Mrs. Bazett of Reading presented a useful set of loi Lepi- 

 doptera, captured in 1H93-4 in Switzerland (Vaud), and 28 

 from the Spanish Pyrenees (1892). 



Mr. H. R. Smith presented 12 Lepidoptera from W. China, 

 the Khasia Hills, Assam, and Europe. 



Mr. A. H. Hamm presented 14 Lepidoptera from a variety 

 of localities. These were especially useful in providing 

 specimens which were much wanted from certain localities 

 unrepresented in the Hope Collection, or of great interest in 

 themselves. 



Colonel Swinhoe presented a fine set of 248 Heterocera 

 from the Khasia Hills, Assam (1B93). 



Mr. W. Holland presented 34 specimens (chiefly Lepido- 

 ptera) captured at various localities in Britain, to be added to 

 the general collections. 



Mr. A. H. Hamm similarly presented 30 specimens. 



Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, F.R.S., presented a useful set of 

 68 insects, chiefly Lepidoptera, received from Rev. J. T. Roberts 

 Rea from the Potaro River, Central British Guiana (1896). 



Dr. F. A. Dixey presented 8 very interesting and valuable 

 hybrid Saturnian moths, obtained by Dr. M. Standfuss, of 

 Zurich. 



Twenty-seven Lepidoptera, chiefly intended for the Mimicry 

 Collection, were purchased from Messrs.Watkins and Doncaster. 



The British Collections also received a very large number of 

 accessions — by far the most important of recent years. 



Rev. H. A. Harvey presented a specimen of a species of 

 Ichnetunonidac captured in Oxford. 



A small but valuable set of 42 Hymenoptera Aculeata was 

 presented by Edward Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., filling up some 

 of the gaps in our fine British Collection of this Order. 



Miss E. E. Thoyts presented a valuable set of 339 insects 

 of many Orders captured by her chiefly in Sulhampstead Park, 

 Berkshire. Two hundred and eighty- eight specimens of 

 Hymenoptera were from the latter locality. All the specimens 

 are accompanied by careful and excellent notes. 



Mr. W. Holland presented a splendid set of 1,630 specimens, 

 chiefly of Lepidoptera, from many localities., principally in the 



