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Depaktment of Entomology. 



T. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Exhibition Series. — Some interesting additions, including 

 a piece of worm-eaten oak from the roof of Westminster Hall, 

 have been added to the series of economic specimens exhibited 

 in the North Hall. Few changes have been made in the 

 exhibition cases placed in the Insect Gallery, but a considerable 

 amount of work has been done in the preparation of specimens 

 for exhibition there, which will illustrate the various kinds of 

 " flies " that serve as food for trout and grayling, and are of 

 interest to anglers. Mr. Martin E. Mosely, who had presented 

 a collection of these specimens, has voluntarily given much 

 assistance in mounting and preparing them for exhibition. 



Study Series. — The systematic arrangement of the collec- 

 tions in cabinet drawers, and the preparation and incorporation 

 of specimens from the vast number of accessions have continued 

 to make satisfactory progress, although there has been a falling 

 off in this respect during the last four or five months of the 

 year owing to the absence on military service of several 

 members of the staff of the Department. The loss experienced 

 through this cause has, however, to some extent been compen- 

 sated for by the generosity of Mr. F. D. Godman. who has 

 permitted Mr. G. C. Champion and Mr. A. Cant to devote most 

 of their time to the work of the Department, and to render 

 valuable assistance in various ways. 



In the Coleoptera, the arrangement of the Rh3mchophora of 

 the group Cleonini has been completed in accordance with 

 Faust's Monograph of that group ; a further large series of 

 Australian Rhynchophora determined by Mr. Lea have been 

 incorporated in their places in the collection, and another set 

 sent to him for identification, and the Anthribidse from the 

 Fry collection, worked out by Dr. K. Jordan, have also been 

 incorporated. Smaller series of the genera A'pion, Sphenoptera, 

 and Bembidium named by specialists have been returned and 

 re-incorporated ; and the unnamed specimens belonging to 

 various other genera have been got together and sent to 

 different specialists for determination. Most of the types of 

 Lamellicornia received in the Blackburn collection of Austra- 

 lian Coleoptera, and all the accessions from Australia in the 

 family Cistelidse have been incorporated. The Heteromera of 

 the sub-families Bolitophaginse and Diaperinse (in part) have 

 been re-arranged, and a good deal of time has been given to a 

 revision of the genus Gonocephalum and of the family Pyro- 

 chroidse. Large series of unnamed African Longicornia, mostly 

 from the collections presented by the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology, have been named and returned by Prof. Chr. 

 Aurivillius, of Stockholm, who has found amongst them many 

 new species, which he has described. Mr. G. C. Champion has 

 revised and re-arranged certain groups of the Malacodermata, 

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