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of 100 have the special interest that they were taken in the 
Oxford district. The remainder were from several localities 
in Berkshire and from S. Devon (various dates). Twenty- 
three insects of various Orders from the neighbourhood of 
Oxford (1903) were also presented by Mr. Hamm, together 
with an Asilid fly and its prey, a small moth, from Shotover 
Hill (1900), and a Pompilus with its Hemipterous mimic cap- 
tured on the same day at Bovey Tracey (Aug. 10, 1899). 
Six insects from the University Museum or its grounds 
(1903) were presented by the captor, Mr. H. Trim, of the 
University Museum. Interesting examples of bird-parasites 
are included in the donation. 
Many kind donations to the British Collection have not yet 
been labelled and catalogued. Formal acknowledgement will 
be made in the next Report to Dr. W. Hatchett Jackson, 
D.Sc., M.A., Keble College; Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., New 
College ; S. A. Neave, Esq., B.A., Magdalen College ; Major 
R. B. Robertson; Edward Saunders, Esq., F.R.S.; F. A. 
Bellamy, Esq.; A. J. Chitty, Esq., M.A., Balliol College ; 
G. C. Druce, Esq., Hon. M.A., Magdalen College ; W. J. Lucas, 
Esq., B.A.; Colonel J. W. Yerbury (for a few specimens still 
uncatalogued) ; W. C. Boyd, Esq.; F. Jenkinson, Esq., Hon. 
D.Litt., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Miss Irene M. Cox, Miss 
K. Parker, Mr. Brown, and the Professor. 
The addition (Dec. 21, 1903) to the collection of British 
Lepidoptera Heterocera, which we owe to the kindness of 
Dr. F. A. Dixey, Wadham College, although uncatalogued 
is acknowledged in detail because of the exceptional interest 
of two of the specimens, and because the careful record 
of numerous interesting and important data always renders 
Dr. Dixey’s specimens of unusual value. The donation con- 
sists of 33 species and 105 individuals of British moths of the 
sub-families Arctiadae, Caradrinidae, and Plusiadae. The 
specimens were collected from 1876 to 1903 in Middlesex, 
Bucks, Oxon, Berks, and Devon. 
The series includes two examples of the rare Polia xantho- 
mista (nigrocincta) from North Devon, one of which is believed 
