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Adding this to the total number of Lepidoptera and Coleo- 
ptera, we find that the number of specimens at present in- 
corporated in the University Collections amounts to 440,658. 
There are, however, specimens which have not been included, 
in collections which are being studied away from Oxford, 
a large part of the Burchell Collection which has now been 
separated, Collections presented but not incorporated, Col- 
lections illustrating mimicry and other bionomic problems. 
Taking all these into consideration, the number of insects in 
the Department.is certainly over 450,000, and probably not 
less than 500,000. 
In the case of the Blattidae all the outstanding specimens, 
except those in a part of the Burchell Collection, have been 
brought together, and as a result the Collection contains 
nearly 2500 specimens instead of 1842, as shown in the above 
table. So large an increase is not to be expected in many 
groups, but there are numbers of outstanding specimens to be 
added to all. 
Work published tn 1905. 
The following short papers by workers in the Hope Depart- 
ment, or upon its material, have appeared in the Proceedings 
of the Entomological Society of London during the year 
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Dr. F. A. Dixey, “On hybrid Saturnias,” March 1, 1905; “On 
Natal butterflics,experimented upon by Mr. G.A.K. Marshall,” 
March 15; ‘On the social web and pupal shells of Eucheira 
socialis,” April 5; “On forms in the genus Gonepicryx,” June 7 ; 
“On the scents of African Pierine butterflies,” Nov. 1; “On 
seasonal forms of African Pzerznae,” Nov. 15; further observa- 
tions on this latter subject, Dec. 6. 
Dr. G. B. Longstaff communicated a note on “ Heliotropism 
in Pararge and Pyrameis,’ May 3; “ On scents in the male of 
Gonepteryx,’ June 7. 
A. communication from Mr. S. A. Neave, B.A., F.E.S, 
Magdalen College, gave interesting evidence of the super- 
stitious dread of caterpillars with eye-like markings, April 5. 
