DEPARTMENT OF INSECTS. 



195 



European Lepidoptera, classified and named, giviuj^ a lair 

 idea of the fauna : 



Eight unit boxes containing 



Japanese butterllies and mollis : 



Four unit boxes containing 



Exotic Lei)idoptera, various localities: 



One case, containing 



Brazilian butterflies : 



One case, containing 



Mexican Lepidoptera : 



One case, containing 



South American Lepidoptera : 



One case, containing 1 



European Coleoptera, illustrating the more common species 



Two unit boxes, containing 



Mexican Coleoptera: 



One box, containing 



Central American Coleoptera: 



One box, containing 



Total 



It would thus appear in a suimnarized form that there are on exhibi- 

 tion: 



Economic collection.., 



Forestry insects 



Galls and gall insects 



Silk culture 



Insect architecture 



Synoptic collection ... 

 Show collection 



Total on exhibition 



Machinery, pumps, bellows, etc 



Poisons 



Framed pictures, not counting those in boxes. 



Species. 



502 

 275 

 212 

 56 

 30 

 152 

 870 



2, 097 



Specimens. 



944 



387 

 212 



;{oo 



30 



329 



3, 276 



5,478 



Samjjles 



of 



work. 



270 

 145 

 212 



300 

 30 



957 



95 

 40 

 90 



In formally donating my private collection, I submitted a year ago, 

 at the request of the Assistant Secretary, a statement of the condition 

 and extent of the systematic or study collection, which included, be- 

 sides my own already alluded to, the collection projx^r of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This last comprised some five hundred folding 

 boxes and one hundred and twenty-three odd boxes, many of them but 

 partly filled and duplicating in great measure those in the Kiley collec- 

 tion. It also contained a large assortment of slides and alcoholic speci- 

 mens accumulated during the past seven years. There were also some 

 tweuty-foar hanging glass drawers, prepared by the late F. G. Sanborn 



