These specimens were passed to Ryunosuke HOTTA of Osaka who was Tomoari's pupil, and later they were donated by a descendant of HOTTA to the Osaka Municipal Museum of Natural History.
その標本は、伴存の門人で大阪の堀田龍之介の手に渡り、後に堀田の子孫から大阪市立自然史博物館に寄贈された。