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and fourteen of other insects, all carefully preserved and 

 labelled, and tastily displayed. This very creditable exhibit 

 is made by the Entomological Society of Ontario, 1 and exem- 

 plifies what any active society can accomplish, by a few years 

 of actual collecting, towards determining a local fauna. Chas. 

 Foley, of Lindsay, Ontario, exhibits a few boxes of insects at 

 the same place. 



In the Brazilian Department of the Main Building is a fine 

 collection of insects from the Province of Parana, belonging 

 to J. Francisco Suplicy, of Lapa. This collection was exhib- 

 ited in 1875, in the Fourth Brazilian Exhibition. A case of 

 about two hundred well preserved Brazilian Lepidoptera is 

 exhibited in Machinery Hall. 



In the Main Building, the South Kensington Museum of 

 London exhibits a series of galls, and figures of galls and gall- 

 insects ; Queensland a case of Lepidoptera, containing about 

 two hundred species ; Victoria is represented by two cases, 

 one of about three hundred species of Coleoptera, and the 

 other of about two hundred species of Lepidoptera ; the Gov- 

 ernment of the Orange Free States of South Africa has on 

 exhibition two cases, containing about five hundred species of 

 insects of all suborders ; Belgium exhibits in her model school- 

 house a teaching collection, representing two hundred genera 

 of insects, while a few other countries are unintentionally rep- 

 resented by specimens of Bruchus emerging from leguminous 

 seeds in their exhibits. 



Mr. D. F. Taylor, Birmingham, England, exhibits in the 

 Main Building a large lot of gilded insect pins. This is ap- 

 parently the only exhibit of entomologists' special apparatus 

 outside of the case of insecticides in the Government Building. 



A few plates or figures of insects are exhibited. The United 

 States Government Building contains a series of about two 

 hundred and seventy-five octavo plates of injurious insects, 

 showing their mode of operation, by Townend Glover of Wash- 

 ington. 



In the Ladies' Pavilion, six sample plates from Edwards' 



*See A", w )~.>rk Daily Graphic, xi, 494-495, for notes concerning this exhibit. 



