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ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS IN 1902. 
Since the last Report a great deal of work has been 
expended upon the accessions of this year, and a large number 
of specimens have been now catalogued and incorporated. 
An interesting collection of 232 insects of many groups 
from Tenerife (1902) was presented by the captor, F. A. 
Bellamy, Esq. The Hope Department contains fine collec- 
tions from the Atlantic Islands made by the late T. V. 
Wollaston about fifty years ago, so that it is particularly 
interesting to obtain fresh material from any of these localities, 
especially when the data are as exact and detailed as those 
supplied by Mr. Bellamy. Hearing that my friend Mr. 
Edward Saunders, F.R.S., was preparing a paper on the 
Hymenoptera Aculeata collected by the Rev. A. Eaton in . 
Madeira and Tenerife, I induced him to work out Mr. Bel- 
lamy’s specimens of this group, and at the same time sent 
him Wollaston’s Madeiran Aculeates. The ants in the latter 
series he submitted to Professor Forel. The paper was pub- 
lished in the Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1903, pp. 207-218, 
with a supplementary note on p. 551. With regard to the 
Wollaston specimens, Mr. Saunders remarks: “It is important 
to record, as far as possible, the forms which existed half 
a century ago in an island so liable to accidental immigration 
as Madeira.” There were no new species in Mr. Bellamy’s 
collection of Aculeates, although several are of great interest. 
Chief among these are the queens, not obtained by Mr. Eaton, 
of the Tenerife form of Bombus terrestris. A black humble- 
bee with the apex of the abdomen snowy white, from the 
Canary Islands, had been identified by Brullé as Bombus 
soroensis. Professor Perez of Bordeaux (1894) and Mr. 
Saunders (independently in 1903) came to the conclusion that 
the insect is a variety of the well-known Bomdbus terrestris, 
with a very unusual and remarkable coloration. Should any 
friend of the Department be visiting the Canary Islands, the 
Professor would be extremely glad to receive humble-bees 
from Grand Canary and any of the other islands except 
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