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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



For acceptable gifts to the collection of the Department, the Mu- 

 seum has to thank Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham, Miss Elizabeth 

 B. Bryant, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, Frederick 

 Blanchard, Charles Bullard, Graham Carey, Henry R. Carey, 

 Walter Deane, W. G. Farlow, Walter Faxon, James Fletcher, 

 J. W. Folsom, R. M. Grey, J. G. Jack, C. W. Johnson, A. P. 

 Morse, G. W. Peckham, Wirt Robinson, Roland Thaxter, P. R. 

 Uhler, E. B. Williamson, and W. McM. Woodworth. 



Through Mr. Thomas Barbour's generous enthusiasm, the 

 Museum has some excellent representatives of Ornithoptera; of 

 the twenty-six recognized species, eighteen are in the collection. 



Other accessions include a large series of Central American 

 insects, a part of those elaborated in the Biologia Centrali Ameri- 

 cana of Godman and Salvin; a large collection of Odonata from 

 Burmah and Siam and some desirable Coleoptera from Sardinia 

 and from Guatemala. 



Another collection of European myriopods has been purchased 

 of Dr. Karl W. VerhoerT. There are 81 forms contained in this 

 series, none of which were in the collection acquired last year. The 

 Department has also received a number of interesting moths and 

 butterflies, illustrative of protective resemblances, of true mimicry, 

 and of Miillerian or convergent mimicry. 



Portions of the collections, both fossil and recent, have been 

 worked over. Of the fossils, some of the Jurassic forms have been 

 studied, catalogued, and a series selected for exhibition; part of 

 the S. H. Scudder collection of Tertiary Rhynchophora has been 

 labeled, catalogued, and arranged. Mr. C. T. Brues has studied 

 some of the phytophagous Hymenoptera from Florissant (see 

 Bulletin M. C. Z., vol. 51, no. 10). Of recent forms, the ticks, 

 and a large number of the spiders and of the myriopods have 

 been rearranged. 



