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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vn. APRIL, 1896. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Calvert— Notes on European Entomo- Entomological Literature 114 



logical collections 97 Doings of Societies 117 



Snyder — Local list 99 American Entomological Society 119 



Weith— Insect coll'ng at Elkhart, Ind.. 104 Wheeler— The genus Ochthera 121 



Editorial 105 Ottolengui — A comparison of the North 



Economic Entomology 106 American species, etc 124 



Notes and News in 



NOTES ON EUROPEAN ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 



By Philip P. Calvert. 



(See the News for January, 1896, vol. vii, p. 4.) 



IV.— BRUSSELS. 



The governmental Mus^e d'Histoire Naturelle in the Pare 

 Leopold in Brussels, opened in 1891, and famed for its skeletons 

 of gigantic Jurassic and Cretaceous Reptilia, contains an exten- 

 sive collection of Insects on the uppermost floor. The large 

 room in which they are contained is lighted from above, and, 

 although not separated by partitions from parts of the same floor 

 to which the public is admitted, is open only to students and to 

 special visitors. On an adjoining corridor are smaller rooms for 

 study. 



The specimens are contained in rabbeted, glass-topped, wooden 

 boxes arranged as drawers, but with a considerable interval be- 

 tween each one and that next above. The drawer-cases are open 

 in front except for a strip, about three inches wide, at one side by 

 which the drawers of each case are locked in place. 



The specimens are being carefully labeled, and a very con- 

 siderable part of this work has already been completed. The 

 labels employed are of two kinds (i) individual and (2) specific. 



