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Eighty-five insects of various Orders, from many localities 
near Oxford, by Mr. W. Holland. 
Five dragon-flies, by Mr. A. H. Hamm. 
A larva of Cossus ligniperda (the goat moth) found in the 
Lamb and Flag Yard, and purchased in 1903 of Thomas 
Howse, produced a moth on June 22, 1904. 
PURCHASES IN 1904. 
A hundred and forty-four Lepidoptera from Chubut, Valley 
of Lago Blanco, in the Patagonian Andes, near the Chilian 
frontier, were purchased from W. F. Rosenberg. Twenty-four 
of the butterflies were separated out to form with other acces- 
sions the nucleus of a special Antarctic Collection. The whole 
series was greatly wanted on account of the locality. 
The following specimens purchased at Stevens’s auction 
room are now catalogued and incorporated :— 
Ninety-four Lepidoptera from Sapucay, Paraguay (1900- 
1903). The majority bear exact dates. 
Two hundred and thirty-seven moths (of which 194 are 
catalogued) from Tuis, at a height of 650 metres, on the 
Atlantic slope of Costa Rica. 
Three hundred and ninety-one Lepidoptera (of which 316 
are catalogued) from Gooty, in the South of India. This 
series contains I1 examples of the Geometrid moth Adraras 
etridoides, a beautiful mimic of the butterfly, Teracolus etrida. 
THE HopeE LIBRARY. 
Miss Bellamy has nearly completed the slips and has begun 
to make a card catalogue which will be of the utmost value. 
In the autumn Dr. F. A. Dixey began to classify the books 
and has already finished a large part of the work—indeed 
probably the most arduous part of it. He has also under- 
taken a general superintendence of the work, which under his 
guidance has made great progress. It is hoped that the day 
is not far off when the Library will be in the possession of 
a really efficient and complete catalogue. 
