tracted much attention. There were also some very beautiful and interesting things among 

 the Coleoptera. The Curculionidae were very brilliant and numerous in species, with forms 

 greatly varied ; the Cerambycida; were also remarkable, handsome, and largely represented, 

 some of them of great size. We noticed one enormous Priontis fully six inches long ; the 

 Cetonias were also very beautiful. Some of the Buprestidte were wonderfully brilliant 

 with metallic shadings, and the Chrysomelidae very numerous,, and some of them very 

 charming, the Cassidw being largely represented. Among the Scarabeidse there were some 

 enormous specimens, among others, species of C'opris with remarkable horns, and some 

 brilliant species of Onthophafiits ; there were also a number of very handsome Eluters. 

 One of the rarities in this collection was a fine example of Ilijpocephalus ai-nudus, an ex- 

 tremely rare insect about two inches in length, and of which it is said there are only two 

 or three known specimens in collections. The more brilliant Brazillian insects, especially 

 the Coleoptera, are largely employed by the inhabitants of that country in the ornamenta- 

 tion of jewellery and other fancy articles, often associated in tiie latter case with the 

 feathers of their brilliant plumaged birds. 



In the Department of Queensland there was a large case, filled chiefly with Lepidop- 

 tera in a fine state of preservation, embracing many very beautiful and strange-looking 

 things ; almost the only familiar objects among them were specimens of Danais arcfiip/ms. 

 In this instance, also, none of the specimens were named, which detracted greatly from 

 the interest which would otherwise have attached to them. We learned that this collec- 

 tion had been sold for 6150 to Mrs. Brigham, of New York, a lady who, we believe, takes 

 a deep interest in Entomology, and who has a very large and handsome collection of 

 Lepidoptera. • 



The Orange Free State of South Africa exhibited two cases of insects, among which 

 there was a curious admixture of millipedes, scorpions and spiders, arranged in a semi-or- 

 namental manner. One case contained chiefly Coleoptera, with a few Hymenoptera, 

 Hemiptera and Orthoptera. Among the Coleoptera there were some curious and beautiful 

 forms, especially among the Cetouidaj and Cerambycidfe ; also some handsome Scara- 

 beans, Chrysomelans and Curculios. The second case was filled mainly with butterflies, 

 among which there were a few very handsome ones. That cosmopolitan species, " the 

 painted lady," Cynthia cardid, was represented by several specimens ; there was also a 

 Sphinx closely resembling the death's-head moth of Europe, and a Utcsthesia very like our 

 hella. Besides these there were a number of very curious and handsome moths, with a 

 few Orthoptera and Neuroptera. No attempt was made in the way of naming anything 

 in this collection, nor any effort at classification. 



An American gentleman, whose name I did not learn, had a very curious exhibit of 

 insects in Agricultural Hall, of a purely ornamental character, in three cases. One was a 

 circular arrangement, and was built up chiefly with butterflies and moths ; the other two 

 represented public buildings and were constructed of beetles ; the specimens were im- 

 mensely numerous and well preserved ; the whole arrangement indicating great ingenuity 

 and perseverance on the part of the collector. 



India had a very fine exliibit of silks, raw and manufactured, with the insects and 

 cocoons from which they were obtained. The Tusseh silk-worm moth, Anthercv paphia, 

 is very handsome, not unlike our poU/pliemus ; the cocoon is egg-sl)aped, and yields a very 

 strong-looking silk. The Bomhyx Uvttonix, or wild silk-worm moth, is also very pretty ; 

 in form it resembles B. mori, but its wings are beautifully marked and tipped with 

 brown. 



It was very gratifying to observe the prominence given to the study of Natural 

 History in the Educational Departments of many of the nations thus represented at the 

 Centennial. Nearly all of them had small collections illustrating the course of teaching 

 in this branch of study, and in nearly every instance Entomology occupied a prominent 

 position. In the model schools of Sweden and Belgium this was very noticeable ; also in 

 the Eussian exhibit, where there were cases of insects of all orders, including in many in- 

 stances the blown lar\ re very neatly set up. In the same department in the Japan exhibit 

 there were similar cases fairly classified, illustrating the various orders. The Chinese 

 make use of insects, too, but with them they are used as medicines ; among their materia 

 mcdica collections we observed dried cateipillars, the empty pupa cases of a species of 

 Cicada, and other similar substances, all extolled as possessing rare medicinal virtues. 



