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" A Revision of the British Atomariae," by Mr. T. V. Wollaston, 

 executed with the known precision and care of that talented entomo- 

 logist. The number of species amounts to twenty-three. One new 

 species, Atomaria Hislopi, is described. 



" On the recent progress of Micro-Lepidopterology on the Conti- 

 nent," by Mr. Stainton, in which the author well points out what our 

 Continental friends have been doing among these now favourite fami- 

 lies of the Lepidoptera. 



Mr. J. S. Baly gives descriptions of two new species of Pseudo- 

 mela. 



The present state of the National Collection of Insects, and the 

 progress made in its arrangement, cannot but be interesting to ento- 

 mologists ; and I have therefore much pleasure in laying before you 

 the following report, kindly furnished to me by my friend Dr. Gray, 

 and for which I beg to tender him my best thanks. The collection 

 of insects under his care is, I have every reason to believe, the most 

 extensive which has yet been formed, and of the greatest importance 

 to working entomologists in this country, giving them an opportunity 

 of examining a vast variety of insect forms, and placing them in a 

 very advantageous position as compared with entomologists on the 

 Continent. Under the able management of Dr. Gray the collection 

 is rapidly augmenting, and the contents are being arranged and put 

 in good working order by a gentleman of known ability, and whose 

 labours are well shown in a series of Catalogues, which are a most 

 valuable contribution to the science of Entomology. 



" In reply to your kind note I have the pleasure to inform you that 

 we have added and arranged, in their places in the Collection, 22,705 

 specimens of Insects and Crustacea, during the year ending the 31st 

 of December, 1857. These are all specimens selected from large 

 collections as those most useful for completing our collection, or of 

 typical importance. 



" We have lately added to the Department, and arranged apart for 

 more easy study, a very large Collection of European Coleoptera, all 

 received from Continental entomologists of good reputation, so as to 

 enable our P^nglish Coleopterists to determine, by actual comparison, 

 the names by which their specimens are known to their Continental 

 brethren. 



" Mr. Wollaston has added to his collection of Madeira Coleoptera 



