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limited means for dealing with it which alone are possible for 
the University, lead at times toa feeling of depression. When 
each year the time comes for these Reports to be written 
this attitude gives way before one of hopefulness, even of con- 
fidence, inspired by the thought of the large amount of kind 
and willing help freely given by the most eminent authorities 
upon Insect Systematics. 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS IN 1899. 
Ten Coleoptera, chiefly Brenxthidae, from Kuching, Sarawak 
(1899), were presented by R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., Christ’s 
College, Cambridge. 
Forty-two Lepidoptera and two scorpions, from various 
localities in Mexico (1897-8), were presented by O.H. Howarth, 
Esq., together with a Colias from El Paso, Texas (1898). 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS IN 1900. 
Fifty-six Coleoptera from Kuching, Sarawak (various dates), 
presented by R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., Christ’s College, Cam- 
bridge, have been catalogued. The series includes a co-type 
of Diurus shelfordi, described by Dr. A. Senna of Florence, 
and many interesting Longicorns of the genus Oderea, mimetic 
of Hymenoptera. 
Three insects from Pankalan Ampat, at the base of Mount 
Penrissen, Borneo (May, 1899), figured in Proc. Zool. Soc., 
1902 (Plates XX, Figs. 31, 39; XXII, Fig. 7), together with 
two Exdomychidae from the same locality, were presented by 
R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., and E. A. W. Cox, Esq. 
Twenty Coleoptera from Virginia, U.S.A. (June, 1900), and 
one from Niagara (July, 1900), were presented by the captor, 
Ralph D’A. Morrell, Esq. 
A hundred and four Coleoptera (chiefly Phytophaga) from 
various localities, principally the southern part of the Bombay 
Presidency (1885-95), were presented by H. E. Andrewes, 
Esq., and Dr. F. W. Andrewes, D.M., Christ Church. The 
collection includes seven co-types of Herr M. Jacoby, one of 
Horn, and one of Régimbart. 
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