128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE EBITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Entomology. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Exhibition Series. — A few additional dissections, with illus- 

 trative drawings, have been added to the series in the Public 

 Insect Gallery, while in the North Hall the exhibits dealing 

 with Insect Pests of Tropical crops have been, in part, revised 

 and added to, and faded and worn specimens replaced. 



Study Series,. — In the Coleoptera the identification and re- 

 arrangement of the Carabidae have made further progress, with 

 the help of Mr. H. E. Andrewes and other specialists. Oriental 

 species determined by Mr. Andrews, Australian species deter- 

 mined by Mr. T. G. Sloane, and Palpearctic species determined by 

 ])r. Jeannel, have been incorporated. The Staphylinida? have 

 also been considerably expanded and arranged, and important col- 

 lections of species named or described by Dr. M. Cameron incor- 

 porated. A large collection of Erotylidse from Indo-China made 

 by M. Vitalis de Salvaza has been named, and numerous species 

 described as new. A number of West Indian crop-pests be- 

 longing to the genus Lachnosterna have been described, and 

 revisions of the Melonontliine genera Ectinohoplia and Dichelo- 

 7norpha have also been prepared for_ publication. Mr. G. E. 

 Bryant has incorporated the collection of Australian PLytophaga 

 made by him, finished the incorporation of the Halticinse, and 

 determined several collections. Work on the Mordellidse and 

 Meloidse has also been continued, the palsearctic species of these 

 families being arranged, together with Camaria and allied 

 genera of Tenebrionidse. Collections of Heteromera from Meso- 

 potamia, Syria, Macedonia, Tonkin, and the Pliilijjpine Islands 

 have been determined and incorporated. The Heteromera of the 

 Dollman Collection from Rhodesia have also been worked out 

 and incorporated. 



In the Lepidoptera the expansion, rearrangement, and catalo- 

 guing of the family Hesperidae, sub-family Pamphilinae, of the 

 Phopahjcera hns been continued, all acces.sions, especially those 

 of the Godman-Salvin Collections, being incorporated in the 

 process; a certain amount of similar work has been done with 

 the liycsenidae, sub-family Theclinte. The Dollman Collection 

 has been worked out, all available duplicates required for the 

 General Collection have been incorporated, and a paper pre- 

 pared. The collections made by Mr. Godfrey in Siam have been 

 worked out with his co-operation, and a selection comprising 

 nearly every known >Siamese species and some 30 Types has been 

 made from them for the M'useum and a paper on the collections got 

 out. Most of the numerous minor accessions in all families re- 

 ceived during the year have been incorporated, and a number of 

 collections have been identified in exchange for specimens. Copies 

 have been made of Plotz's unpublished fioures of (unidentified) 

 Hesperidae, from copies kindly lent by Col. Swinhoe. A card 

 index has been started of all described Rhopalocera for reference 



