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A bee, Melipona apicalis, together with an Asilid fly 
(Damalina, sp.) which was devouring it, were presented by 
the captor, Colonel C.T. Bingham. From the Ataran Valley, 
L. Tenasserim (April, 1898). 
Col. Bingham also presented a Mantis, Creoboter urbana, 
captured by him in the act of eating a Pierine butterfly, 
Delias descombesi, North Shan States, Upper Burma (Oct., 
1900), and a fine Asilid fly (A72crostylum, sp.), Taunghu Valley, 
L. Tenasserim (May, 1893). 
Two Hemiptera (Redwviidac), falling into the great South 
African group of distasteful insects, exhibiting warning 
colours of the type characteristic of Ethiopian Lycid beetles, 
were presented by W. L. Distant, Esq. Captured by Guy 
A. K. Marshall, at Salisbury, Mashonaland, 5,000 ft. 
Thirteen Diptera of the genus Bombylius, including six 
B. pictus, from Hyéres (Feb.Apr., 1898), were presented by 
the captor, Col. J. W. Yerbury; also eight specimens of 
species of the same genus from South Spain (1901) and 
Portugal (1896), and three Diptera of the genus Coops, from 
Lahej near Aden (Mar., 1895). 
A fine set of eighty-nine Diptera of the family Asz/dae, 
from Karlsbad (1900), Mentone (1900), Simla (1897-8), Firoz- 
pur, Punjab (1898), Bombay (1879), and Disa (1897), was 
presented by the captor, Major G.C. Nurse. I have to thank 
Col. Yerbury for his kind help in suggesting to the donor 
the needs of the Department. 
Sixty-nine butterflies, including a series of the extremely 
local Erebia zapateri, together with a pair of the Asilid fly 
Laphria gibbosa, of which the female was devouring a beetle, 
Buprestis flavomaculata, Albarracin Mountains, Spain (1901), 
were presented by the captor, Dr. T. A. Chapman. 
A form of the female of the mimetic Pierine butterfly, 
Euterpe curytele, Honduras, was presented by Col. Swinhoe, 
Hon. M.A., Wadham College. 
A very valuable set of 336 insects, almost exclusively 
Lepidoptera, Southern Nigeria, West Africa (1902), was 
presented by C. J. M. Gordon, Esq., B.A., of Balliol College. 
