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Colombia, collected by M. G. Palmer :— 25 butterflies taken 

 during February, 1909, at different localities on the Rio 

 Tamaua (300-400 ft). 



Peru, collected by M. Trujillo: — 5 moths from El Porvenir 

 (900 metres), October, 1909. 



Mexico, collected by M. Trujillo : — 12 moths from Jalapa. 



New Zealand : 19 moths. 



Fifteen South American Odonata (Dragonflies), chiefly 

 collected on the canal banks, Georgetown, British Guiana, 

 March 18-25, 100I > were presented by the captor, W. J. Kaye, 

 Esq., F.E.S., together with a Tabanid fly from the same 

 locality. 



Additions to the British Collections in 191 i. 



Seven specimens of mimetic Hemiptera and their Hymeno- 

 pterous models, as described in the Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 

 191 1, pp. xxx-xxxiii, were presented by the captor, Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm of the Hope Department. The specimens were : — 



Alydus calcaratus from the New Forest together with the 

 model Salius exaltatus collected in the same locality and 

 on the same day, viz. August 14, 1908. Also examples of 

 the earlier stages of the Alydus, in company with the ant 

 Formica fusca, race fusco-rufibarbis, Beaulieu Road Station, 

 August 10, and again on August 14, 1908. Furthermore two 

 of these larval Hemiptera collected with Formica rufa, at 

 Wellington College, April 2, 1904. The specimens illustrate 

 in a striking manner the interesting fact that quite different 

 groups of Hymenoptera are mimicked in the different stages 

 of the species. 



Nabis lativentris, captured in company with the ant Lasius 

 fuliginosus at Wellington College, August 10, 1907, and also 

 in company with Lasius niger at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 

 July 8, 1909. 



A very valuable collection of British birds has been lent to 

 the Hope Department by Mr. F. C. Woodforde, B.A., Exeter 

 College. 



The collection consists of 118 glass cases of mounted 

 birds, collected for the most part in Somersetshire and on 



