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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



Additions to the collections of the Department have been re- 

 ceived from Miss Isabel Johnson, Messrs. A. L. Babcock, Outram 

 Bangs, W. S. Bigelow, Frederick Blanchard, H. K. Burrison, S. C. 

 Carpenter, T. D. A. Cockerell, W. G. Farlow, J. W. Folsom, G. B. 

 Gordon, F. P. Gulliver, F. L. Harvey, Roland Hay ward, Brainard 

 Hooker, G. H. Horn, L. 0. Howard, J. G. Jack, R. T. Jackson, 

 F. C. Kenyon, A. D. Macgillivray, E. L. Mark, A. G. Mayer, A. P. 

 Morse, E. A. C. Olive, Wirt Robinson, S. H. Scudder, M. V. 

 Slingerland, L. W. Swett, Roland Thaxter, and E. V. Wilcox. 



The Australian specimens generously given by Mr. Olive, 

 together with those collected by Mr. Mayer, form the largest and 

 most important addition received. 



Material for study has been loaned to Messrs. W. H. Ashmead, 

 William Beutenmuller, 0. F. Cook, J. W. Folsom, W. J. Fox, Roland 

 Hay ward, L. 0. Howard, A. D. Macgillivray, A. P. Morse, S. H. 

 Scudder, and E. P. Van Duzee. 



The use of the collection and of the library continues to increase, 

 and attention to requests for information, identifications, etc., has 

 increased the number of contributors, — a direct benefit to the 

 Museum. 



The collection, though not absolutely free from insect pests, is 

 practically so. 



A revisional rearrangement of (1) the Mutillidae, Uroceridas, and 

 Tenthredinidae of the Hymenoptera, (2) the Sesiidse of the Lepi- 

 doptera Heterocera, (3) the Cicindelidae, Buprestidae, Cassidinse, 

 and Meloidse of the Coleoptera, (4) the Cicadidae of the Hemiptera 

 Heteroptera, and (5) the Ixodidae of the Arachnida, has been com- 

 pleted. Considerable portions of the Carabidae, Scarabaeidas, and 

 Tenebrionidag of the Coleoptera have also been revised. 



The specimens illustrating the Europaeo-Siberian fauna, which 

 have been on exhibition since 1885-86, have been replaced by a 

 new series, representing more than double the number of forms 

 previously shown, 



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