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the rest of the Lepidoptera. The cabinets have been numbered 

 and labelled, find the preparation of an index to their contents 

 has been put in hand. 



The work of incorporating and arranging in cabinet drawers 

 the large number of accessions waiting to be dealt with, has 

 made considerable progress during the year ; so much so that 

 new cabinets provided were found to be not quite sufficient in 

 number, and in consequence the expansion of the collections 

 had in some cases to be suspended. 



In the COLEOPTERA, the rearrangement of the Tene- 

 brionidse has been continued, many of the sub-families having 

 been dealt with and all their accessions incorporated. Collec- 

 tions of unnamed specimens of many groups have been sent to 

 specialists to be worked out, and upon their return have been 

 incorporated and arranged as far as space permitted. Numerous 

 species of the genus Ontho^jhagus have been dealt with by 

 M. Henri d'Orbigny, of the genus Bembidium by Dr. Neto- 

 litzky, of Copris by Prof. Gillet, of Aphodiinse by Herr 

 Adolf Schmidt, of Pselaphidse by Major Broun, and of 

 Clavicornia by M. Grouvelle. A consignment of South African 

 Tenebrionidce, worked out by Dr. Peringuey, has been returned 

 and reincorporated in the collection ; and a number of 

 Australian Amarygminse have been sent to be worked out by 

 Mr. H. J. Carter, an authority upon that group. The Pythidse 

 and Pyrochroidse have been rearranged and all accessions 

 belonging to those families incorporated. A considerable 

 number of Anthicidse have been sent to Herr Von Krekich- 

 Strassoldo for examination and these have in part been named 

 and returned. The Japanese Lamellicornia of the Lewis 

 Collection have been incorporated, and a large number of 

 East African beetles of the same group have been determined 

 and added to the collection. Where the cabinet drawers were 

 too congested to admit of these important additions, the 

 genera contained in them have been expanded and rearranged. 

 Many of the Longicornia received during the year have been 

 determined and incorporated ; species of the group have been 

 identified for the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun, 

 and duplicates retained for the Museum, and a small collection 

 made on the Abor Expedition and sent by the Indian Museum 

 has been similarly dealt with. A commencement has been 

 made in sorting out into species, and determining, the very large 

 and interesting series of Lycidc?e from Africa presented by the 

 Entomological Research Committee during the last two years 

 — a series which in itself contains more species and a consider- 

 ably larger number of specimens than that already in the 

 Museum collection from the same part of the world. The dry 

 collection of Coleopterous larvse has , been revised and 

 rearranged ; and a good deal of time has been given to the 

 determination of beetles which have proved injurious to crops 

 in the Colonies or which are otherwise of economic importance. 

 Lieut.-Colonel F. Winn Sampson has again, as in previous 



