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The locality renders all the species of much interest and 
value to the collection. 
The following valuable donations presented by Herbert 
Druce, Esq., F.L.S., have now been set, labelled, and cata- 
logued :— 
A hundred and thirty-one butterflies and ten moths col- 
lected by J. Carder in the interior of Colombia (about 1896). 
Twenty-six butterflies collected by Watkins on the Rio 
Perene, Peru (about 1902). 
Thirty-one butterflies collected by T. Alexander and 
M. Eder on the Rio Caqueta on the south-east boundary of 
Colombia. 
Twenty-four insects, chiefly butterflies, collected by Hamil- 
ton in the Khasia Hills, Assam (about 1895). 
Six fine Axthribidae (Coleoptera) collected by A. Steffen, 
Esq., in Langsuan State, Lower Siam (1899-1902), were pre- 
sented by N. Annandale, Esq., B.A., Balliol College. 
PURCHASES. 
The following specimens were purchased in 1902. Eighty- 
seven Lepidoptera collected,1901, at Chanchamayo, La Merced, 
Peru, and 63 from the Upper Rio Toro in the same province 
(1901), were purchased from Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg. - The 
specimens were much wanted in the collection, which is very 
weak in Western tropical American forms, while many of the 
specimens showing interesting mimetic or synaposematic asso- 
ciation were placed in the bionomic series. 
Three hundred and twenty-four Lepidoptera and three 
Homoptera from British New Guinea (between Holnicote 
Bay and the German boundary, August, 1900, to March, 1gor) 
were purchased from the collector, Mr. H. S. Rohu. The 
Hope Collection is particularly poor in specimens from New 
Guinea, and many of the species were hitherto unrepresented 
at Oxford. A few mimetic, or more probably synapose- 
matic, groups of butterflies were added to the bionomic 
series, 
