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scure groups of insects, such as the Membracidae, are very rich. 

 There are also many types of Stoll, Boisduval, Saunders and 

 others, but really we do not yet know at all fully the treasures 

 ■of the collection until it has been gone through and arranged 

 properly. The late Professor, who knew it thoroughly, never 

 left a completcaccount of it and a great deal will require learning 

 over again. The Pierinae and the Sphingidae are now rearranged,- 

 but these groups contain few types, and the moths generally have 

 been studied, the Oriental by Col. Swinhoe, the American by 

 Mr. W. Schaus. The Cicadas are now being done, and the 

 Membracidae by Canon W. W. Fowler; the former contain some 

 types of Stoll. 



Many of our specimens are of great interest, being Wallace's 

 Malay specimens, and many collected by Bates, on the Amazons, 

 and by Belt, in Nicaragua, but the Wallace are the richest and 

 the most interesting in this collection." 



III.— CAMBRIDGE. 



Here, as at the sister University, the University Museum build- 

 ing shelters the Entomological collections, as well as those of 

 other branches of zoology and the zoological laboratories. To 

 the kindness of Dr. David Sharp, Curator of Insects, the fol- 

 lowing notice is due : 



' ' The Museum has a general collection of British Insects 

 which, however, is in certain groups of a deplorably minus char- 

 acter. It possesses the European collection of Coleoptera of the 

 late G. R. Crotch, and his typical collection illustrating his works 

 on Erotylidae and Coccinellidae There is also a small lot of 

 exotic insects, most of which were presented by the late Neville 

 Goodman, and were collected by him in the Amazons Valley and 

 in South Africa. 



" At present we have in the Museum a quite wonderful collec- 

 tion of Termites and parts of their Termitaria, formed by Mr. 

 Haviland, chiefly in Borneo and Singapore. This collection 

 differs from all others as it was made entirely from the nests 

 themselves, and thus contains the various forms of each species 

 which are wanting in all other collections so far as I know. I 

 hope Mr. Haviland may be able to describe this collection which 

 consists of about 90 species, of which probably as many as 75 or 

 80 are new. ' ' 



