In the Heterocera an equally good showing in the number of 
species is made, but as the number of these vastly exceeds that of Rho- 
palocera in no case can any faunal region be said to be thoroughly well 
represented. The collection is tolerable rich in European forms. Of the 
species enumerated from North America in Grote’s Check List about 
one-half are found in the collection, and when all of the material on 
hand shall have been correctly worked up and determined the number 
will no doubt be found to.be largely increased. From Jamaica there 
are nearly 400 species as yet undetermined. There are fully one thousand 
species of Heterocera from Equatorial Africa in the collection of which 
only the merest fraction has been determined and no doubt many of the 
species are as yet non-described. The Japanese fauna is represented by 
nearly nine hundred species of Heterocera, among them the entire col- 
lection of the Hypenidz, Deltoids and Pyralids of Japan made by Henry 
Pryer which the writer purchased in October, 1887, from his now 
lamented friend,—fully 375 species, the majority of them as yet unde- 
scribed, a monograph of which he now has in course of preparation. 
In addition to these considerable collections there are large numbers 
of Heterocera from the Indo-Malayan region, derived from various 
sources, among them all the specimens contained in the collection of 
the late Dr. Rossler of Stuttgart, Germany. 
While not making a study of the Coleoptera and other Orders the 
writer has incidentally obtained much valuable material, representing 
them. There are over 2,000 species of the Coleoptera of North America 
in the collection determined by such eminent authorities as Drs. Leconte, 
Horn and Hamilton. To the latter especially the writer is under mani- 
fold obligations for many kindnesses shown in the determination of 
species. Jamaica is represented by several hundreds of species of Co- 
leoptera, mostly undetermined. Equatorial Africa is represented by over 
one thousand species, of which not more than five per cent. are deter- 
mined. Japan is represented by a nearly equal number of which not 
more than fifty species are as yet correctly determined.- The same re- 
mark holds good as to the Indo-Malayan region. The European 
Coleopterous fauna is represented by about seven hundred species mostly 
Carabide and Cerambycide. The Buprestide of Australia through a 
recent purchase are fairly represented. 
In addition to collecting the insects the writer has found it neces- 
sary, owing to the absence of any great public library in the City of 
Pittsburgh, to also undertake the collection of works relating to Ento- 
mology and has amassed during the past five years the nucleus of a con- 
siderable collection containing the Transactions and Proceedings of al- 
