32 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Two important accessions to the Department have been received 
by gift during the year; one from Mr. L. W. Swett consists of his 
entire series of North American Geometridae numbering some 7,000 
specimens, the second, due to the kindness of the British Associa- 
tion Committee charged with the investigation of the fauna of the 
Hawaiian Islands, is a series of Hawaiian insects of various orders. 
Other gifts have been received from Mr. F. C. Bowditch, (a large 
lot of Coleoptera, principally Chrysomelidae); Mr. B. P. Clark, 
(several rare Sphingidae); Walter Faxon, R. S. Fuller, J. W. Fol- 
som, (types of Collembola); E. D. Harris, (Cicindelidae); C. W. 
Johnson, (Bermuda Diptera); Harold St. John, E. A. Schwarz, 
J. E. Thayer, (Mexican insects of several orders); W.M. Wheeler, 
(Ants); and Mr. L. H. Weld. 
Accessions other than gifts, consist of some Mexican insects 
collected by Mr. W. M. Mann; Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from 
the Black Mountains of North Carolina and a series of North 
American Sphingidae (Denton mounts) for exhibition. 
Some revisional work of arrangement has been done among the 
Coleoptera and considerable progress made in locating and labeling 
the types of Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera. 
