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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samdel Henshaw. 



For acceptable additions to the collections, the Department is 

 indebted to Miss Isabel Johnson, Messrs. A. L. Babcock, Outram 

 Bangs, C. F. Batchelder, Frederick Blanchard, Charles Bullard, 

 H. K. Burrison, P. P. Calvert, J. H. Emerton, W. G. Farlow, 

 Walter Faxon, W. F. Fiske, J. W. Folsom, H. G. Gallagher, G. L. 

 Goodale, Roland Hayward, Ralph Hoffmann, G. H. Horn, J. G. 

 Jack, R. T. Jackson, A. G. Mayer, G. S. Miller, Jr., A.-P. Morse, 

 A. S. Packard, Wirt Robinson, S. H. Scudder, F. A. Sherriff, 

 Roland Thaxter, C. M. Weed, W. L. Wilder, J. B. Woodworth, 

 W. McM. Woodworth, and C. E. Worthington. 



The Assistant has added several hundred specimens collected in 

 Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Many students and 

 specialists have worked upon the collections during the past year. 



The condition of the collections is highly satisfactory ; at the 

 last thorough examination, just completed, not a single case of 

 injury from Anthreni or other destructive insects was discovered. 



A revisional rearrangement of the Euchromiidas, Notodontidas, 

 Saturniidae, and Thyatiridaa of the Lepidoptera Heterocera, and of 

 the Scutelleridae of the Hemiptera Heteroptera, has been completed. 

 Several genera of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera have also been 

 rearranged, and some additional progress made with portions of 

 the Carabidae, Scarabaeidas, and Tenebrionidse of the Coleoptera. 

 The rearrangement of the large series of Cynipidous galls has 

 been begun, but is not completed. 



In the Leconte collection of Coleoptera the final rearrangement 

 of the Dasoyllidae, Rhipiceridae, Elateridae, Throscidae, Buprestidae, 

 Lampyridae, Malachidae, Cleridae, Ptinidas, Cupesidae, Lymexylidae, 

 Lucanidas, Scarabaeidae, Spondylidae, and Cerambycidas has been 

 completed. 



Nine large boxes of galls have been prepared for exhibition in 

 the Botanical Section of the Museum. This series includes some 

 of the more important and commoner North American and Euro- 

 pean galls made by insects and mites ; brief labels describe these 

 galls, and in a few cases the architects of the galls are shown. 



