the Aculeate Hymcnoptera but also in the Phytophaga and 

 the Parasitica. Special parts of the collection illustrate the 

 habits and life-history of ants, and the mimicry of ants and 

 of other Aculeate Hymenoptera, In addition to the Oriental 

 material, ants from many other parts of the world arc included 

 in the collection. 



(2) A i3-dra\ver cabinet containing English Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera all in very fine condition. The collection con- 

 tains the first male and female specimens of Formica exsecta 

 taken in Britain, the example, until recently unique, of 

 Ody nevus herricJui- { = basalis), Dorset, 1868, and many rare 

 species. 



(3) A large number of boxes containing Oriental insects of 

 various orders, and one box of South American Hymenoptera'. 

 The Lepidoptera and Odonata (Dragon- flies) captured by the 

 donor in Barrackpore Park are in very fine condition. Many 

 of the latter series of Lepidoptera were contained in the last 

 drawers of cabinet (i), but they have now, with the consent 

 of the donor, been removed in order to be fully labelled and 

 incorporated in the general collection. Their place in the 

 cabinet is in part taken by Hymenoptera previously stored 

 in unsafe *" cartons," the majority forming a Javan collection 

 presented by Mr. Rothney in the present year. 



(4) Ninety-two volumes and a large number of unbound 

 papers, of, which the great majority deal with the Hymeno- 

 ptera, and many with the material of the Rothney collection. 

 See pp. 30, 31 for a further account of the books, &c., 

 added to the Hope Library. 



2. Work done by the Staff. 



Mr. W. Holland, in addition to the periodical incorporation 

 of specimens in the collections of various groups of insects, 

 undertook the following important pieces of work : — the 

 arrangement, verification of names, and classification of data 

 of the 6,000 butterflies —chiefly Malayan — from the Van der 

 Poll collection ; the preliminary arrangement of several of 

 the earlier families of moths ; the re-arrangement of the large 



