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collection were purchased the Paussidae, Rhysodidae and Euc- 

 nemidae. Of recent years numerous species have been described 

 from the collection by Reitter and Ganglbauer, Abeille de Perrin, 

 Baudi, Escherich, Fairmaire, Heller, W. Horn, Kraatz, Kuwert, 

 Joh. Schmidt, Schilsky, Aug. Schultze, Seidlitz and others. 



ORTHOPTERA. 

 Types of Bormans, Brunner von Wattenwyl, Herm. Krauss, 

 Josef Redtenbacher and H. de Saussure. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Old collections of Abb6 Mazzola and Podeoin; later the entire 

 collections of Ziegler, Baron Ransonnet, Schadenberg, Dorf- 

 meister and others were acquired. Best represented are the 

 palaearctic Microlepidoptera, contained in the rich collections of 

 Mann and Rebel. 



Types of Hiibner, Treitschke, Kollar, Zeller, Mann, Lederer, 

 Felder, Rogenhofer, Rebel, etc. 



RHYNCHOTA. 



The foundation of the collection was formed by those of Nat- 

 terer and Schott from Brazil, Ulrich from Europe, Mann from 

 Southern Europe, Bilimek from Mexico, and of the " Novara" 

 expedition. 



To these were added, in 1890, the great collections of Signoret 

 (30,000 specimens) and of Low (16,000 specimens), so that at 

 present there are about 15,000 species and far more than 100,000 

 specimens here. 



The chief value of the entire collection lies in the enormous 

 number of types of Signoret, Low, Mayr, Forster, Stal, Renter, 

 Spangberg, Distant, Bergroth, Berg. Puton, Horvath, Ferrari, 

 Lichtenstein, Lethierry, Fieber, Frauenfeld, Sahlberg, Riley, 

 Fitch, Uhler, Amyot, Hagen, Fowler, etc. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Old collections of Winthem and Megerle. 

 Results of the "Novara" expedition, described by de Saus- 

 sure, Mayr and Sichel. 



Tschek's collection (types of Ichneumonidae). 

 Collections of Kohl, Handlirsch, Kolazy. 



