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being made by gift and bequest, while lesser donations of type 

 specimens and sets of special forms help to fill the smaller gaps and 

 render consultation of the Museum's store a necessity to every serious 

 student. Quite recently, by the will of the late Mr. H. J. Adams, of 

 Enfield, the Museum has acquired some 150,000 exotic butterflies and 

 moths, most of them in very perfect condition. The 68 cabinets and 

 the large number of store-boxes in which the collection is contained 

 are already in the Museum and no doubt ere long will be available for 

 consultation. It was not very long ago that the rich and unique 

 collection of the smaller Lepidoptera made by the Right Hon. 

 Lord Walsingham was most generously given to the Museum, and 

 now it is rumoured that another extremely fine micro-collection will 

 ere long find the same final destination. 



In the April and following numbers of the Knt. Mo. Marf. Dr. J. 

 H. Wood contributes notes on the various British species of the 

 Dipterous family P/ioruhte and describes the following species as new 

 to science: — Hypocera rrrer/idarin, from Stoke Wood; Aphiochaeta 

 siniulans; A. breviseta, from Mainswood ; A. atrimana, from Middle 

 Park and Westhide ; A. viajor, from Weybridge, from Mr. Collin ; A. 

 arv/ustifrons, from Mainswood ; A. hyalipennis, from Stoke Park and 

 Wood ; A. rnbeuYm^, from Hereford, in the house ; and A. loiKjicostalis, 

 from the nest of Ladm fuUf/ino.ws, at Darenth, found by Mr. 

 Donisthorpe. On page 173 Dr. Wood commenced a tabular 

 analytical scheme of the numerous species so far identified as 

 belonging to the large genus Aphiochaeta. 



In the July number of the Knt. Mo. May. Mr. Norman H. Joy gives 

 an analytical table of the Coleopterous genus Gyropliacna and describes 

 a new species, G. cunve.ricollis, and also adds another species, (i. hihamata 

 to the British list. The former is very near G. liicidida and the latter 

 will probably be found in collections mixed with G. laevipemtia. 

 Dr. David Sharp adds two new species to the British list of Coleoptera, 

 Strophosomiis cnrvipes, which he found near Bournemouth, and 

 Planemtomua flavicolUs, which his daughter obtained in flood refuse 

 near Brockenhurst. 



In the August number of the Knt. Mo. May. Mr. Bagnall 

 announces L'ej)halothrips nionilicornis as an addition to the British 

 Thysanoptera. It was taken by him in the New Forest in 

 August, 1911. 



In recent numbers of the Ent. Mo. May. further instalments of 

 new British species of Diptera are given from the notes of the late 

 Mr. G. H. Verrall. The species are llcrcoatotiius subsiwplicijx's, taken 

 at Porthcawl, Bridgend and Port Talbot in July 1906 and 1908; 

 GymnopternuH brevicornis, taken at Nethy Bridge, June 15th, 1905; G. 

 anyusti/romt, taken by Dr. Wood at Moccas Pool, September, 1910 ; 

 Chnjsotiissnaris, taken by Col. Yerburyat Porthcawl and in Glamorgan- 

 shire ; C. nielampoilim, from Brockenhurst, Porthcawl, etc.; ( '. varians, 

 from Lyndhurst, Rannoch, &c. ; Aryyra yrata, taken by Dr. Wood in 

 Herefordshire; I'orpliyrojia fracta, from Nethy Bridge, by Col. Yerbury 

 in June, 1905; Syntnnnon spicatKx, taken near Tarrington by Dr. Wood 

 in 1906; S. I'diyer {rK/ipcs), taken by Col. Yerbury at Walton-on-Naze, 

 Chi-istchurch, &c.; Achalcus inclanotrichiis, bred from Snailwell, Cambs.; 

 'J'hrypticKs dirisKs, from Nairn and Weybridge; T. lactiis, from 

 Weybridge and Porthcawl ; T. pollinoms, taken in July, 1905, at 



