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3. The additions to the collections of Reptiles and Fishes 

 have been incorporated and entered in the printed catalogues 

 as soon as the specimens were examined and named. The 

 rearrangement of the collection of Snakes and of Percoid 

 Fishes has been proceeded with. 



4. The rearrangement of the general collection of Land 

 and Fresh Water Shells has been continued ; 680 type speci- 

 mens from the collection of the late M. A. Morelet, obtained 

 by purchase, have been identified, by comparison, with the 

 original descriptions. The species of the family Ciispidariidce 

 and of the genus Spkenia have been remounted in glass- 

 topped boxes and arranged in their genera and sub-genera ; 

 the Australian species of ChitonidcB have been determined. 

 Collections of Land and Fresh Water Shells from British 

 Central Africa, Palawan, Balabac, the Sulu Islands, &c., have 

 been worked out and reported on. 



5. The care of the collection of Crustacea has been trans- 

 ferred to the Assistant in charge of the Echinoderms and 

 Worms. 



The manuscript list of the Scorpions has been nearly 

 finished. A considerable number of new species of Myriopods 

 and Scorpions have been described. 



6. Of the Pascoe Collection the specimens of the families 

 Lucanidce and Passalidce have been incorporated with the 

 general collection ; the re-arrangement of Phytophagous 

 Coleoptera and the incorporation of accessions belonging to 

 this group have been proceeded with ; a collection sent from 

 British Central Africa by Mr. H. H. Johnston, c.b., has been 

 worked out, and the new species have been described. 



7. The arrangement of the Lepidoptera, on which work 

 three specialists are engaged, has again made considerable 

 progress. The genera Cyanandra, Atarica, Euryphene, 

 EuTvphcedra. Euphcedra, Harma, and others have been ex- 

 panded and re-arranged ; and a large number of labels bear- 

 ing cross references to the Hewitson Collection have been 

 inserted in the drawers, in order to facilitate reference to that 

 collection, which, according to the terms of the bequest, is 

 still kept in separate cabinets. 



In the Heterocerous Lepidoptera the arrangement of the 

 tribe Noctuites has made further progress, all corrections of 

 synonymy being entered in the " Catalogue " and published ; 

 lists of the Geometrites and Crambites have been completed, 

 and part of the Phycitidce have also been arranged and 

 catalogued. Two large collections of Lepidoptera, sent by 

 Mr. H. H. Johnston, c.b., from Nyassa Land, others from 

 North America, the Falkland Islands, and Chili, have also 

 been determined and reported on, and, with a number of 

 smaller accessions, incorporated. The preparation of an 

 Index to Walkerian types, referred to in the Report for 1891, 

 and the labelling of types have been continued. 



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