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man nomenclature), having the full width of the southern wing 

 of the building and well lighted by a row of windows on each of 

 the two long sides, north and south respectively. 



Dr. Karsch, to whom the writer is greatly indebted for the 

 freest use of the collections during a six months' stay in Berlin, 

 has kindly furnished the following data regarding their more 

 important contents: 



GENERAL. 



The foundation of the collection was that of Graf Hofifmann- 

 segg, purchased in 1818 for 22,000 thales, consisting of 18,504 

 species and 550,000 specimens. 



Ehrenberg's collections from Abyssinia and Egypt. 



Charpentier's collection, more especially Orthoptera. 



The results of the Royal Prussian Expedition to Eastern Asia 

 in 1860-62, obtained in the Dutch East Indies, China and Japan. 



E. P. E. Friedrich Stein's collection of Palaearctic insects, 

 particularly of Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hemiptera and Hymen- 

 optera. 



Dr. Feodor Jagor's collections from the Philippines, Java and 

 Singapore. 



Dr. Theophilus Studer's collections made on the voyage of 

 the " Gazella" in the Atlantic Ocean, Kerguelen Land, the west 

 coast of Australia and Magellan's Straits. 



Dr. Franz Hilgendorf's collections from Japan. 



Dr. Peter's collections from East Africa. 



Dr. Rosenhauer's biological collection of larvae, pupae and the 

 objects serving the former as food, the insects mainly raised by 

 Rosenhauer himself 



Types from all orders described by Klug, by Gerstaecker up 

 to the time of his removal to Greifswald in 1877, and by Dr. 

 Karsch. 



North American species in all the orders are not numerous. 

 Of late years the African collections have increased greatly in 

 consequence of the activity of explorers in the German posses- 

 sions. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Types described by Schaum, Erichson, Harold and others. 

 Haag Rutenberg's types, especially Tenebrionidae. 



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