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arranged, with the kind help of Commander Walker, by 
Mr. Collins, in thirty drawers, so that any student of British 
“ground-beetles” who visits the Department will at once 
realize how much the University Collection of these fine 
insects is indebted to Mr. Holland’s generosity. Out of 
nearly 4,400 specimens already arranged, over three-quarters 
have been presented by him. All possess admirable data of 
time and place, and the great majority—captured in the 
Reading and Oxford districts—have the additional interest 
of being representative of the neighbourhood. 
One hundred and ninety-four Coleoptera and 54 Hemiptera 
from many British localities were presented by H. St. J. K. 
Donisthorpe, Esq., F.E.S. The localities include the Isle of 
Wight (1894), Middlesex (1892, 1906), Kent (1890, 1906), Berk- 
shire (1906), Norfolk (1906), Surrey (1893, 1905, 1906), Dorset 
(1896, 1906), Hertford (1906), Hampshire (1906), N. Wales 
(1906), Durham (1906), Devonshire (1906), Cumberland (1903), 
Bedford (1906), Birmingham (1906), Staffordshire (1906), 
Cambridgeshire (1893), Perthshire (1900), Leicestershire (1902), 
Northumberland (tgoo), Sussex (1895). This valuable dona- 
tion to the British Collection brings the number of species 
of British Coleoptera to 1,375 out of a total of 3,294, pre- 
sented by the same generous friend of the Hope Depart- 
ment. A minute Hymenopteron and the following interesting 
addition to the bionomic series were also presented by the 
same kind donor :—A Zenthredo (Hymenoptera Phytophaga) 
captured with its Dipterous mimic in the New Forest (July 17, 
1906), and another pair from Harlech, N. Wales (June 22, 
1906); numerous fragments of insects from an owl’s nest 
(Richmond Park, March 20, 1906) and the excrementa of 
birds (Cheshunt, Hertford, June 19, 1906, and Sutton Broad, 
Norfolk, June 8, 1906). The latter of these consisted of 
fragments of Phytophagous beetles of the genus Donacia, 
found upon freshwater plants. 
The following specimens were presented by W. J. Lucas, 
Esq., B.A., F.E.S., who has rendered kind assistance to the 
Department for many years. A set of 8 examples of the 
Blattid Letobius lapponicus (Surrey, 1896-8, and the New 
