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group of distasteful species with varying degrees of relation- 
ship, and yet possessing warning colours in common. The 
great feature of this group is the tendency towards the 
extension and fusion of the black markings in the hind wings, 
until in the most extreme forms the wing is almost com- 
pletely suffused with black. There is probably no group 
of the kind in the world which suggests more interest- 
ing problems in the past history of evolution than this 
association of black-hind-winged butterflies from British 
Guiana, and Mr. Kaye’s donation will enable the Department 
to illustrate many aspects of the question in an admirable 
manner. The specimens were chiefly collected in the forest 
near the Potaro River, 30 miles above its junction with the 
Essequibo, and many of them were captured by Mr. Kaye 
himself. 
A Gryllotalpa from Paraguay was presented by A. Wilkinson, 
Esq. 
A small collection of 62 Lepidoptera and 1 beetle from 
British Central Africa (1901-2) was presented by the captor, 
Horace A. Byatt, Esq., B.A., Lincoln College. The locality 
renders the specimens of much value to the Department. 
Eleven Coleoptera from Port Said were presented by the 
captors, N. Annandale, Esq., B.A., Balliol College, and H. C. 
Robinson, Esq. 
A moth (Dianthecia carpophaga) from Sark (1897) was 
presented by the captor, W. G. Pogson Smith, Fats MEE. 
St. John’s College. 
A specimen of the hawk-moth Chaerocampa cuphorbiae 
was bred in the Department (July 15, 1902); presented by 
Miss O. Butler, who had found the larva (Aug., 1901) near 
Innsbruck, 
Seven butterflies from the Kenya District of the East 
African Protectorate (1901) were presented by the captors, 
S. L. Hinde, Esq., and Mrs. Hinde. They include four speci- 
mens of an Acraea (A. alicia) new to the University Collection. 
Fourteen insects of various orders collected in the Cal- 
vinia District of Cape Colony by H. L. Lake, Esq., and one 
