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The inoDograph of the Koctuid?e, referred to in the previous report, 

 has received soaie small additions, several geuera having been studied, 

 among them Homohadena and Oncocnemis. 



The papers published by the assistant curator and myself, as well as 

 by other collaborators of the Museum, are noticed in the bibliography, 

 the closing part of the report. 



I would refer to the last annual report for a statement of the con- 

 dition of the collections, which, with the preceding statement of what has 

 been done during the year, will give a very good idea of their present 

 state. There have been added during the year, chiefly from Califor- 

 nia, probably some ten thousand specimens, including many additional 

 species and some very valuable study material. 



A very large increase has been made in the exhibit series, but the 

 present state of that series, broken as it is in preparing for Cincinnati, 

 has made an enumeration impracticable. 



The last catalogue entry for June, 1887, was 349, and the last entry 

 for June, 1888, is 405. 



