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collection of Alcyonaria has been brought together and 

 remounted in a mahogany and plate-glass case, and a 

 typical collection of corals, including a series from the 

 Celebes, has been set up in a similar case kindly lent 

 by a member of the Committee. Additions have been 

 made to every, group of the Invertebrata. 



Mr. G. C. Griffiths reports that " during the year 

 considerable progress has been made with the arrange- 

 ment of the British Lepidoptera. The collection con- 

 tains many interesting and rare species. Amongst the 

 insects acquired by the Museum after the death of the 

 late Mr. Stephen Barton, is one of the specimens of 

 Deilephila cupharbiae captured by Mr. W. Raddon on 

 the Braunton Sandhills, North Devon. This beautiful 

 hawk-moth, once so abundant in this single British 

 locality, has for many years entirely disappeared. 

 Raddon's captures were made about 1814, and soon 

 after this date the species died out. Amongst the 

 British insects of the Greville Smyth collection are four 

 Drepana harpagula (sicula), the only British locality for 

 which is Leigh "Woods, two Nydrilla palustris, two 

 Nochia subrvsea, and other rarities. 



" A beginning has also been made in identifying 

 some of the exotic moths of the Greville Smyth collec- 

 tions, and as soon as the arrangement of the British 

 Lepidoptera is complete it is proposed to take these in 

 hand." 



The remounting of the mollusca has been continued 

 during the year, and is now almost completed. The 

 great bulk of it is, however, still supplied with manuscript 

 labels, the printing press being wholly unable to keep 

 pace with the work of re- arrangement. As the Museum 

 possessed two series of British land and freshwater 

 shells, it was decided to transfer the "Fry" collection 



