30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The collection of North American Coleoptera, the bequest of 

 the late Frederick Blanchard of Tyngsboro, is the most important 

 entomological accession of recent years; it contains more than 

 six thousand species, is well labeled and identified, and of perma- 

 nent value. Mr. L. W. Swett's types of Geometridae and Prof. 

 W. M. Wheeler's series of Formicidae (ants) are noteworthy. 

 The West Indian collections made by Messrs. Barbour, Shaw, 

 Thaxter, and Wheeler add many species previously unrepresented 

 in the Departmental series. Other accessions include material, 

 the gift of Messrs. Outram Bangs (large series of Odonata), Henry 

 Bird, W. E. Britton, A. C. Coolidge, J. H. Emerton, W. G. Farlow, 

 C. A. Frost, W. D. Hunter, Sinclair Kennedy, Theodore Lyman, 

 F. A. McDermott, E. L. Mark, H. W. Smith (very many of all 

 orders from Sarawak), and E. B. Williamson. 



Collections varying in numbers from a few specimens to sev- 

 eral thousands have been secured by purchase from Europe, 

 Africa, the East and West Indies. 



Considerable revisional work among the Coleoptera (Curculion- 

 idae) and the Microlepidoptera has been effected. 



