26 ANNUAL RErORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Bt Samuel Hexshaw. 



In the Report for 1901-02, p. 25, the accession of Mr. S. H. 

 Scudder's collection of the early stages of Rhopalocera was ac- 

 knowledged. During the present year Mr. Scudder has anticipated 

 his testamentary act and passed to the Museum his collections of 

 fossil and recent insects (see [C], page 34). It is difficult to 

 overstate the value of this donation, containing as it does a very 

 large proportion of the types described by Mr. Scudder in his 

 numerous contributions to systematic entomology. 



Additions to the collections of the department, for which thanks 

 are due, have been received from Mrs. R. A. Hart, Mrs. H. E. 

 Scudder, Miss E. B. Bryant, Miss H. S. Clark, Miss F. W. Smith, 

 Miss G. A. Thurston, and Messrs. W. P. Alcott, G. M. Allen, 

 Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, W. W. Barbour, J. H. Blake, 

 Frederick Blanchard, William Brewster, Laurence Brooks, W. N. 

 Bullard, August Busck, W. E. Castle, A. H. Clark, T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, W. M. Courtis, Walter Deane, C. R. Eastman, J. H. 

 Emerton, H. C. Fall, W. G. Farlow, W. L. W. Field, S. L. Friden- 

 berg, Samuel Garman, C. W. Halm, Roland Hayward, J. G. Jack, 

 0. A. Johannsen, C. W. Johnson, E. L. Mark, A. L. Melander, 

 A. P. Morse, C. J. Murray, J. G. Needham, H. L. Newcomb, J. T. 

 Nichols, Wirt Robinson, E. A. Schwarz, E. J. Smith, J. B. Smith, 

 J. D. Sornborger, J. E. Talmage, Roland Thaxter, A. H. Thayer, 

 A. E. Yerrill, C. P. Whitney, and E. B. Williamson. 



By purchase there have been added small series of Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera from Africa, of Lepidoptera from Florida and the 

 Bahamas, and of Odonata from Central America. 



A large part of the Scudder collection of the early stages of 

 Rhopalocera and of the Thaxter collection of Heterocera have 



