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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



Additions to the collection of the department have been 

 received from Messrs. A. Agassiz, M. A. Barber, F. Blanchard, P. 

 P. Calvert, D. W. Coquillett, J. W. Freese, H. H. Lyman, C. J. 

 Maynard, G. S. Miller, Jr., A. P. Morse, S. H. Scudder, J. G. 

 Shute, Roland Thaxter, William Trelease, and the Peabody Acad- 

 emy of Science, Salem. 



Various portions of the collection have been studied at the 

 Museum by Messrs. F. Blanchard, T. L. Casey, H. G. Dyar, E. P. 

 Felt, C. H. Fernald, Roland Hayward, G. H. Horn, J. G. Jack, 

 A. P. Morse, F. W. Russell, S. H. Scudder, and Roland Thaxter ; 

 assistance has also been given to Messrs. P. P. Calvert, D. W. 

 Coquillett, H. H. Lyman, and Roland Thaxter. 



The entire collection has been examined three times, and though 

 not entirely free from pests, is, as a whole, in excellent condition. 



The withdrawal of duplicates and the condensation of scattered 

 material has relieved the department of various odd boxes and 

 cabinets ; the Loew collection of Diptera and a part of the Odonata 

 are the only portions of the collection not in the regular Museum 

 boxes and cabinets. 



A rearrangement of the cabinets, rendered desirable by the 

 increased space afforded by the additional room, has been effected; 

 the systematic and biological collections of Lepidoptera and Co- 

 leoptera are in one room, the other orders are in a second room, 

 while the third room is reserved for the library and laboratory. 



The routine work has been chiefly to facilitate the work of 

 specialists wishing to study the collection ; for this purpose por- 

 tions of the Odonata, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and 

 Lepidoptera Rhopalocera have been rearranged. 



Additional space having been granted in the North American 

 room, three boxes, two of Odonata and one of Hemiptera, are 

 ready to be placed on exhibition. 



The library has been rearranged ; a considerable number of 

 books have been transferred to the Museum library. 



