During the remainder of the year Mr. Holland began to 

 arrange the first part of the collection of Phytophaga (Coleo- 

 ptera), which has been examined and named by Mr. M. Jacoby. 

 A considerable part of this work has now been done, and early 

 in 1899 the arrangement of the general collection of butterflies 

 was resumed, that of the Satyrinae being already complete 

 in ICO drawers, while the Elyviniinae, Amat/msiinae, and 

 MorpJiiinae are worked out ready for the final arrangement. 

 Making some allowance of space — viz. 40 drawers — for the 

 Pierinae now being arranged by Dr. Dixey, the above-men- 

 tioned groups will, with those already arranged, occupy the 

 whole of the 400 drawers recently ordered and delivered in 

 November 1897 and March 1898. It is of the utmost impor- 

 tance that a further consignment, if possible of equal size, 

 should be ordered forthwith, and during the six months which 

 must elapse before the order is complete the final arrange- 

 ment of the butterflies must be postponed and that of some 

 other group undertaken. 



Mr. A. H. Hamm has been chiefly occupied in setting and 

 in printing labels for the additions to the Collection, especially 

 the large number of specimens (over 3,000) brought by Prof. 

 Poulton from Canada and the United States in September 

 1897. These specimens were captured, generally a few at 

 a time, in so many different localities that the labour involved 

 in labelling them has been very severe. He has also reset 

 the butterflies, which have been arranged by Dr. Dixey and 

 Mr. Holland in the general Collection, so far as they required 

 it. The work upon the Pierinae arranged by Dr. Dixey has 

 been especially troublesome, because of the flimsy condition 

 of many of the older specimens. 



Towards the latter part of the year Mr. Hamm arranged 

 the Collection of British Hymenoptera Aculeata (ants, bees, 

 wasps, &c.), which had been kindly named by Mr. Edward 

 Saunders. A large amount of preliminary work upon these 

 insects had been done by Miss Cecil Vernon Harcourt in the 

 previous years. The Collection occupies 30 drawers, and is 

 now in a most efficient state. 



In addition to his work for the Department the Delegates 

 employ one-fourth of Mr. Hamm's time in printing for the 



