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presented his fine collection of Carabid beetles. The first half 

 of these, containing about 4,400 specimens, was incorporated 

 in 1907 in the first 30 drawers of the rearranged collection of 

 British beetles, and was acknowledged in the Report of that 

 year. The remainder, including about 4.000 specimens, has 

 been placed in the next series of 30 drawers containing the 

 completion of the rearranged Carabidae. 



Over 850 British flies, chiefly belonging to the family 

 DolicJwpodidae, but also including many much-needed repre- 

 sentatives of several other groups, were presented by Col. J. W. 

 Yerbury, late R.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. All the species, 

 the great majority of which are very difficult to determine, 

 have been worked out by Mr. G. H. Verrall, Mr. J. E. Collin, 

 and Col. Yerbury himself. The names have been printed and 

 placed on all specimens, and 725 have been catalogued. The 

 material of this most valuable donation was collected by the 

 donor in South Wales (Porthcawl, June) in 1906, and in 

 the following English localities in 1909 : — 



S. Devon, April (Torcross) ; Dorset, August (Studland) ; 

 New Forest, September (Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, and 

 Holmsley) ; Cambridgeshire, May (Wood Ditton) ; Suffolk, 

 May (Mildenhall and Tottington) ; Essex, July (Clacton-on- 

 Sea, Kirby-le-Soken, and Walton-on-Naze) ; Kent, June 

 (Dartford). 



About 400 British Coleoptera, presented by H. St. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe, Esq., in continuation of his generous gifts in 

 earlier years, have been labelled and catalogued. They include 

 an example of the rare Staphylinid beetle Emus hirUis (1910), 

 a mimic of a humble-bee. The actual number catalogued is 

 380, but often 2 and sometimes 3 specimens on a single mount 

 are included under the same number. Mr. Donisthorpe also 

 presented 66 Rhynchota Hemiptera and Homoptera, and an 

 interesting series of 27 insects of various groups, especially ants 

 and other Hymenoptera, 4 examples illustrating the bionomic 

 relations of insects, and 4 illustrating their means of dispersal 

 in modern times. The latter includes a cockroach introduced 

 in bananas, and beetles imported with plants into the Botanical 

 Gardens at Kew and Dublin. 



