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Monsieur H. Schouteden, of Brussels, examined the types 
of African Hemiptera, and kindly assisted in naming the 
most obscure and difficult of the Burchell specimens from 
this region. 
Monsieur H. Boileau, of Paris, studied the collection of 
Lucanidae, and has undertaken to write a paper describing 
the features of special interest in the University collection 
of this group of beetles. 
Dr. Albert Schulz, during a brief visit, examined some of 
the most obscure sections of the Hymenoptera Parasitica. 
He is engaged upon a memoir, for which a careful investiga- 
tion of the late Professor Westwood’s types of 77zgonalidae 
has been necessary. 
Mr. Rowland E. Turner visited the Department in order to 
see the collection of the remarkable Aculeate family, the 
Thynnidae, chiefly found in Australia. He has very kindly 
promised to help the University in the determination and 
arrangement of the species. With this view the whole 
material has been repinned, and fresh labels with the old 
determinations are being supplied to all the specimens. 
Mr. W. J. Kaye came in order to help in the arrangement 
of the material, chiefly his own, but in part belonging to the 
Department, photographed by Mr. Robinson and reproduced 
in the four uncoloured plates of his memoir (Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1906, p. 411). 
Mr. Ernest A. Elliott brought a small collection of butter- 
flies from the British East African Protectorate. Nearly all 
the species were named by comparison with the University 
collection, and Mr. Elliott generously presented several rare 
and interesting forms. 
Very kind help with the Lycaenidae and Hesperidae has 
been rendered, as in previous years, by Mr. Hamilton H. 
Druce, F.L.S., F.E.S. 
Monsieur Jules Bourgeois, of S'®? Marie-aux-Mines, has 
- continued the very kind assistance he has rendered in earlier 
years in the difficult task of determining the species in the 
large collection of Malacoderm Coleoptera, the group in 
