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A valuable set of 59 British Coleoptera were presented by 
the Rev. G. A. Crawshay, F.E.S. The great majority were 
captured (1899-1904) by the donor near Leighton Buzzard, 
in various localities in the south of England, and a few in 
Yorkshire. The collection includes 5 specimens of Amara 
infima, hitherto only recorded from Surrey; 2 of the first 
specimens of Amara anthobia, to be recognized as distinct 
from A. lucida; 1 Harpalus discoideus, very local; 2 Corym- 
bites metallicus and 1 Saprinus metallicus, local and rare; 
2 Metoecus paradoxus, parasitic in the nests of wasps; also 
the following beetles, all more or less local and rare: JVotio- 
philus rufipes, Necrophorus vestigator, Cryptocephalus punctiger, 
Crepidodera nitidula, Trachodes hispidus. 
The following Fossorial wasps, four of them with prey, 
were presented by the captor, Mr. J. Collins, of the Hope 
Department: 2 Pompilus plumbeus, each with a spider ; 1 Oxy- 
belus uniglumis, with a fly; also 2 Agenia variegata, taken 
with the former specimens at Tubney Wood, near Oxford 
(July, 1905); 1 Stégimus solskyi with an Aphid, from Sunny- 
mead, near Oxford (July, 1905). 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS IN 1906, 
Twenty-two beetles, chiefly Coccinellidae, from various 
localities in Sarawak, N.W. Borneo, were presented by 
R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., Emmanuel College, 
Cambridge. 
Twenty-three Orthoptera (chiefly Blattdae, but also in- 
cluding MMJantidae and a Forficulid), from the following 
localities: New Zealand, Madagascar, Teneriffe, Borneo, 
Assam, Venezuela, British Guiana, and Brazil, were presented 
by R. Shelford, Esq. 
One hundred and thirty-eight insects of many Orders cap- 
tured in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore (Feb.—Sept., 1906), 
by H. N. Ridley, Esq., M:A., F.R.S., Exeter College,-~were 
presented by R. Shelford, Esq. The great majority were 
much wanted by the Department, and 104 are catalogued. 
A valuable series of 23 specimens of Blattidae from W. 
