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porated from small S. African collections made at various 
localities and presented by the following donors :—Professor 
C. NV. Boys, F_R.S:, 16 specimens; Professor’ C. V~ Boys and 
Colonel Bigg-Wither, 3 specimens ; Professor Hudson Beare, 
14 specimens; Miss Margaret L. Poulton, 20 specimens; Miss 
Poulton, 2 specimens ; Miss Thornley, 25 specimens; Professor 
W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 3 specimens ; Professor A. C. Seward, 
F.R.S., 2 specimens. 
Single S. African specimens were also presented by the 
following donors:—Miss Burley ; Miss Molly Jenkins; Miss 
Rose; H. Balfour, Esq., M.A., Exeter College; Professor 
Gene bryan, FR.S-5 ‘Ge, Weigh, Esq:5 “Professor WwW. . 
Scott, of Princeton University; E. H. Short, Esq. 
A very large red “tick” (Acarina) from Umkomaas, near 
Durban, Natal, was presented by E. A. S. Weale, Esq. The 
Acarid remained alive for several weeks, gradually contract- 
ing and extruding the immense mass of minute ova with 
which the body was filled. 
Single specimens from Mombasa were presented by Lord 
ivess, i keosand: Professor W: J. Sollas, PR.S:;) 2° by ‘CAA. 
Wiggins, Esq., and 2 by H. T. Ferrar, Esq. 
The “Durham Castle” steamed through a small flight of 
migratory locusts crossing the Red Sea from W. to E. on 
Sept. 30. A few specimens alighted on the ship, and examples 
were presented by Mrs. Hudson Beare, the Chief Officer, H. B. 
Marriott Watson, Esq., J. Hutchins-Ward, and the Professor. 
A Scarabaeid beetle which alighted on the ship was pre- 
sented by Mrs. E. B. Poulton. A Slatta and an Eristalis 
captured on the ship in the Mediterranean were presented by 
the Professor. 
Sixty-five insects, especially Coleoptera and Acridiidae, 
from various localities near Cairo, and a few between Suez 
and Cairo. (Oct. 4-8), have been catalogued and incorporated 
out of the-eallection presented by the Professor. The majority 
were captured in the Temple of the Sphinx (Oct. 5) and other 
localities near the Pyramids of Ghizeh (Oct. 5 and 6), and in 
the garden of the Barrage (Oct. 7). Six insects from the 
vicinity of Cairo (Oct. 6 and 7), chiefly the Zoological Gardens, 
