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ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH COLLECTIONS IN 1902. 
Four Asilid flies, Eastbourne (1900), were presented by the 
captor, Major G. C. Nurse. . 
Twenty-eight Asilid flies from many British localities, 
Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Devonshire, Lancashire, Merioneth, 
Co. Kerry (1878-97), were presented by Col. Yerbury, the 
great majority having been captured by him. 
Twenty-five Asélidae from the Oxford and Reading dis- 
tricts, East Ilsley, and South Devon (1898-1901), were 
presented by the captor, Mr. A. H. Hamm. 
Seven Diptera, including 6 Asilids, from the Oxford dis- 
trict (1895-1901), were presented by the captor, Mr. W. 
Holland. 
Two specimens of Sirer gigas, N. Devon (Aug. 1902), 
were presented by the captor, the Rev. G. B. Simeon, of 
Littleham Rectory, Bideford. 
Four specimens of Plusia moneta, Sandhurst (July, 1902), 
were presented by the captor, Lieut.-Col. A. F. Mockler- 
Ferryman. 
Eleven specimens of Hymenoptera of various groups and 
one Dipteron, Berkshire (June, 1902), were presented by the 
captor, Mrs. L. J. Veley. 
Five Hymenoptera, 11 Coleoptera, and 1 Hemipteron, Berk- 
shire (June, 1902), and a specimen of Cetonta aurata, Oxford 
(July, 1902), were presented by the captor, Miss Claridge. 
A valuable set of 140 insects of different orders, and 
2, Arachnids, from various localities in the New Forest 
and Bournemouth districts (1902), were presented by the 
captor, Major R. B. Robertson. 
A hornet (Vespa crabro) from Summertown (1902) was 
presented by the captor, Mr. C. A. Matthews. 
Dr. W. H. Jackson, M.A., D.Sc., presented the following 
insects captured by him in 1890-2: Reduvius sertus and 
an Ophion from the Oxford University Museum, a fine set 
of 12 Culex annulatus and 2 C. pipiens from Weston-super- 
Mare. These very delicate insects had been captured and 
