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recent researches upon the Lycaenidac, formerly placed in the 

 genus Cyaniris, has investigated the Department material which 

 bore upon his inquiries. Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., has 

 continued to work at the collection of Greek Hymeno- 

 ptera Aculeata made by his cousin, Sir S, S. Saunders. Mr. 

 F. Balfour Browne, M.A., F.E.S., has determined a number of 

 specimens belonging to the most obscure and difficult species of 

 the British Water Beetles. Dr. Creighton Wellman has made a 

 preliminary study of the CantJiaridae. Mr. Roland E. Turner, 

 F.E.S.. has studied the Tasmanian Hymenoptera of the W. J. 

 Burchell Collection, and has identified a number of the species. 

 Mr. Turner has also worked out the Department material in 

 the groups of Hymenoptera upon which he has recently pub- 

 lished memoirs. Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., and Mr. E. R. 

 Speyer, New College, have rendered assistance with the 

 collection of Neuroptera. 



The Cetoniid beetles are being sent in sections to Mr. O. E. 

 Janson, F.E.S., who has most kindly consented to work out 

 the collection gradually. His determinations have now been 

 placed on all specimens of the sections already completed ; 

 and the same is true of the Biiprestidae^ kindly named in 

 the British Museum by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. The African 

 Longicorns, kindly identified by Dr. Karl Jordan at Tring, 

 are in part labelled with their determinations, and will soon 

 receive the whole. 



Mr. E. E. Green, F.E.S., during his visit to Oxford, kindly 

 named a number of the Ccccidae^ taking others away for 

 prolonged study. These he has now identified and returned. 



Monsieur H. Boileau, of Paris, visited the Department and 

 examined the collection of Lticanidae . He took away and 

 kindly worked out a number of the difficult species, which 

 have now been returned in safety. It is hoped that this 

 distinguished authority on the group will soon publish a paper 

 on the Lucanid beetles of the Department. 



As regards the bionomic collections, in addition to the 

 work which is sufficiently indicated in the list of publications 

 printed in Section lo. Dr. F. A. Dixey, Dr. G. B. Longstaff, 

 and the Professor selected, arranged, and exhibited specimens 



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