Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1904. 
Summary of the chief accessions acknowledged in the 
Report for 1904. 
Among the additions to the British Collections one of the 
most interesting has been an important Asilid fly new to the 
British list, captured by Mr. W. Holland at Stow Wood 
(June 10, 1895) and Tubney (June 2, 1901). Last year Mr. 
Holland’s discovery of a striking beetle (Gyxandrophthalma 
affinis) new to Britain, from Wychwood, was mentioned in the 
Report of the Hope Department. Now it is followed up by 
this interesting accession to the list of Diptera :—NVcottamus 
cothurnatus. The three specimens have been determined by 
Mr. G. H. Verrall, and were exhibited by him at the Entomo- 
logical Society (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. xxxiii). 
For many years the generosity of Mr. Horace Donisthorpe 
has been acknowledged in these Reports. During the past 
year he has again presented valuable additions to the British 
Collections, especially the beetles. Up to the present time we 
owe representatives of over 970 British species of this Order 
to his kind help. 
Although properly belonging to the present year, it is 
impossible not to allude to the splendid collection of nearly 
7,000 British Micro-Lepidoptera recently presented to the 
University by Mrs. E. C. Bazett, of Reading. These minute 
and excessively delicate specimens are most difficult to obtain 
in good condition, and even more difficult to “set.” The 
existing British Collection of Micro-Lepidoptera—in part 
Westwood, in part Spilsbury, and in part the old Oxford 
Entomological Society—is by no means satisfactory ; so that 
Mrs. Bazett’s generous gift of the collection to which she has 
devoted many years of labour, will enable us to replace thou- 
sands of poor specimens without data by beautiful examples 
accompanied by excellent records. It is hoped that a full and 
complete account will be furnished in the Report of the present 
year, but an immiense amount of work will be required in 
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