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collection illustrating the northern affinities of the butterflies 

 in the south temperate sub-region of South America. 



The following valuable donation was presented by P. de 

 la Garde, Esq. One hundred and sixty-one Rhynchota 

 Hemiptera and Homoptera, captured in the following locali- 

 ties : S. Africa (1892-4) chiefly Simonstown, Zanzibar (1893), 

 Rarotonga (1896), Fiji (1896), Sydney (1898), Hobart (1897), 

 Queensland, Brazil (i9oo), Monte Video (1900). Two hundred 

 Lepidoptera, chiefly butterflies, from a great variety of Euro- 

 pean localities (1890-1904), and 15 Lepidoptera from Asia 

 Minor, &c. An example of G. rapae, the " Small Garden 

 White," bred at Teignmouth (April 2, 1905) from a pupa 

 imported with bananas from the Canary Islands. An ant 

 from Monte Video. 



In addition to the above, 6,000 butterflies, almost ex- 

 clusively Malayan, and the Chevrolat Collection of Carabidae, 

 both forming part of the Van der Poll Collection, were pre- 

 sented by the Professor in 1909. 



Additions to the Collfxtioxs in 1910. 



Very fine accessions to the collection of Lepidoptera arc 

 due, as in previous years, to the generosity of Herbert Druce, 

 Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. Specimens from the following 

 localities have been incorporated : — 



Khasia Hills, Assam, 543 moths — chiefly Geometers and 

 Pyrales — and 3 Neuroptera. This series, of which 283 have 

 been catalogued, completes the fine collection from the Khasia 

 Hills, referred to above and in many earlier Rei^orts. 



Chanchamayo, Peru, 4 fine examples of the S}Mitomid moth 

 Isaiithrenc joda, H. Druce. 



Carabaya, Peru (G. R. Ockenden ; various localities and 

 dates), 531 moths (chiefly Geovictridae) and 17 butterflies. 



Upper Kassai River District, Congo State (Paul Landbeck), 

 287 butterflies and 40 insects of various groups. The butter- 

 flies include many Lycaoiidac and Hesperidac especially 

 wanted by the Department. 



Bitje, Ja River, Cameroons (G. L. Bates, 1909), 321 moths. 



