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the captor, Arthur Longdon, Esq. ; and a moth of the genus 
Catocala, from the same locality (1902), by the captor, L. N. 
Heazell, Esq. The specimens were very welcome on account 
of the great interest of the locality. 
Eleven insects from the Zeerust District of the Transvaal 
(Feb. 1901) were presented by the captor, Trooper E. Hamm. 
They include four specimens of Lzmunas chrysippus, much 
wanted for the sake of the locality. 
A muscid fly, allied to the genus Bengalia, together with 
its puparium, was presented by George F. Leigh, Esq., F.E.S. 
The larva had been extracted from the leg of a child at 
Durban, on Feb. 2, 1903; it pupated Feb. 5, and the fly 
emerged March 1. This interesting example of a dipterous 
insect which attacks man is now being studied by Mr. E. E. 
Austen in the British Museum. 
A valuable collection of insects from the Siamese States 
has been presented by the collectors, N. Annandale, Esq., B.A., 
Balliol College, and H. C. Robinson, Esq. The collection is 
an important part of the material described in “ Fasciculi 
Malayenses” (Liverpool University Press), edited by Mr. An- 
nandale and Mr. Robinson. The collection consists of 269 
butterflies, 335 moths, 261 Hemiptera, 115 Coleoptera, 33 ex- 
amples of mimicry and common warning colours in Lepido- 
ptera, and 2 in Hemiptera. A magnificent series of eight 
males and ten females of the splendid butterfly Ornithoptera 
poseidon euphorion, in part bred and in part captured at 
Cooktown, N. Queensland coast (1900), were presented by 
H. C. Robinson, Esq. 
Seven insects and arachnids from Lango, Lofoden Islands 
(August, September, 1903), were presented by the captor, 
E. N. Bennett, Esq., M.A., Hertford College. Three interest- 
ing dipterous parasites of the Norwegian Grouse are included. 
Two specimens of Precis actia, the wet-phase parent with 
its dry-phase offspring (Salisbury, Mashonaland, 1903), were 
presented by Guy A. K. Marshall, Esq., being the third 
example of the genus in which the two utterly different forms 
have been proved to be but a single species by this distin- 
