nations 

 with regard to all the natural sciences. Many years ago the 

 government of Chili had a work published with descriptions of 



Total 1760 species. 

 A present the National Museum alone possesses more than 

 double that number of species in its collections. Eor example, 

 in the work referred to, only twenty four species of BuprestidcB 

 are described, while a monograph of the Chilian members of this 

 group recently published by Mr. Reed, contains descriptions of 

 sixty seven species. The number of Lepidoptera described was 

 also remarkably small, only 110 species'; but Mr. Reed remarked 



