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(April 23) and a Reduviid bug from the deck of the steamer 

 at Gibraltar (April 27), captured by Dr. Longstaff on his 

 journey home, were also presented by him to the Hope 

 Collection. 



A fine series of Tabanid flies from Northern Rhodesia and 

 the South-east of the Congo State was presented by the 

 captor, S. A. Neave, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, Magdalen College : 

 91 have been catalogued, and together with large numbers of 

 additional specimens incorporated in the Collection. The 

 interest and value of the donation has been greatly increased 

 by the fact that all the species have been determined by 

 Mr. E. E. Austen of the British Museum. A brief account 

 of the localities visited by Mr. Neave in 1909 has been pub- 

 lished in the Reports of earlier years. 



Sixty-eight Acracinae from N.E. Rhodesia and the S.E. 

 of the Congo State were also presented by S. A. Neave, Esq. 

 This series, which is an addition to the splendid collections 

 acknowledged in earlier Reports, contains the following inter- 

 esting types or paratypes of the genus Acraea: — A. mansya, 

 Eltringham ; chambezi, Neave ; mima, Neave ; lualabae, 

 Neave ; diogenes, Suff. (lactea, Neave) ; and sotikensis kataua, 

 Eltringham. Four examples of Planema poggei are also 

 included in the series. 



Two Lycacnidae ', including 1 Deloneura ochrascens, from 

 Pemba village (about 300 ft.), Duruma country, about 25 

 miles W. of Mombasa and 10 S.W. of Rabai, were presented 

 by the captor, O. F. Watkins, Esq. 



Thirty-eight butterflies collected in June-July, 1909, in the 

 Ambinanindrano district, Madagascar (400-500 ft.), were pre- 

 sented by the captor, Rev. J. U. Yonge, M.A., Keble College. 

 The series includes Acraea igati, Hypolimnas drticei, Neptis 

 kikideli, &c. 



Five African Diptera, presented by the Entomological 

 Research Committee of the Colonial Office, have been added 

 to the Collection. 



Forty-one butterflies and one moth, collected in 1909 

 by C. M. Dammers, Esq., in the mountain forests (3,000- 



