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Largely owing to Mr. Donisthorpe’s kind help the material for 
a most valuable collection of British beetles is being gradually 
accumulated. 
One hundred and sixty-five Homoptera, captured at various 
dates in many localities, chiefly near Reading and Oxford, were 
presented by Mr. W. Holland of the Hope Department. The 
whole collection has been examined by Mr. Edward Saunders, 
F.R.S., and nearly all the species determined. The names 
have now been recorded upon labels attached to the specimens. 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS IN 1904. 
A very fine and varied series of insects, chiefly Lepidoptera, 
from the most varied localities, and with exact data, was 
presented by Commander J.J. Walker, R.N. Large numbers 
of the species were new to the Collections, or only represented 
by a few specimens with very imperfect data, or even with none 
atall. This important and valuable accession is classified below 
by the localities of the specimens. 
Two specimens of Limnas chrysippus, var. alcippus, from 
Porto Grande, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands. 
The Hope Collection contains a fine series of the white- 
hind-winged form alcippus from the tropical west coast of 
Africa. Commander Walker’s donation shows the same 
variety extending into the Cape Verde Islands—an interesting 
contrast with the Canaries in which the type form of 
chrysippus prevails. 
Sixty-four insects of various Orders, chiefly butterflies, from 
New Zealand (the great majority captured by the donor in 
1901, 1902, or 1903). Twenty-four butterflies were separated 
out as part of the nucleus of a special antarctic collection. 
These deeply interesting islands have been hitherto almost 
unrepresented in the Hope Department. Some account of 
the collection in which these specimens were included has 
been published by Commander Walker in the “ Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine,” 1904,-pp.68; 115; 117, 12%, 151. In 
many of the following references this periodical will be 
indicated by the initials “E.M.M.” 
