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REPOET ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Br Dr. H. A. Hagen. 



Mr. Herbert Smith has sent his large collection of Centro- 

 Brazilian species of Pseudoneuroptera and Neuroptera to the 

 Museum for determination, with the privilege of retaining new- 

 species for the Museum. 



Mr. F. D. Godman, of London, has also sent in the Odonata 

 of Central America for description for his Biologia Centrali 

 Americana, and has most kindly given permission to retain for 

 the Museum a full set of the duplicates. This collection con- 

 tains 3,248 specimens. There is little doubt that the Museum 

 collection of American Odonata has from these gifts become the 

 largest in existence. 



As usual. Dr. H. G. Horn, of Philadelphia, Mr. S. Henshaw, 

 of Cambridge, Mr. J. G. Jack, of the Arboretum, Mr. P. H. 

 Dudley, of New York, and Mr. C. Cabot, of Brookline, have 

 presented some new and very excellent species, chiefly for the 

 biological collection. 



Dr. John L. Le Conte's collection is in good order, and 

 will be put in new cabinets, presented to the Museum by Mrs. 

 Le Conte. 



The numerous additions to the Biological Collection have 

 already been distributed so far as space would allow in our pres- 

 ent cases. Several new cabinets will soon enable us to complete 

 this work. Some parts of this collection have been rearranged ; 

 others are entirely new, and usually not represented in Museums, 

 as the Pulicidae, the Thysanura, the Ixodidse, Acarina, Malla- 

 phoga, and the Phytoptus galls. 



The collection of Cave animals is of very recent date : the 

 Blind Fish and the* Blind Crawfish, and the Cave Grasshoppers 

 collected in 1859 by Professor A. Hyatt, are the only ones repre- 

 sented. On the Surve}^ of Professor N. S. Shaler, a number were 



