MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ae 
REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
THE most important accession to the Entomological Department 
is the collection of the late Dr. A. S. Packard of Brown Univer- 
sity. Dr. Packard left the disposition of his collections to his son, 
Mr. A. A. Packard, who gives the entomological material without 
restriction to the Museum. It consists of insects, dry, alcoholic, 
and microscopic, and represents Dr. Packard’s entomological work 
from 1878 till his death. The collection will require careful, 
critical study, but is of especial importance to the Museum and to 
science, as the insects accumulated by Dr. Packard during his ¢on- 
nection with the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem, are a 
part of the collection of the Museum (see Report, 1885-86, pp. 
22-23). For additional gifts the Department is indebted to 
Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, F. EK. Blaisdell, J. H. 
Blake, F. C. Bowditch, Henry Brooks, Owen Bryant, Walter 
Deane, George Dimmock, J. H. Emerton, I. A. Field, Charles 
Fuchs, J. G. Jack, C. W. Johnson, Frederick Knab, E. L. Mark, 
A. P. Morse, J. G. Needham, A. R, Perry, Alexander Petrunké- 
vitch, F, W. Putnam, Wirt Robinson, J. D. Sherman, F. A. Sher- 
riff, A. H. Thayer, E, C, Van Dyke, and HK. B. Williamson. A 
valuable series of Syntomidae from the vicinity of Corocito, 
Venezuela, a number of Coleoptera from Java, and a small set of 
Nova Scotian insects should also be noted among the accessions of 
the year. | 
A revisional rearrangement of the Heliconidae, Acraeidae, and 
a part of the Noctuidae of the Lepidoptera and of the Gomphidae 
of the Odonata has been completed ; some of the fossil insects 
have been arranged and labelled and the entire collection of micro- 
scopic slides has been arranged. 
