MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 21 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Nathan Banks. 



The most notable accession of the year is the A. P. Morse col- 

 lection, containing about 50,000 specimens, largely Orthoptera, 

 including numerous types and long series of many species. Besides 

 the Orthoptera there is useful material, especially in the Hemip- 

 tera and Hymenoptera. 



From Mr. J. Steinbach was obtained a large and valuable lot of 

 Bolivian insects, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Neurop- 

 tera. Mr. E. B. Williamson has continued to send additions to 

 the Odonata, and Dr. William Barnes, in naming our Ptero- 

 phoridae, added some species, including paratypes. European 

 Hymenoptera and Diptera, new to the collection, were purchased 

 from Mr. Charles Sajo. Other material has come through the 

 kindness of Messrs. C. F. Baker, Outram Bangs, W. S. Blatchley, 

 W. S. Brooks, C. A. Frost, C. W. Johnson, Roland Thaxter, and 

 W. M. Wheeler. 



Mr. L. H. Weld, who carefully studied the Cynipidae, arranged 

 an exchange with the National Museum, which increased this 

 family to 365 species. 



The condition of the collection is about as it has been for several 

 years; the Ascalaphidae and Panorpidae were arranged in new 

 boxes. Over 3,000 types have been verified and marked; the 

 Diptera contain 1,856 types, and the Neuroptera 2,150, of which 

 500 are Odonata. 



About 4,000 specimens were pinned, and species labels attached 

 to several thousand others. Nearly 500 Orthoptera were spread, 

 and the Fiji insect^ repinned and spread. Various lots that were 

 on loan have been returned, in some cases with additional species. 



Besides the local entomologists, visitors to study the collection 

 were exceptionally numerous: — J. Bequaert, Psammocharidae; 



