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already in the Museum all the species which have been since disco- 

 vered in these islands by himself or other entomologists, and there 

 has been added to this collection the sjDecimens of all the other orders 

 of insects which Mr. Wollaston found in these islands, forming one of 

 the most complete local Insect-Faunas, next to our British Collection, 

 now known. 



" A large general collection of Coccinellidae, all named, many of 

 them being type specimens described by M. Mulsant. 



" The British Collection of Lepidoptera has been greatly extended, 

 by the addition of many new species and fresh specimens : it has 

 been rearranged according to the edition of Mr. Stephens' Catalogue 

 revised by Messrs, Stain ton and Shepherd. 



" It has also received, among other donations, many valuable spe- 

 cimens of Ilemiptera, and other insects collected in Brazil, by the 

 Rev. Hamlet Clark. 



" M. Jekel brings in succession the species of the different genera 

 of Curculionida?, purchased by Mr. John Bowring, and deposited by 

 him, for the use of entomologists, in the British Museum, until his 

 return from China. 



" Dr. Hagen, of Konigsberg, visited the Museum at ray invitation, 

 for the purpose of describing the new species and revising the nomen- 

 clature of the described species of Trichoptera and Neuroptera in the 

 British Museum, and especially for the purpose of preparing a Cata- 

 logue of the British species for Mr. Stainton's ' Annual.' 



" We continue to produce a succession of Entomological Catalogues, 

 which must make our Collection contain the largest number of types 

 of any in Europe. I may mention the following: — 



"1. Mr. Wollaston's ' Cotalogue of Coleoptera of Madeira,' con- 

 taining a description of the s|)ecies discovered since the 

 publicalion of his large work on the subject. 



" 2. Mr. Walker has published three parts of his ' Catalogue of 

 Noctuidte,' containing the description of mauy new spe- 

 cie's not mentioned in the later Continental works on the 

 subject. 



"3. Mr. Smith has published another part of his excellent 'Cata- 

 logue of Hymenoj)terous Insects,' containing the family 

 Vesj^idee ; and he has a ' Catalogue of the S])ecies of For- 

 uiicida)' quite ready for the press. 



