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Butterflies of North America testify to Miss Peart's extraordi- 

 nary ability in figuring insects on stone. In the same build- 

 ing, a Mrs. Stevens, seventy years old, exhibits a fine colored 

 figure of Attacus cecropia. 



In the gallery of the Main Building, Mr. L. Trouvelot, of 

 Cambridge, Mass., exhibits a book of colored figures of the 

 Lepidoptera of Massachusetts. 



The educational department of the Government of the Neth- 

 erlands exhibits four wall figures of structural entomology ; the 

 Society for Public Utility, of Switzerland, a plate of figures of 

 Phylloxera ; and J. S. Bray, of Sydney, a photograph of a 

 collection of twelve cases of insects, of all the suborders, from 

 New South Wales ; all in the Main Building. 



Of insects used for ornamentation, there are' a few poor 

 exhibits. In the Main Building Melles. M. and E. Natte, of 

 Rio de Janeiro, sell the more brilliant species of Brazilian Col- 

 eoptera and Lepidoptera, for decorative purposes. 



Panels made by pressing butterflies and ferns between two 

 glass plates, and supplying a background of dark paper, are 

 exhibited in the British Department of the Main Building. In 

 the East Indian Department of the same building, is a broad- 

 brimmed palm-leaf hat beautifully decorated with a row of 

 green elytra from a species of Indian Buprestis. 



In the Agricultural Building, Mr. Richard Hartley, a tax- 

 idermist of Philadelphia, exhibits a fancy design and two fig- 

 ures of churches, one composed chiefly of Lepidoptera, and 

 the other a Coleopterous structure, made of nothing but spec- 

 imens of Chri/sochus auratus, Melanotus communis, and Chrys- 

 omela clivicollis. 



For the benefit of entomologists who camp every summer, 

 mention should be made of models of tents exhibit d by Da- 

 vies, Turner & Co., of London. Besides making some very 

 convenient combined tents and hammocks, the firm manufac- 

 tures a military tent, with camp bedsteads, suitable for eight- 

 een men, which weighs but six and one-half pounds per man. 



There are a few other exhibits of camping equipage, and, 

 perhaps, some of insects, overlooked in my hasty visit, but I 



