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Insecta. — The arrangement of the collections has been con- 

 siderably hindered by the disturbance necessitated by the 

 introduction of new heating and ventilation systems, during 

 which the rooms were closed for several months. 



In the Coleoptera the Parnidce and Heteroceridce have 

 been re-arranged and all accessions, including the Sharp, Fry 

 and Godman-Salvin collections, all containing numerous types, 

 incorporated. The Trogositidoe, and a great part of the 

 Nitidulidoe contained in the Sharp and Fry collections, have 

 also been added. The classification of the Hyhosoridae and 

 related Lamellicorn families has been revised, the collection 

 entirely re-arranged and many new species described. The 

 Coleoptera collected by the Hon. G. Legge and Mr. A. F. R. 

 Wollaston during the Ruwenzori Expedition have been worked 

 out, and papers dealing with them prepared for publication, 

 and in the course of this work a very large number of African 

 Coleoptera have been determined, incorporated, and arranged. 



The undetermined specimens of various groups of Coleop- 

 tera have been brought together and sent to specialists abroad 

 to be named, and several such collections returned to the 

 Museum have been labelled and incorporated. A number of 

 types of Longicornia described in " The Fauna of British 

 India," and presented by Mr. H. E. Andrewes, and a series of 

 co-types of new Sumatran species presented by Dr. Gestro, of 

 the Genoa Museum, have also been labelled and incorporated. 



The arrangement of the Elateridce has been carried only 

 slightly further than at the end of 1907, but a considerable 

 amount of fresh material from the Fry and Sharp collections 

 has been added to the arranged part of the family. 



The MS. of the third and last volume of the Catalogue of 

 Orthoptera has been completed and the collection revised in 

 accordance with it. 



The Homopterous family Gercopidce and the sub-family 

 Tettigoniellince of the Jassidce have been re-arranged, the 

 Godman-Salvin, Fry, and other additions incorporated and the 

 new species described. The Rhynchota collected during the 

 Ruwenzori Expedition have been worked out and the new 

 species described, and a considerable number of Indian species 

 of different families of Homoptera have been described in " The 

 Fauna of British India." 



In the Diptera, the African Tahanidce have been arranged 

 and ail new species described, and the Pantophthalmidce have 

 been worked out and re-arranged, new species belonging to that 

 family and the Mydaidce having been described. The Diptera 

 of the Ruwenzori Expedition have been worked out and 

 described, and a selection has been made from a large series of 

 Diptera recently collected in Ashanti by Dr. W. M. Graham. 

 The undetermined Blood- sucking Muscidce from the Ethiopian 

 and Oriental Regions have been worked out and described. A 

 number of small collections of Blood-sucking flies from various 



