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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
By Dr. H. A. Hacen. 
THE collections of dry and alcoholic insects sent us by the 
Peabody Academy at Salem, Mass., is not only the most impor- 
tant addition of the year, but the largest ever received. The 
pinned insects filled three cabinets, besides several hundred 
large boxes, most of them crowded with specimens. The 
alcoholic insects filled several thousand smaller jars or tubes. 
Dr. C. A. Dohrn has sent in exchange three different lots of 
five hundred species new to our collection, Carabide, Lamel- 
licornia, Scolytide, and Anthribidz, among them many rare 
type specimens. Mr. H. Wilson and Prof. S$. Watson, of Cam- 
bridge, have presented us an excellent collection of Butterflies, 
Coleoptera, and larvee, which they collected in Livingston, Guate- 
mala, most of them new to the collection. We have also re- 
ceived valuable specimens from Messrs. Ph. R. Uhler, Baltimore, 
Md.; B. P. Mann, Washington, D.C.; Chas. V. Riley; J. A. 
Moffat, Hamilton, Canada; Lieut. Th. Casey and Dr. Geo. H. 
Horn, Philadelphia, Pa.; Messrs. Th. G. Wood, London, Eng- 
land; G. Kiinow, KG6nigsberg, Prussia; A. Bell, Nashua, N. H.; 
and R. Thaxter, Cambridge, Mass. 
Mr. 8S. Henshaw has sent us in exchange very excellent bio- 
logical specimens, among them a full lot of the types of galls 
and gall-flies from Florida published by Mr. Ashmead. 
Hl. A. Hagen has presented to the Museum (1.) a large lot 
of Neuroptera and Pseudoneuroptera collected in 8. E. Borneo 
by Mr. Grabowsky; (2.) three large lots of biological specimens 
collected in Western Texas; (8.) the types of Mr. Asa Fitch, 
Hemerobide and Chrysopide. 
The collection, as far as stored in the regular Museum and 
cabinets, has remained in very good condition. The others, 
