26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The additions to the Entomological Department have been 

 many and important. The first to be noted is the collection of 

 Coleoptera of America north of Mexico, bequeathed to the 

 Museum by the late Roland Hayward of Milton. During his life 

 Mr. Hayward was at all times a generous contributor to the 

 Department, and the collection devised by will containing as it 

 does the results of his well-directed efforts, is most appropriately 

 placed with the types of earlier authorities which he so faithfully 

 studied. 



From Professor Roland Thaxter's South American collecting 

 the Department will benefit largely. Professor Thaxter has 

 already given a considerable series of insects, principally Col- 

 eoptera ; he intends from time to time to add to this series as the 

 material is assorted. For other acceptable additions to the col- 

 lections of the Department acknowledgments are due Miss E. B. 

 Bryant, Miss Louisa Goldsmith, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas 

 Barbour, H. B. Bigelow, F. E. Blaisdell, Frederick Blanchard, 

 William Brewster, Henry Brooks, Owen Bryant, August Busck, 

 H. L. Clark, J. E. Clarke, T. D. A. Cockerell, Manton Copeland, 

 B. R. Curtis, Walter Deane, J. H. Emerton, H. C. Fall, B. H. 

 Hall, J. G. Jack, C. W. Johnson, A. P. Morse, J. G. Needham, 

 H. A. Purdie, Wirt Robinson, E. B. Williamson, C. C. Willoughby, 

 J. B. Woodworth, and W. McM. Woodworth. 



From A. E. Wight we have purchased a large series of 

 Jamaican insects of all orders, and from George B. King a col- 

 lection of Formicidae from all parts of the world ; other purchases 

 include the specimens collected by the Rev. P. H. Goldsmith in 

 Mexico and small series of beetles from Adana, Asia Minor, and 

 another from Western Africa. 



The services of Mr. Nathan Banks were engaged for one month 

 and were devoted to the Arachnida ; a large amount of miscella- 

 neous material was sorted, labelled, and identified and the bulk 

 of the Araneina is now in good order. The Museum is indebted 



