ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY. Ill 



About fifty other minor communications have been sent. 



The collection of CulicidEe has now been re-arranged and 

 has been augmented by eighty new species, and now contains 

 370 species, there being only, forty-four species not repre- 

 sented in the collection. 



Some 2,000 specimens have been received during the year 

 from various parts of the world. Most of these have been 

 examined. 



Some progress has been made with the Exhibition of 

 Economic Zoology in the North Hall. Cases of the more 

 important British orchard pests, root crop, corn, and garden 

 pests being nearly completed. A commencement has also 

 been made of an exhibit showing the chief animal pests of 

 woods and forests, and another of the animal parasites of 

 domesticated animals and man. 



Collections of economic insects have been obtained from 

 the West Indies (Imperial Department of Agriculture) ; New 

 South Wales (presented by F. V. Theobald) ; a collection of 

 silk moths of India (Calcutta Museum); a large collection 

 of Insect Pests of North America (exchange for British, per 

 Mr. Felt, New York State University) ; and numerous 

 specimens from various other parts of the world. 



E. Ray Lanhester, 



Director. 



British Museum (Natural Historv), 

 28 February 1903. 



