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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



Gifts of specimens have been received from Messrs. Outram 

 Bangs, William Beutenmiiller, H. K. Burrison, W. R. Cabot, P. P. 

 Calvert, S. C. Carpenter, T. D. A. Cockerell, J. H. Comstock, 

 C. B, Cory, G. F. Curtiss, James Fletcher, G. B. Gordon, Roland 

 Hayward, G. H. Horn, J. G. Jack, G. S. Miller, Jr., A. P. Morse, 

 G. A. Purdie, E. A. Schwarz, S. H. Scudder, W. T. Sedgwick, 

 Roland Thaxter, and H. F. Wickham. 



For an excellent life-size crayon of Dr. Hagen, by Miss Meisel, 

 the Department is indebted to Mrs. Hagen. 



The use of the collections and of the library has increased very 

 much during the year ; among the persons who have studied in 

 the Department at the Museum the following may be mentioned : 

 Messrs. A. L. Babcock. William Beutenmiiller, Frederick Blan- 

 chard, H. K. Burrison, J. H. Comstock, C, B. Davenport, J. H. 

 Emerton, Roland Hayward, G. H. Horn, J. G. Jack, C. W. John- 

 son, A. P. Morse, A. S. Packard, E. B. Poulton, F. W. Russell, 

 S. H. Scudder, Roland Thaxter, and W. L. Tower. Assistance has 

 also been given Messrs. T. E. Bean, H. K. Burrison, P. P. Calvert, 

 G. H. Cook, G. H. French, J. G. Jack, J. A. Lintner, A. P. Morse, 

 F. W. Russell, W. T. Sedgwick, Roland Thaxter, C. H. T. Town- 

 send, and the Biological Department of Wellesley College. 



We are indebted to Dr. F. W. Goding for the determination of 

 several Membracidse, and to Mr. S. H. Scudder for the identification 

 of our series of Ceuthophili ; a few Orthoptera from the Galapagos 

 Islands were also studied and named by Mr. Scudder (see Bulletin 

 Museum Comparative Zoology, Vol. XXV. No. 1). 



The collections are in good condition ; three days of each week 

 have been given by one of the Assistants to their inspection and 

 care ; the alcoholic Orthoptera have been assorted by families, and 

 many specimens have been remounted and labelled. 



