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of unnamed South African Orthoptera, presented to the 
Department by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, to Seftor Don 
Ignacio Bolivar of Madrid, the eminent authority on this 
order of insects, who with the utmost kindness put aside 
other work and determined the great majority of the species 
in about ten days, so that they could be brought back to 
Oxford by hand on the return journey. One new genus and 
several new species were found in the collection. Don 
Ignacio also kindly presented to the Department a most 
valuable collection of named Spanish Orthoptera and insects 
of different orders from tropical West Africa. 
Very kind help has been afforded to the Department by 
Monsieur Jules Bourgeois of Ste. Marie aux Mines, Alsace, 
the distinguished authority upon the Malacoderm Coleoptera, 
to whom numerous specimens of this group from Borneo and 
South Africa have been sent for identification. Many new 
species have been found by M. Bourgeois in the material 
sent, and these are being or have been described by him 
as Lycocerus mimicus, Lycus marshalli, L. podagricus, L. con- 
formis, L. poultoni, Lygistopterus barkeri, and Cladophorus 
natalensis. In returning the boxes of identified specimens 
M. Bourgeois also kindly included specimens from his own 
collection presented to the Department. 
A typical collection of Brenthidae, presented by Mr. R. 
Shelford, was very kindly worked out for the Department by 
the distinguished coleopterist Dr. A. Senna, of Florence, 
who determined and described the following new species in 
our series, Diurus shelfordi, D. silvanus (female, the male 
having been previously described), and D. pozltonz. 
In the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1902 
(pp. 541-9), many new species in the Hope Collection are 
described: a unique example of a splendid new Asilid fly, 
fTyperechia marshall, described by Mr. E. E. Austen ; a new 
genus, AJegapetus, and four new species of Hemiptera by 
Mr. W. L. Distant; four new Hymenoptera by Col. C. T. 
Bingham ; a very interesting and unique example of a carabid 
beetle, Polyhirma bennettii, by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall; and 
the Telephorid, Lycocerus mimicus, alluded to above, by 
