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including co-types of two specics shortly to be described by 
the donor, were presented by M. Jacoby, Esq., F.E.S. 
A set of 6 g and 5 9 specimens of the Asilid fly Promachus 
anicius, from Macao (May, 1906), was presented by the captor, 
J. C. Kershaw, Esq. In two cases the specimens had been 
taken 7 coitu. These insects had unfortunately become 
damp and mouldy, and it was therefore impossible to cata- 
logue them, although they have been incorporated in the 
collection. 
Many specimens illustrating Motes upon some remarkable 
parasitic insects from North Queensland were presented by 
the author, F. P. Dodd, Esq., F.E.S. This interesting and 
valuable material includes the following types of Hymeno- 
ptera Parasitica described by Col. C, T. Bingham: Apanteles 
deliadis, together with its hyper-parasite Microterys coeruleus, 
the former bred from the larva of the Pierine butterfly Delzas 
argenthona; Microgaster basalis, with the moth larvae from 
which it was bred; JZicrogaster perelegans; Protapanteles 
rufiventris; Stomatoceras fasciatipennis ; Rhipipallus affints ; 
Schizaspidia doddi. The specimens illustrate many new 
observations upon the life-histories of parasites. Thus the 
genus of the last-named species, a remarkable and beautiful 
Chalcidid, was described by Professor Westwood, but the 
host has never been known. Mr. Dodd has, however, shown 
that, in the case of S. doddi, it is a large ant of the genus 
Camponotus. The collection also includes the host (the Attid 
spider Cosmophasis bitaeniata) from which a new species of 
Cyrtid fly was bred, Ogcodes doddi. The type of the latter 
is in Dr. Wandolleck’s famous collection at Dresden. This 
deeply interesting material is catalogued under 35 numbers, 
but the specimens are far more numerous, inasmuch as several 
of the cards bear many individuals. 
A large amount of the material described in the memoir 
Predaceous Insects and their Prey (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1906, pp. 323-409) was presented during the year 1906 by the 
following naturalists. Asz/zdae and their prey constitute the 
great majority of the examples indicated by the numbers. 
