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Young, Foxcroft, and Mansell. Many interesting Hymenoptera have 

 also been presented by Messrs. Smith, Lubbock, H. W. Newman, and 

 Golding. Various Lepidoptera, generally in beautiful condition, have 

 been received from Messrs. H. Doubleday, Douglas, T. H. Allis, Bar- 

 low, and Mrs. Vines : and other insects from Messrs Meade, Brown 

 (of Burton-upon-Trent), and Mr. De Gand. Various interesting col- 

 lections, containing many exotic novelties, have also been received 

 in England from Messrs. Bates and Wallace in Brazil, Mr. Wilson 

 of Adelaide, and Dr. Fitch, of North America. 



Our British Fauna, during the past year, has also received some va- 

 luable accessions. Amongst Coleoptera, the most interesting have 

 been Dircaea discolor, collected in Scotland by Mr. Weaver ; Aepus 

 Robinii, detected by M. Javet, and taken by himself in the North, and 

 by Mr. Wollaston on the south coast ; with several new species of 

 Curculionidae. In Lepidoptera, Gastropacha Ilicifolia, taken by the 

 Rev. Mr. Atkinson on Cannock Chace, and its larvae near Sheffield ; 

 Trochilium Chrysidiforme, by Mr. Barron near Haslar, in Hampshire; 

 together with a considerable number of new Micro-Lepidoptera, 

 chiefly recorded by Messrs. Stainton and Douglas. In Hymenoptera, 

 Bombus arcticus has been taken by Mr. Adam White, in the island 

 of Shetland; and Mr. F. Smith has added several new Aculeata to 

 our lists: and in Crustacea, a new genus of Amphipods, with several 

 new species belonging to the genera Pagurus, Portunus and Amphi- 

 thoe, have been described by Mr. Spence Bate, in the 'Annals of 

 Natural History.' 



The Entomological collection of the British Museum has, during 

 the two past years, received very great additions, for a notice of 

 which I am indebted to J. E. Gray, Esq. In 1850, 299 specimens 

 were received from Africa, 212 from North and 873 from South Ame- 

 rica, 477 from Turkey in Asia (presented by Mr. Loftus), 227 from 

 India, 333 from Hong Kong (presented by Capt. Champion), and 244 

 from the Indian Islands (presented by the East India Company), 888 

 from Australia (including the insects collected during the Exploring 

 Voyage of the Rattlesnake by Mi*. MacGillivray), 844 European, and 

 2184 British specimens ; together with 99 Crustacea froin the Medi- 

 terranean. 



In 1851, the British Museum received 280 specimens from Africa, 

 2756 from North and South America (including the collection made 

 by Sir John Richardson in the Arctic Searching Expedition), 570 

 from Asia and the Asiatic islands, 694 from Australasia and the 



