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at his request Dr. Gestro most obligingly furnished an account 

 of the entomological collections which it contains, and of which 

 what follows is a translation. 



GENERAL. 



The collection of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 

 is chiefly rich in Coleoptera, and is certainly richer than that of 

 any other Museum in Italy. It had its origin in the material 

 collected in Persia and in Borneo by the Marchese Giacomo 

 Doria, and in a short time has attained an extraordinary devel- 

 opment. To this has been added : 



The collection of Carabidae of Count Castelnau, purchased by 

 the Marchese Giacomo Doria. 



The collections of: — O. Beccari from the Sunda Islands and 

 from New Guinea; 



L. M. d'Albertis from New Guinea and Northern Australia; 



O. Beccari, O. Antinori and V. Ragazzi from Abyssinia and 

 Erythraea; 



Marchese Giacomo Doria from Tunis; 



L. Fea from Burmah and Tenasserim; 



E. Modigliani from the islands of "Nias, Engano, Mentawei 

 and Sumatra; 



Dr. L. Loria from southern New Guinea; 



G. Bove from the Congo, Terra del Fuego and the Argentine 

 Republic; 



L. Balzan from Bolivia; 



Bricchetti-Robecchi, v. Bottego and E. Ruspoli from Somalia. 

 . These materials have acquired particular iftiportance from their 

 having been examined and described* by specialists, consequentlj' 

 the number of types contained in this Museum is very considerable. 



The collection of insects from Burmah, made by Signor L. 

 Fea, principally of Coleoptera, possesses the greatest importance 

 from the number and variety of the species and from the great 

 quantity of types which it contains. It is kept separate from 

 the others. , 



Worthy also of particular mention is the collection of cave- 

 dwelling insects, which presents extraordinary interest from the 

 species recently discovered in the grottos of Liguria. 



* Chiefly in the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, now (September, 

 1896) in its thirty-seventh (seventeenth of the second series) volume. See the notices of 

 Entomological Literature in this and the preceding volumes of the News.— P. P C. 



