DEPARTMENT OF INSECTS. 



195 





Species. 



Specimens. 



European Le])idoptora, classified and named, giving a fair 

 idea of the fauna: 



Ei^ht unit boxes containing . .. 



374 

 80 

 34 

 30 

 19 

 24 



200 

 63 

 46 



936 



Japanese butterflies and motbs : 



Eour unit boxes containing . 



220 



Exotic Lepidoptera, various localities: 



One case, containing 



6(j 



Brazilian butterflies: 



One case, containing . 



96 



Mexican Lepidoptera : 



52 



South American Lepidoptera : 



One case, containing . 



52 



European Coleoptera, illustrating the more common species : 

 Two un it boxes, containing .' . 



956 



Mexican Coleoptera : 



One box, containing 



516 



Central American Coleoptera : 



One box, containing 



382 







Total 



870 



3, 276 





It would thus appear in a summarized form that there are on exhibi- 

 tion: 



Economic collection .. 



Forestry insects 



Galls and gall insects 



Silk culture 



Insect architecture — 

 Synoptic collection ... 

 Show collection 



Total on exhibition 



Machinery, pumps, bellows, etc 



Poisons 



Framed, pictures, not counting those in boxes . 



Species. 



502 

 275 

 212 

 56 

 30 

 152 

 870 



2, 097 



Specimens, 



944 

 387 

 212 

 300 

 30 

 329 

 3, 276 



478 



Sample 



of 



work. 



270 

 145 

 212 



300 

 30 



957 



95 



40 

 90 



In formally donating* my private collection, I submitted a year ago, 

 at the request of the Assistant Secretary, a statement of the condition 

 and extent of the systematic or study collection, which included, be- 

 sides my own already alluded to, the collection proper of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This last comprised some five hundred folding 

 boxes and one hundred and twenty-three odd boxes, many of them but 

 partly filled and duplicating in great measure those in the Riley collec- 

 tion. It also contained a large assortment of slides and alcoholic speci- 

 mens accumulated during the past seven years. There were also some 

 twenty-four hanging glass drawers, prepared by the late F. G. Sanborn 



