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the collection of Dr. J. L. Le Conte, the collection of Professor 

 Loew, and the collection of Dr. Hagen, packed in old-fashioned, 

 unsafe boxes. As I stated in my last Report, they are in a more 

 than precarious condition. There is no remedy for this state 

 of things, except good boxes and equally good cabinets. 



A large part of the Salem collection, chiefly exotic Lepidoptera 

 and Hymenoptera, was infested, and its examination and the re- 

 jection of the useless material have occupied four months. For- 

 tunately, the valuable types of North American Insects by Prof. 

 A. S. Packard, A. R. Grote, and V. T. Chambers, and the types 

 of prominent European entomologists, Zeller, Staudinger, Mann, 

 Forster, Walker, etc., placed in better boxes, were in good or 

 tolerable condition, and form now a valuable supplement to our 

 collection. Of the types of Packard's monograph of Geometrinae 

 only four species are wanting, and nine described by him from 

 specimens belonging to other entomologists. These additions 

 rendered necessary a new arrangement of the North American 

 and European Lepidoptera ; they fill now 162 boxes. The col- 

 lection has been largely used both abroad and here. 



Part III. of Rev. A. E. Eaton's monograph of Ephemerina 

 was published in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society of 

 London. Count Keyserling has published two papers on our 

 North American spiders in Vienna, Verhandlungen der Zool. 

 Botan. Ges., Wien, 1885. 



Dr. Meinert's monograph of the North American Chilopoda is 

 just printed in Philadelphia. 



Mr. L. Brunner has published a paper on the Orthoptera col- 

 lected in Washington Territory. Mr. Ph. R. Uhler is occupied 

 in preparing a memoir on a large part of the Hemiptera of the 

 Museum. Dr. S. W. Williston has in his possession the Diptera 

 collected in Washington Territory. Lieut. Th. Casey has pub- 

 lished descriptions of a number of species of Coleoptera of the 

 Le Conte and the Museum collections. 



A number of entomologists have visited the Museum and 

 compared its types in the preparation of monographs. Among 

 them, Dr. S. W. Williston, for his monograph of North American 

 Syrphidae (O. Sacken's and Loew's collections) ; Mr. W. Blan- 

 chard, of Lowell, Mass. ; Dr. Horn and S. Henshaw (Le Conte's 

 collection), for their new list of North American Coleoptera; 

 Mr. J. B. Smith, for a monograph of Noctuina ; and Baron 



