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for exhibition in the table- cases. The specimens of Volutidae 

 preserved in the drawers have been cleaned. Many generic 

 labels have been printed in place of the written ones, and a 

 number of English names for many groups of shells have also 

 been printed and placed on exhibition with their respective 

 series. 



Arachnida and MyrioiDoda. — In addition ;to the usual 

 work of sorting, registering, and determining accessions, the 

 selecting of specimens from material submitted for purchase 

 and the description of new species, the following has also 

 been done :— A report upon Mr. Stanley Gardiner's Maldive 

 Collection has been almost completed ; the collection of King 

 Crabs has been overhauled and redetermined ; the collection 

 of Opiiiones has been similarly treated and arranged under 

 generic and family headings, and the species of the Insidia- 

 tores, including several new and interesting genera, have been 

 described. Mr. Cambridge has redetermined the specimens of 

 the genus Latrodectus, and Mr, Hogg has worked through 

 the Museum material of the Australian Spiders of the family 

 SiJarassidoi, and named several new forms. In the exhi- 

 bition gallery a series of drawings illustrating the structural 

 characters of Centipedes and Millipedes has been prepared 

 and placed in the cases. For this purpose a number of 

 dissections had to be made. Considerable progress was made 

 with the Historical Account of the Collection. 



Insecta. — A typical series of Orthoptera of the family 

 Mantidce has been mounted and exhibited in the Insect 

 Gallery, with descriptive labels and drawings, and a series of 

 Caddis Flies (Trichoptera) has also been added. 



Some interesting additions have been made to the case 

 containing the White Ants (Termitida3), including a large 

 Queen's cell which contained two Queens. 



A series of specimens, with drawings and explanatory 

 labels, illustrating the life-history of the Hive Bee and its 

 allies, has been prepared and exhibited. 



The incorporation of the Longicorn Coleoptera of the 

 Godman-Salvin collection wdth the General Collection has 

 been continued and completed, the expansion of the general 

 collection by this addition having necessitated the transference 

 to fresh cabinet-drawers of almost the whole of the 

 Cey^amhycidoe. 



The arrangement of the Clavicorn families has been con- 

 tinued, and the whole of the accessions have been incorporated 

 up to the point at which the work has arrived. Examples of 

 all the species of Psela2)hidw existing in duplicate in the 

 Museum collection have been submitted to Mons. Raffray, of 

 Cape Town, who has identified and described them. They 

 have since been re-incorporated, together with the collection 

 from St. Vincent and Grenada, which has been worked out by 

 the same authority. The beetles belonging to the families 



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