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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Dr. H. A. Hagen. 



The collections of dry and alcoholic insects sent us by the 

 Peabody Academy at Salem, Mass., is not only the most impor- 

 tant addition of the year, but the largest ever received. The 

 pinned insects filled three cabinets, besides several hundred 

 large boxes, most of them crowded with specimens. The 

 alcoholic insects filled several thousand smaller jars or tubes. 



Dr. C. A. Dohrn has sent in exchange three different lots of 

 five hundred species new to our collection, Carabidse, Lamel- 

 licornia, Scolytidse, and Anthribidae, among them many rare 

 type specimens. Mr. H. Wilson and Prof. S. Watson, of Cam- 

 bridge, have presented us an excellent collection of Butterflies, 

 Coleoptera, and larvse, which they collected in Livingston, Guate- 

 mala, most of them new to the collection. We have also re- 

 ceived valuable specimens from Messrs. Ph. R. Uhler, Baltimore, 

 Md. ; B. P. Mann, Washington, D. C. ; Chas. V. Riley; J. A. 

 Moffat, Hamilton, Canada; Lieut. Th. Casey and Dr. Geo. H. 

 Horn, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Messrs. Th. G. Wood, London, Eng- 

 land ; G. Kiinow, Konigsberg, Prussia ; A. Bell, Nashua, N. H. ; 

 and R. Thaxter, Cambridge, Mass. 



Mr. S. Henshaw has sent us in exchange very excellent bio- 

 logical specimens, among them a full lot of the types of galls 

 and gall-flies from Florida published by Mr. Ashmead. 



H. A. Hagen has presented to the Museum (1.) a large lot 

 of Neuroptera and Pseudoneuroptera collected in S. E. Borneo 

 by Mr. Grabowsky ; (2.) three large lots of biological specimens 

 collected in Western Texas; (3.) the types of Mr. Asa Fitch, 

 Hemerobidee and Chrysopidse. 



The collection, as far as stored in the regular Museum and 

 cabinets, has remained in very good condition. The others, 



