immense accession of specimens captured by him and the 

 friends who accompanied him, and also kindly presented by 

 many naturalists who reside in Canada and the United States. 

 The work thrown on the Department in setting, printing, and 

 cataloguing, has consequently been so excessive that it has 

 been found impossible to include a complete account of these 

 and many other additions in the present Report. A brief 

 account will now be given, to be followed next year by 

 a complete description giving the numbers of specimens. 



Professor Poulton's captures (of insects of nearly all orders) 

 were chiefly made at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, 

 Detroit, Niagara Falls, Hartland (Wisconsin), Rat Portage, 

 Rush Lake, Regina, Lake Louise (Laggan), Glacier House 

 (Selkirks), Vancouver City, and Victoria (Vancouver Island). 

 Small numbers of captures were also made at a very large 

 number of localities on the Canadian Pacific Railway. 



Professor Meldola, F.R.S., also captured and presented 

 a very large number of specimens from the Canadian 

 localities. 



In Chicago, Professor Wheeler and Professor Watase cap- 

 tured many specimens for the Hope Department, and the 

 former also presented some valuable specimens from his own 

 collection for the series on Mimicry, &c. In Hartland, 

 Professor Poulton was kindly helped by Dr. G. W. Peckham, 

 who also presented specimens, chiefly of Aculeate Hymen- 

 optera, he had previously captured. 



At Victoria he received much kind assistance from Dr. E. 

 Crompton (of Victoria), from E. A. Carew- Gibson, Esq. (of 

 Victoria), from Dr. Kirker (of Esquimalt), and from Professor 

 Fitzgerald, F.R.S. Furthermore a fine collection of insects, 

 chiefly Lepidoptera, from the neighbourhood of Victoria was 

 presented by the captors, Dr. E. Crompton and F. Crompton, 

 Esq. These will be of the greatest value to the Hope Col- 

 lection. A small set of insects from the neighbourhood of 

 Victoria was presented by E. Baynes Reed,JEsq., of Victoria, 

 and another from Vancouver City, by C. A. Ellis, Esq., of 

 Vancouver. 



Valuable collections from Ottawa and from Virden (Maui- 



