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The Exotics of the Belfrage collection were also purchased by the 

 Department of Agriculture and turned over to the Museum. Since that 

 time there has been acquired the Lepidoptera collection of Mr. O. Meske, 

 in its. day one. of the-best and most complete, my own collections in Co- 

 leuptera and Lepidoptera, rich in both orders and typical in some fami- 

 lies of eacli, and the remnants of the Morrison Collection, principally 

 Coleoptera. 



Tl'e sources of income in addition, have been from the continuous 

 breeding and collections of the Entomological Division of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and its agents, the deposit of types described in 

 Museum publications and the ordinary accessions from Government ex- 

 peditions and Smithsonian correspondents. 



To review special orders — we are most rich in Lepidoptera, both 

 Macros and Micros, without reaching the level of the best individual col- 

 lections in either branch. In the American series however, we have a 

 very large proportion of unique and typical material. 



In Coleopteia our material is richer than in any individual collection 

 save those especially enumerated in the first part of this paper. 



In the Diptera we have an exceedingly rich, if somewhat unarranged 

 material. In Syrphidte we have nearly all of Dr. Williston's types and 

 an almost if not quite complete representation of described species. 



■ In Bombyliidoe we have many of Mr. Coquillett's types, and fully 

 tw^ce as many 'speties as are enumerated in Osten-Sacken's Catalogue. In 

 many other families the collection is proportionately rich. 



' In Hyineiioptera we have a very large material, much of it well de- 

 termined. The numerous parasitic forms bred in the Department work 

 have all passed through ]Mr. Howard's hands and are accurately determ- 

 ined, the Cynipids have been arranged by Mr. Ashmead, and in Apidce 

 our material is especially rich. 



Specialists in all these orders will find much that is new and rare in 

 our collections. 



In Orthoptera our collections are especially rich and well determ- 

 ined ; Thomas, Riley and Bruner having been over parts or all of it. 

 Mr. Bruner has been of late in connection with Prof. Riley accumulating 

 material for a monograph of the Acrididce and this material will also go 

 to the Museum. 



In Hcmiptera our collection is good, without being remarkable in 

 any particular: it has been worked over by Prof Osborn, and parts of it 

 by Prof Uhler. 



In Ncuroptera, our collection is undeniably poor, except perhaps in 

 early stages, though probably next in importance to that at Cambridge 

 as the order is so very generally neglected by collectors. 



