MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



For additions to the collections the Department is indebted to 

 Mrs. G. R. Henderson, Miss E. B. Bryant, Miss H. S. Clark, Miss 

 C. H. Clarke, Miss F. M. Slack, and to Messrs. G. M. Allen, Outram 

 Bangs, Thomas Barbour, Frederic Blanchard, F. C. Bowditch, Wil- 

 liam Brewster, E. S. Bryant, John Bryant, Owen Bryant, W. E. 

 Castle, J. R. Chadwick, Walter Deane, John Dixwell, J. H. Emer- 

 ton, W. G. Farlow, W. L. W. Field, W. F. Fiske, J. W. Freese, G. L. 

 Goodale, Roland Hayward, R. H. Howe, Jr., J. G. Jack, R. T. 

 Jackson, C. W. Johnson, H. P. Johnson, Theodore Lyman, E. L. 

 Mark, Robert Meusel, A. P. Morse, J. G. Needham, A. S. Packard, 

 G. H. Parker, F. H. Peabody, B. L. Robinson, Wirt Robinson, 

 J. H. Sears, J. B. Smith, P. S. Smith, J. D. Sornborger, Roland 

 Thaxter, E. P. Van Duzee, E. B. Williamson, and W. McM. 

 Woodworth. From Mr. John E. Thayer, we have received some 

 Australian Lepidoptera collected by the late M. J. Flood, and 

 from Mr. L. J. Cole, a desirable series of all orders, one of the re- 

 sults of his Yucatan trip. 



The R. M. Grey collection of Lepidoptera has been obtained by 

 purchase. This material, though not yet thoroughly examined, 

 contains many species new to the collection of the Department, 

 and will help materially towards the completion of the series on 

 exhibition. 



A few Javan Coleoptera have been added, also by purchase. 



The Annual Reports for 1874 and 1875 acknowledge the in- 

 debtedness of the Museum to Baron C. R. von Osten Sacken for 

 his invaluable services in connection with the collections of Dip- 

 tera ; to these reports Baron Osten Sacken contributed statements 

 concerning the condition of these collections, and his work upon 

 them, a subject to which he returns in his " Record of my Life-work 



