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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. 



16. Mr. Fr. Sanborn. Biological specimens from the United 



States. 



17. Mr. R. Thaxter. Odonata from Florida and New Brunswick. 



18. Mr. C. E. Webster, from Binghamton, N. Y. CEstrus emas- 



culator. 



19. Mr. F. Steinda.chner, Vienna, Austria. A large lot of Lepi- 



doptera from Tyrol. 



20. Baron Osten-Sacken. A large lot of Neuroptera, collected by 



him in California, Nevada, Utah, and biological specimens ; 

 also oak galls from California. 



21. Mr. J. Behrens, Saucelito, Cal. Neuroptera. 



22. Mr. T. V. Chambers, Covington, Ky. A lot of Microlepidop- 



tera from Colorado. 



23. Mr. L. Cabot. Catocala relicta from Manchester, Mass. 



24. Mr. H. Strecker, Reading, Pa. A very large lot of Lepi- 



doptera, mostly new to the collection. (Exchange.) 



The additions to the Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Neurop- 

 tera are prominently important. 



A large part of the time of Miss M. Clark and myself had 

 to be spent in emptying about twelve hundred boxes needing 

 repair and new paint, in destroying the Museum's pests, and 

 watching the infested boxes. Now the insects are again in 

 good condition. 



Baron Osten-Sacken has published a monograph of the Ta- 

 banidse of the United States. The types are in the collection. 

 Some families of the Muscidse of the United States are now 

 worked up by him, and partly in England by Mr. Meade. 



The United States Lepidoptera, forming a separated collec- 

 tion, are now arranged and mostly determined. For the 

 determination of a large number of the Noctuidaa, the Museum 

 is indebted to Mr. H. K. Morrison : of the Geometridse, to 

 Dr. A. S. Packard. The Tineidse received a very valuable 

 addition by a large number of types presented by Mr. T. V. 

 Chambers. 



The general collection of Lepidoptera is now arranged for 

 Papilionidae to the end of the Satyridse, and a part of the 

 Bombycidae. The Museum is indebted to Mr. Strecker for a 

 large amount of determinations. 



