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Department of Entomology. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Exhibition Series. — The only change to record in the Exhibition 

 Series is the addition of a cabinet of specimens illustrating the 

 various kinds of flies which serve for food to Trout and Grayling. 

 The collection v^^as presented by Mr. Martin S. Mosely and is dis- 

 played in a series of small glass cells, accompanied by figures and 

 explanatory labels and by a series of artificial flies, as used by 

 anglers, for comparison. 



Study Series. — In the Coleoptera, a large series of undetermined 

 Australian Rhynchophora and Phytophaga (Eumolpidse) was sent to 

 Mr. Arthur Lea for identification, and on their return by him incor- 

 porated in the general collection. The important named series of 

 Pselaphida3 and Scydmoenidse in the Sharp and Lewis Collections 

 have been incorporated, as well as the Japanese Erotylidse and 

 Endomychidse, while a considerable part of the general collection of 

 Endomychidse has been transferred and re-arranged, the African 

 genera worked out and many new species described. The new 

 species of Rutelidse from all parts of the Indian Empire have been 

 described and numerous types acquired by this means. The Bostri- 

 chidse have also been re-arranged. 



In the Hymenoptera, the arrangement of the Apidse has been 

 continued, the sub-family Bombinse completed, and much progress 

 made with the Andreninas. Mr. Turner, as in former years, has 

 continued voluntarily to devote a great deal of his time to working- 

 out the collections, especially those formed by himself in Australia 

 and Tasmania. Considerable collections of Heterogyna, named by 

 specialists, have been received and incorporated, the most important 

 being from Australia and S. Africa. The collection has continued 

 to benefit very much by the help of specialists, loans of specimens 

 having been sent to the Rev. F. D. Morice, Woking, and Mr. S. A. 

 Rohwer, Washington (Tenthredinidse) to Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 Colorado, and Dr. Franklin, Massachusetts (Apidse). Mr. Claude 

 Morley has completed the revision of the sub-families Ichneumonidae 

 and Cryptinse, while Mr. Waterston of the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology has continued work on the family Chalcididse. 



The collection of Anoplura and Mallophaga continues to grow 

 rapidly, several hundreds of microscopic slide preparations having 

 been made. The general collection has been removed to slide boxes 

 arranged on a system which will allow of a rapid expansion, while 

 the historic Denny Collection has been housed in a special slide 

 cabinet. A long report is in the Press on a collection of these 

 ectoparasites received from animals in the Zoological Gardens. 



In the Orthoptera and Neuroptera a considerable number of 

 accessions have been dealt with and many small collections named 

 and incorporated. 



