DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 95 



Mr. P. W. Bassett Smith, Staff-Surgeon, R.N., has made a 

 revision of the parasitic Copepoda, and has in hand a list of 

 the species represented in the National Collection. 



Nearly all the specimens of Crustacea obtained during the 

 year have been determined, hut in consequence of the croivcled 

 state of the cases in the spirit building it has not been possible 

 to incorporate them all. 



Various mountings of Crustacea under representations of 

 their natural conditions have been prepared. 



Arachnida. — The Spiders and Myriopoda of the Papuan 

 and Solomon Islands and of the neighbouring islands of 

 Polynesia, have been worked out in connection with the 

 preparation and publication of reports upon the collections 

 made in Funafuti and Rotuma by Prof. W. J. Sollas and 

 Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, and in New Britain and the Solomon 

 Islands by Dr. Arthur Willey. 



A manuscript catalogue of the Spiders of tropical Africa 

 and Madagascar has been prepared, and the spiders of the 

 African portion of the Ethiopian Region have been sorted, 

 rebottled, and identified, and reports have been drawn up 

 upon the species in the Museum collection from Cape Colony, 

 Natal, the Transvaal, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, British East 

 Africa and West Africa. 



The Indian Spiders of the genus Pcecilotheria, the Aus- 

 tralian Scorpions of the genus Urodacus, and the Neotropical 

 Scorpions of the genera Broteas, Centrums, and Vejovis have 

 been identified. 



The spiders of the genus Lathrodectus have been deter- 

 mined by Mr. F. Cambridge. 



The re-bottling of the Keysei'ling collection of spiders has 

 been completed. 



Insecta. — To illustrate certain phenomena connected with 

 the geographical distribution of insects, three large maps 

 with insects upon them have been placed in the Insect 

 Gallery. The genera represented are Carabus, Julodis, and 

 Stigmodera. 



Some large photographs and some additional specimens 

 have been placed on exhibition, illustrating the economy of 

 Termites, or White Ants, and a model of Willow with galls 

 formed by a saw-fly, Nematus gallicola, has been added to 

 the economic series. 



Specimens have been prepared, together with drawings and 

 explanations, to illustrate the classification of the Neuroptera, 

 and a portion of these exhibited. 



The whole of the Entomological Library has been re- 

 arranged, press-marked, and a rough catalogue prepared for 

 the use of the assistants. 



A manuscript index has been prepared of the genera of 

 moths in the collection. 



The remainder of the Merlin collection of Grecian insects 

 has been incorporated with the general collection. 



