30 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Mar. 



less known portions of the globe. Particularly to be mentioned 

 in this connection are the collections made by Mr. Caleb Cooke 

 in Zanzibar, and those just received from Mr. H. Edwards, of 

 Melbourne, Australia. 



The Museum has also obtained with *the Gray Fund, the 

 extensive type collections of Dr. F. E. Melsheimer and Rev. 

 Daniel Ziegler. The former of these was the first considerable 

 collection ever brought together in the United States, and was 

 commenced more than eighty years ago, by the father of the 

 present Dr. F. E. Melsheimer. Most of the oldest of these 

 specimens, notwithstanding their great age, are in a fine state 

 of preservation. 



The specimens of pinned Hemiptera which were sent to me 

 for identification, were returned undetermined, but the earliest 

 opportunity will be embraced to furnish them with their 

 names. 



I have been closely engaged in disentangling the mass of 

 confusion in which I found the insects involved when I came 

 here, and I have at length succeeded in placing the insects of 

 the different Faunae in separate boxes ; so that a species from a 

 given locality may be found when called for. The work of 

 spreading and setting the specimens is proceeding as rapidly as 

 the slow nature of the work will admit, and a considerable 

 number of boxes of specimens are now ready to be placed on 

 exhibition. 



Subjoined will be found a list of the names of persons who 

 have contributed to the increase of the collections, with the 

 localities, number of specimens and apparent number of species 

 received from each. 



Insects received from October 20, 1863, to October, 1864. 



Agassiz, A. 1 species, 30 specimens Diptera; 4 species, 80 specimens 

 Arachnida, from Mendocino, Calif. 1 specimen Alypia octomaculata ; 



1 specimen Lophocampa tessellaris, from Cambridge, Mass. Total, 7 

 species, 112 specimens. 



Agassiz, Professor L. Eggs of Telea polyphemus ; eggs of Cossus 

 Robiniae ; 5 species, 7 specimens Coleoptera ; 4 species, 4 specimens 

 Lepidoptera ; 1 species, 4 specimens Diptera ; 1 species, 1 specimen 

 Myriapoda, from Nahant, Mass. ; 15 species, 35 specimens Neuroptera ; 



2 species, 11 specimens Coleoptera; 3 species, 5 specimens Hymenoptera, 

 from Natick, Mass. ; 3 species, 4 specimens Neuroptera, from Nashon 



