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from which Mr. Leigh bred 4 male and 2 female soolina, and 

 6 male and 9 female neanthes, the butterflies emerging in June 

 and July. These specimens also have been purchased for the 

 Department. (Proc. Ent. Soc, Lend. 1909, xlix, i, where most 

 unfortunately the number of male ncanthes is given as 15 

 instead of 6.) 



A splendid collection of mimetic butterflies and their models 

 collected at intervals from May to September, in a small patch 

 of forest near Entebbe, has been presented by C. A. Wiggins, 

 Esq., M.R.C.S., of Entebbe. Although in large part set and 

 labelled, the specimens are not yet catalogued, and their 

 detailed acknowledgement must be reserved for next year's 

 Report. It is not too much to say that this material will 

 throw more light on the study of mimicry than any that has 

 ever been collected in a limited time in a single locahty. 



Chief among the accessions from the Neotropical Region is 

 an exceedingly fine set of 6,625 insects from Central America, 

 presented by Dr. F. D. Godman, Hon, D.C.L., F.R.S. This 

 very valuable collection is made up of duplicates from certain 

 sections of the great mass of material upon which the Biologia 

 Centrali-Americana has been written. The groups represented 

 and the number of specimens in each are recorded below : — 

 Coleoptera ....... 4^5*^ 



Rhynchota (chiefly Hemiptera-Heteroptera) . 1620 

 Hymenoptera . . . . . .149 



Total 6625 



The value of the collection is immensely increased by the 

 full geographical data and the fact that the species have been 

 determined by the distinguished authorities who have worked 

 out the groups and their subdivisions for the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana. 



An extremely interesting specimen of the rare Castniid 

 moth Castnia therapon, together with its pupa-case, was pre- 

 sented by Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. The moth was caught 

 flying in Dr. Wallace's orchid-house at Broadstone, on Dec. 

 26, 1908, and the pupa-case was found among the roots of 

 a StanJiopca which had been more than a year in the house, 



