24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samuel Hi.nmiaw. 



Additions to the collection, for which thanks are due, have been 

 received from Miss Isabella Batchelder, Miss H. S. Clark, Miss C. 

 H. Clarke, Miss S. C. Fogg, Miss B. T. Parker, Miss C. G. Soule, 

 Miss Gertrude A. Thurston and from Messrs E. P. Austin, A. L. 

 Babcock, Outram Bangs, Frederick Blanchard, G. W. Blodgett, E. 

 E. Bogue, E. L. Bouvier, F. C. Bowditch, T. S. Bradlee, R. S. Breed, 

 Henry Brooks, Charles Bullard, August Busch, C. L. Crehore, 

 Walter Deane, J. H. Emerton, W. G. Farlow, A. Fenyes, W. L. W. 

 Field, J. W. Folsom, J. W. Freese, F. D. Godman, Roland Hay ward, 

 Ralph Hoffmann, J. G. Jack, Frank Lufkin,E. L. Mark, A. L. Melan- 

 der, J. H. H. McNamee, A. P. Morse, J. G. Needham, A. S. Packard, 

 Wirt Robinson, A. B. Seymour, E. J. Smith, J. B. Smith, 

 0. O. Stover, Roland Thaxter, O. S. Westcott, W. M. Wheeler, R. 

 H. Wolcott, Walter Woodman, and C. W. Woodworth. 



Especial mention and record should be made of Mr. Emerton's 

 gift of New England and Canadian spiders. In a series of papers 

 published in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy from 

 1882-1891 Mr. Emerton enumerated 344 New England forms, in- 

 cluding 174 new species, and 100 Canadian species with 18 described 

 as new. The specimens presented include all of the New England 

 species, and 35 of the Canadian, and of the new species the types ol 

 all but one. 



Mr. Wheeler's gift of a series of identified ants is also note- 

 worthy. 



The condition of the whole collection is excellent. 



The work done upon the collection has been confined chiefly to 

 the Lepidoptera ; more than 100 boxes have been rearranged, 

 and the incorporation of the large series of Rhopalocera received 

 from the F. H. Sprague collection has been completed. The 

 greater part of the material from the Sprague collection in groups 

 other than the Rhopalocera has been distributed. 



