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the collection of Dr. J. L. Le Conte, the collection of Professor 
Loew, and the collection of Dr. Hagen, packed in old-fashioned, 
unsafe boxes. As I stated in my last Report, they are in a more 
than precarious condition. There is no remedy for this state 
of things, except good boxes and equally good cabinets. 
A large part of the Salem collection, chiefly exotic Lepidoptera 
and Hymenoptera, was infested, and its examination and the re- 
jection of the useless material have occupied four months. For- 
tunately, the valuable types of North American Insects by Prof. 
A. S. Packard, A. R. Grote, and V. T. Chambers, and the types 
of prominent European entomologists, Zeller, Staudinger, Mann, 
Forster, Walker, etc., placed in better boxes, were in good or 
tolerable condition, and form now a valuable supplement to our 
collection. Of the types of Packard’s monograph of Geometrinze 
only four species are wanting, and nine described by him from 
specimens belonging to other entomologists. These additions 
rendered necessary a new arrangement of the North American 
and European Lepidoptera; they fill now 162 boxes. The col- 
lection has been largely used both abroad and here. 
Part III. of Rev. A. E. Eaton’s monograph of Ephemerina 
was published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of 
London. Count Keyserling has published two papers on our 
North American spiders in Vienna, Verhandlungen der Zodl. 
Botan. Ges., Wien, 1885. 
Dr. Meinert’s monograph of the North American Chilopoda is 
just printed in Philadelphia. 
Mr. L. Brunner has published a paper on the Orthoptera col- 
lected in Washington Territory. Mr. Ph. R. Uhler is occupied 
in preparing a memoir on a large part of the Hemiptera of the 
Museum. Dr. 8S. W. Williston has in his possession the Diptera 
collected in Washington Territory. Lieut. Th. Casey has pub- 
lished descriptions of a number of species of Coleoptera of the 
Le Conte and the Museum collections. 
A number of entomologists have visited the Museum and 
compared its types in the preparation of monographs. Among 
them, Dr. 8. W. Williston, for his monograph of North American 
Syrphide (O. Sacken’s and Loew’s collections); Mr. W. Blan- 
chard, of Lowell, Mass.; Dr. Horn and $8. Henshaw (Le Conte’s 
collection), for their new list of North American Coleoptera ; 
Mr. J. B. Smith, for a monograph of Noctuina; and Baron 
