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The collections made by Mr. H. K. Morrison in Georgia and 

 North Carolina in 1876, in Colorado in 1877, and in the 

 Sierras during the past year, would be of great value, if a set 

 of the specimens Avas kept together and sufficient pains were 

 taken to separate species which are superficially alike. 



The numerous collectors in New York and Brooklyn have 

 done much also towards working up their local fauna and have 

 begun to publish lists. 



Several industrious collectors in Buffalo, N. Y. have done 

 good work in this direction. 



We may hope that the labors of Messrs. Hubbard and 

 Schwarz are by no means completed. I have recently ex- 

 amined a collection of over 700 species taken by Mr. Schwarz, 

 in Colorado, in a few weeks' collecting during the past season, 

 and as this consisted only of the duplicales of the collection, 

 there must be at least 1000 species in all. 



Much has been done, though little published, towards work- 

 ing up the fauna of New England. The collections of Mr. G. 

 Dimmock and others, in the Connecticut Valley, will give a good 

 idea of the fauna of that section, which is very different from 

 that of the eastern part of the state. Mr. F. Blanchard has 

 made a collection in the vicinity of Lowell, Mass., wdiich is 

 probably the most complete local collection in New England. 



For Boston and vicinity, the collections of the various mem- 

 bers of the Club will furnish the basis for a pretty complete list, 

 as soon as some one will undertake to prepare it. 



Since the publication of my list of Mt. Washington Cole- 

 optera, materials have been gathered for a more full list of the 

 species of that region. 



Mr. S. Henshaw has been, for some time, collecting data for 

 a complete list of New England species. 



The materials already collected suggest many interesting 

 questions in regard to the migrations of species, and concerning 

 the former distribution of land and water on this continent. 

 Some of these questions have already been noticed by Dr. 

 LeConte and others, but it is evident that such problems are 

 only beginning to be studied, and that when collections increase, 

 and, particularly, when the great interior of the continent is as 



