1877.] 191 [Annual Meeting. 



the entire New England collection of Insects. So far as ar- 

 ranged, it now consists of 



In Coll. Known N, E. Species. 



Hymenoptera 157 618 



Lepidoptera ...... 711 871 



Coleoptera 1810 2211 



Orthoptera 59 85 



Neuroptera • 65 135 



2802 3920 



We are indebted to Dr. Hagen for the revision and identi- 

 fication of all the Neuroptera, and to Mr. Burgess for a sim- 

 ilar service in the Diptera of the Harris Collection. The 

 Society will be pleased to learn, that the entire Harris Col- 

 lection, with the exception of the Cqleoptera, has been trans- 

 ferred to the new style of boxes, and is safe from the rav- 

 ages of Anthreni. 



. The biological collection has been partially rearranged, the 

 alcoholic material sorted, and a systematic collection of Cole- 

 optera partially formed by selecting the types of the differ- 

 ent genera. The Society is indebted to Mr. Henshaw for 

 voluntary professional labor upon this Department, amount- 

 ing to about seven hours daily for the entire official year, 

 and it is to be deeply regretted that we are not able to re- 

 ciprocate the substantial character of these services. 



The alcoholic collection of Reptiles has been sent to the 

 Museum of Comparitive Zoology, in charge of Mr. Garman. 

 This gentleman has kindly offered to name them, and under 

 the instruction of the Director, Mr. Alexander Agassiz, will 

 also add such species from their duplicates as are needed in 

 our collection. Mr. Garman has also been instrumental in 

 increasing our collection of fishes in the same manner with 

 selected species, and the Society has reciprocated with other 

 exchanges. Various departments in the New England Zoo- 

 logical Collections have been worked over by Mr. Van Vleck, 

 the accessions incorporated with the old collections, dupli- 

 cates picked out, and a large number of labels written. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. — VOL. XIX. 13 NOVEMBER, 1877. 



