6. The A. J. Chitty Collection. ' 

 . This important collection, presented by Mrs. Chitty, was 

 acknowledged in the Report of last year, but at the time 

 of the transference in 1908, a case of recently collected speci- 

 .mens was overlooked. Advantage was taken of the carriage of 

 the Pascoe Collection to bring these specimens safely to Oxford. 



7. Work done by the Staff. 



The most important single piece of work undertaken by 

 Mr. W. Holland was the arrangement in six 20-drawer 

 cabinets of the general collection of Hesperidae (" Skippers "), 

 after the list prepared by Dr. G. B. Longstaff (see p. 9) in 

 the British Museum of Natural History. Thus arranged the 

 collection of Hesperidae will be of the greatest value. The 

 whole of the butterflies are now named and classified, but 

 the Oriental and African Papilios still require to be placed 

 in the uniform Department cabinets with interchangeable 

 drawers. As the collection grows fresh rearrangements are 

 of course required from time to time. Thus during 1909 

 Mr. Holland helped Mr. S. A. Neave (see p. to) to carry out 

 an entire rearrangement of the Acraeinae, in five 20-drawer 

 cabinets. He also spent much time in assisting Mr. Neave 

 in work upon his great Rhodesian Collection. 



Mr. Holland continued and completed the provisional 

 arrangement of the Coleopterous groups, bringing together 

 into eight or nine old cabinets the scattered material of thirty- 

 three of the smaller families, sub-families, &c. A still larger 

 piece of work, begun in 1909 and now completed, was the 

 arrangement, in fourteen 48-drawer cabinets, of the General 

 Collection of moths, which had been scattered through many 

 kinds of cabinets and in large part dangerously crowded in 

 very old drawers, and in even greater danger in the old store- 

 boxes of the W. W. Saunders Collection (see p. i). Ten 

 families of moths were thus transferred and rendered safe 

 in 1909, some of them (viz. the Castniidae, Satw^niidae, 

 Cossidae, &c.) containing large insects occupying much 

 space. The arrangement of the Sphingidac, after Rothschild 

 and Jordan's great monograph, was begun in 1909, but the 

 chief part of this work fell into the present year. 



Mr. Holland also completed the examination, begun in 1908, 



