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From Africa (outside of Abbott collection) 50 speci-[[species?]] In the Orthoptera the North American Collection has been re-arranged, now occupying three full cabinets with sixty drawers and containing 597 species in 5925 specimens, besides numerous duplicates sepa-rately arranged. In the Neuroptera the North American species have been arranged in one cabinet with twenty drawers and count 348 species (only [[strikethrough]] 11 [[/strikethrough]] 211 species names) in 1186 specimens. In the Coleptera the exotic species have been arranged in 76 single and double folding boxes.

The number of species represented in out collections of this order is as follows:

Coleoptera from Europe-------------- 3200 species
Coleoptera from Asia----------------  236 species
Coleoptera from Japan---------------   63 species
Coleoptera from Australia-----------  312 species
Coleoptera from New Zealand---------  310 species
Coleoptera from Madagascar----------   28 species
Coleoptera from Africa--------------  450 species
Coleoptera from South American------  760 species
Coleoptera from Hawaii--------------   81 species

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