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pernyi, S. selene, S. asmma, and 3. atlas. Other silk exhibits 

 are to be found in the departments of the Main Building occu- 

 pied by Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and New South 

 Wales, as well as from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Chili, 

 and Turkey, the last mentioned country exhibiting a very fine 

 lot of cocoons and raw silk. 



In the Agricultural Building, Portugal displays cocoons from 

 many different exhibitors, and Japan shows silk and cocoons, 

 and a few good illustrations of silk insects in different stages, 

 including a figure of the internal anatomy of Bombyz mori, 

 with explanatory notes, by N. Sasaki. 



There are only a few collections arranged to illustrate scien- 

 tific and economic entomology, yet several of them are excel- 

 lent. At the head of the list should be placed the collection 

 exhibited by the United States Agricultural Department, in 

 the Government Building. 1 This collection, numbering twenty- 

 six cases of insects arranged by Mr. F. G. Sanborn, classifies 

 the insects in accordance with the benefit or injury they do to 

 man. For example, " Insects injuring the Grape Vine, or its 

 Fruit," are represented in one case, and number thirty-one 

 species. Silk-producing insects occupy two cases. Thirty-one 

 species of insects beneficial as scavengers, and seventy species 

 beneficial by destroying other insects are shown. A case is 

 devoted to insecticidal devices, and another to insects avail- 

 able as food for man. A complete generic bill of fare enumer- 

 ating the delicacies exhibited in this case would offer Oedipoda, 

 Acridium, Rhomalea, Brachypeplus, Pezotettix, Phaneroptera, 

 Phylloptera, Stenopelmatus, Caloptenus, Notonecta and eggs, 

 and Corixa and eggs. 



In the Kansas State Building is a fine exhibit, consisting of 

 thirty cases of insects, of all the suborders, from that State. 

 The specimens in this collection are very good, but the names, 

 in some cases, are incorrectly given. 



Canadian insects are represented, in the Agricultural Build- 

 ing, by the best scientific collection on exhibition, consisting 

 of forty-five cases of Lepidoptera, twenty-seven of Coleoptera, 



1 For further description of this collection see Field and Forest, Vol. ii, p. 21-24. 



