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the captor, C: N. Barker; Esq., P.E.S. “The great majority 
‘were captured in 1g03-4. Many specimens are of great 
value to the Department, and all are much wanted, inasmuch 
as Natal representatives in the University Collection are, 
except in Lepidoptera, comparatively few. 
Twenty-six butterflies (12 catalogued) from Howrah, near 
Calcutta (Jan., 1904); 15 butterflies (6 catalogued) from 
Mandalay (Feb., 1904); 14 butterflies (8 catalogued) from the 
neighbourhood of Modah, between Bhamo and Katha, Upper 
Burma (March, 1904), were presented by the captor, Miss 
Katherine Worrall. Some interesting examples of injuries, 
probably caused by the attacks of enemies, were included in 
the collection. These have been added to the bionomic 
series. 
Fifteen examples (13 catalogued) of the black ant, Pa/¢o- 
thyreus tarsatus, captured at Mapellapveda, 45 miles N.W. of 
Palapye Rd. Station (1904), by S. Blackbeard, Esq., were 
presented by Dr. Selmar Schonland, Hon. M.A., Curator of 
the Albany Museum at Grahamstown. These ants when 
disturbed defend themselves by emitting an intolerable odour 
like that of putrid meat. The specimens were exhibited, and 
Dr. Schonland’s notes read, at the meeting on June 1, 1904, of 
the Entomological Society of London (see Proceedings, 1904, 
pp. xl-xli). 
The following valuable set of specimens has been presented 
by G. C. Griffiths, Esq., F.E.S., who has so often aided the 
Hope Department :— 
One hundred and eighty-four Coleoptera (115 catalogued) 
from Assam, Madagascar, the neighbourhood of Toronto, and 
of Jacksonville, Florida. The American specimens were col- 
lected (those from the last-mentioned locality about 1886) by 
E. N. Collins, Esq. 
Twenty-two specimens (11 catalogued) of insects of various 
Orders, and Acarina from East Africa, probably Mombasa. 
Twenty-five butterflies (12 catalogued) from Yokohama, 
Nikko, Asama, and Hakone, Japan, collected (1902-3) by 
TZ. Lakano,. Esq, 
