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Parnassius mnemosyne (2 specimens), from the Pyrenees, 
presented by H. M. Wallis, Esq. 
Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Insecta (58 specimens), chiefly 
Lepidoptera, from Teneriffe, presented by Mrs. Holt White. 
Purchases in 1895 :-— 
Lepidoptera (almost exclusively Rhopalocera), and one 
specimen of a Coleopterous species (647 specimens), chiefly 
from Venezuela and Colombia, purchased from Watkins and 
Doncaster. The great majority of the specimens will form 
the nucleus of a special Collection illustrating Mimicry. 
Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (6 specimens), from Africa, pur- 
chased from E. Swinhoe. 
Professor Westwood’s private Collection, containing about 
1450 Lepidoptera and about 300 Coleoptera (captured by 
General Hearsey in India), purchased from Miss Swann. 
THE HOPE LIBRARY, 
Many necessary works of reference were purchased during 
the year, including the parts of Barrett’s ‘ British Lepidoptera’ 
and Saunders’ ‘ British Hymenoptera aculeata.’ 
The following works were presented by Professor Poulton :— 
Eight volumes of the Ray Society, 1885 to 1892 inclusive. 
Transactions, Entomological Society, from 1893 to 1895 
inclusive. 
Transactions and Journal of Linnaean Society, from 1893 to 
1895 inclusive. 
Vols. i to vi (inclusive), vol. viii, vols. xv to xxix (inclusive) 
of the Zoological Record, thus completing the series in the 
Library. 
The first four volumes of The Entomologist’s Record, from 
its beginning in 1890. 
Weismann’s Essays on Heredity, two vols., Oxford, 1891, 
1892. 
Butterflies and Moths of Teneriffe, by A. E. Holt White, 
one vol. 
Catalogue of the Library of the Entomological Society of 
London, one vol. 
