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are sadly needed to protect what should be one of the 

 most valuable and useful collections in the Museum. 



GENERAL ZOOLOGY. 



Invertebrata. — The general Invertebrate series 

 has received considerable additions during the year, 

 most of the material received from the Manchester 

 Museum, Sir John Murray, Prof. A. Thompson, of 

 Aberdeen, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, of Dundee, the 

 Scotch Fishery Board, and Mr. Bruce, of the Scottish 

 Antarctic Expedition, having been worked in. 



Mr. G. C. Griffiths has continued to devote through- 

 out the year a considerable amount of time to the 

 arrangement and identification of the Greville Smyth 

 collections. The butterflies of the Lemoniidcr, Lyccenidtz 

 and Hesperidce have been arranged, thus practically 

 completing the classification of the Rhopalocera in the 

 Museum collections. 



The Hesperidce are only sparingly represented, but 

 amongst them is a specimen of the remarkable species, 

 Euscheman rarfflesi(C y the only butterfly known to possess 

 a fully developed " frenulum." This fact caused it to be 

 placed amongst the Moths by some authorities, but the 

 life history having been studied and determined by Mr. 

 T. Batchelor, of Brisbane, the result has been that the 

 characters of both larva and pupa conclusively prove it 

 to belong to the Hcsperiidce. 



Mr. H. J. Charbonnier, who in previous years gave 

 greatly of his time and ability in classifying and 

 arranging the bird skins and eggs in the Greville 

 Smyth collections, has this year brought together a fine 

 collection of Diptera, representing over 300 species by 

 about 800 specimens. All bear locality and date labels, 

 many were collected in Redland and Clifton, and a 



