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G. H. Verrall and Mr. J. E. Collin, the Neuroptera by Mr. W. J. 
Lucas and Mr. Kenneth J. Morton, the Hymenoptera Aculeata 
by Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., and the Zeuthredinidae by 
the Rev. F. D. Morice. 
Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., New College, visited the Depart- 
ment many times in the year, and undertook here the chief 
part of his researches upon the fine collection of over 2,000 
insects of various Orders—chiefly butterflies—made by him 
(1903 and 1904) in India, Ceylon, S.E. China, Japan, and 
Canada, and presented to the Department. Dr. Longstaff 
communicated his memoir to the Entomological Society of 
London in December last. The manuscript is now going 
through the press. 
When Mr. Guy Marshall was in England in 1902 he was 
preparing his great monograph on the African Curculionid 
genus //zpporrhinus. On the occasion of one of his visits to 
Oxford he examined and named nearly the whole of this 
group of beetles in the University Collection. There remained, 
however, 15 specimens which he could only study satisfac- 
torily by comparing them with his own collection in Salisbury, 
Mashonaland. He took these weevils with him for this pur- 
pose, and they have recently come back in safety. One species 
was found to be new, and is described in his monograph as 
Hipporrhinus oneili. It is represented by 2 males and 1 
female (the type), bearing the data “ Natal, Colenso, 1880,” 
Of the 12 remaining specimens 9 belong to known species 
and are now determined, while 3 of a single species are con- 
sidered by Mr. Marshall to be perhaps Australian. In any 
case their condition renders a description inexpedient. 
Colonel Yerbury’s remarkable success in discovering a large 
fly, Callicera yerburyt, Verrall, new to science, during his visit 
to Scotland in the summer of last year, led to a critical exam- 
ination by Mr. G. H. Verrall of all the available specimens of 
the genus to be found in collections throughout the country. 
Colonel Yerbury with great kindness came down to Oxford on 
purpose to search for examples of Cad/ccera in the University 
Collection of Diptera. As a result, there has been brought to 
