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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON
5. 

lection except uniques, has been prepared and sent to Prof. Friedrich Brauer of Vienna, who has published a new classification of the Calyptrate Muscidae of the world, but probably from lack of material at his disposal, our North American fauna has not been satisfactorily elucidated. 

4. The work of arranging in permanent shape all the collections. In the Lepidoptera the Noctuidae fasciatae, the Tineina and the biologic series have been rearranged, and accessions have been incorporated in the Rhopalocera and the Bombycina. In the Coleoptera, which, in the last report were stated to have been completely arranged, the incorporation of the vast accessions has necessitated a considerable expansion of the collection. In the Hemiptera the accessions have been all incorporated in the collection. In the Diptera the great bulk of the families have been arranged during the year, occupying about 220 unit boxes, but a number of the more obscure and difficult families are still mixed and unidentified.