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Acracinae, Lycaenidae, and Pierinae were especially rich, in 
species unrepresented in the cabinets of the Department, or 
represented by few individuals from different localities or with- 
out data. In addition to these 334 specimens, many others 
sent by the same kind donor await the answers to inquiries 
concerning locality before being labelled and catalogued. 
One hundred and ninety-seven Lepidoptera, chiefly butter- 
flies, from British Central Africa, of which 105 have been 
catalogued, were presented by H. A. ‘Byatt, Esq) Boas, 
Lincoln College. The specimens, which possess excellent 
data, were captured in 1903 and Igo4 in a variety of localities 
and at many different elevations. Among the Acraeinae were 
three specimens of a new species which Mr. S. A. Neave 
described as A. byattz, but his description was anticipated— 
by a few weeks only—by a continental naturalist, and dyaté 
becomes a synonym of goefzez, Thur. Of much interest for 
the bionomic collection is a series of Papilio leonidas, captured 
at the same time and place with the Danaine butterfly, which it 
resembles—77zramala petiverana. Some of Mr. Byatt’s speci- 
mens have been exhibited at meetings of the Entomological 
Society of London, and his observations published in the 
“ Proceedings.” 
ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH COLLECTIONS IN Ig04. 
A splendid set of 656 British Diptera was presented by 
Col. J. W. Yerbury. The species have all been accurately 
worked out by the donor, and the names as well as the locali- 
ties and dates are now recorded on the specimens. The 
captures were made over a very wide area, as the following 
list of counties, &c., indicates :—Inverness (1898), Elgin (1899), 
Sutherland (1899, 1900), Haddington (1899), Perthshire (1898), 
Caithness (1899, 1900), N. Wales (1902), S. Wales (1899, 1903), 
Hereford (1899, 1901, 1902), S. Devon (1903), Hampshire 
(1898), Surrey (1899, 1900, 1903), Sussex (1900), Kent (1898, 
1899), Cambridge (1898). 
An interesting series of Diptera with their prey (10 speci- 
mens) from Torcross, S. Devon (Aug.—Sept. 1903), was also 
