4 new species, The paper appeared in Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1898, p. 172. 



Mr. Herbert Druce described 23 new species of South 

 American moths {Syntomidae) in the Hope Collections (Ann, 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1898, p. 401). 



Dr. F. A. Dixey wrote on recent experiments on the 

 hybridization of insects (Science Progress, April 1898), and 

 on seasonal dimorphism in South American Pierine butterflies 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc, December 7, 1898). 



Professor Poulton published a paper on natural selection 

 as the cause of Mimicry (Journal Linnean Society, 1898, p. 558), 

 and in conjunction with Miss Cora B. Sanders attempted to 

 obtain experimental evidence of the struggle for existence in 

 certain insects (British Association Report, 1898, p. 906). 

 The former paper describes many examples in the Hope 

 Collections, the latter enquiry, aided by the Government 

 Grant Committee of the Royal Society, was in part carried 

 on in the Department. 



The memoirs published in 1898 and 1899, together with 

 others which appeared in the latter part of 1897, nearly suffice 

 for a second volume of " Hope Reports," and it is hoped that 

 the issue will take place before the close of the present year. 



Additions to the Collection in 1897 

 {imperfectly reeorded in the Report of that year). 



It has been explained that the additions made in 1897 

 were labelled and catalogued only in small part when the 

 Report of that year was issued in June 1898, Only about 

 i,6co specimens out of a total of about 12,000 had been 

 catalogued and could be adequately acknowledged. The 

 present Report begins where that of 1897 becomes brief 

 and incomplete. 



Rev. G. Dexter Allen presented 16 Lepidoptera Rhopalocera 

 from the Alps and 10 Coleoptera from the Alps (with the 

 exception of one from the Pyrenees). 



Dr. E. Crompton and his brother, F. Crompton, Esq., 

 presented a fine set of insects captured (1894-7) in the 



