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locality and type labels, together with coloured geographical 
labels, the Spzngidae will constitute an exceedingly fine and 
valuable collection, in every way available for convenient 
reference: 
Mr. Holland has also named and classified the Zygaenidae 
and Syztomidae, so that these groups are ready to be arranged. 
He also in large part worked out the Heliconinae and 
Fleliconoid Danainae. Many of the more obscure species were 
taken to London and compared with the splendid Godman- 
Salvin Collection. I wish to express my sincere thanks to 
these gentlemen and to the heads of the Insect Department 
of the British Museum for their invariable courtesy, and for 
their kindness not only in granting me free access to the 
Collections, but in bestowing much time and trouble in helping 
to compare and identify the species. I am glad to think that 
we have been enabled in some slight degree to return this 
kindness by bringing a few of the types, and other specimens 
of the greatest interest, to London for examination and study. 
I wish also to thank Mr. W. F. H. Blandford and Mr. 
Champion for their kind help in the comparisons with the 
Godman-Salvin Collection. 
Mr. Schaus completed his work upon the American moths, 
and his valuable catalogue of the types in the Hope Collection 
will be published during the present year. 
Dr. Dixey has been arranging the Pzerznae in the finest of 
the cabinets purchased for the Department in 1894, adding 
the geographical labels and maps, and making out the most 
obscure groups. 
Mr. Sidgwick has continued his arrangement of the British 
Lepidoptera, and towards the end of the year has been helped 
by Mr. Pogson Smith. The butterflies and the larger moths 
are already arranged, and this part of the Collection has been 
found very useful by undergraduates and others who. have 
consulted it in order to name their specimens. 
Col. Swinhoe has continued his work upon the Oriental 
Heterocera, and the arrangement of this part of the Collection. 
In the rearrangement of the cabinets in the enlarged Hope 
Museum, three very conspicuous and unsuitable cabinets were 
