Catalogues and Original Papers. 71 



usually of the food-plants of each species, the natural colours 1886-1887. 



of the larvae being preserved by the process adopted. The larvae 



are accompanied by very complete series of specimens of the 



perfect insect. The collection is as valuable for classification as 



it is useful to the agriculturist and horticulturist, who are 



enabled to identify with its aid noxious species. It has been 



placed in two 20-drawer cabinets, in which each drawer can be 



pulled out by visitors, but only to within an inch of its end, 



By this contrivance the objects are secured from the bleaching 



influence of light, as well as from being handled by visitors. 



Beside this series, Lord Walsingham presented the Trustees 

 with a similar collection of larvae of Indian Moths, and with 

 his collection of North American Macrolepidoptera (1737 

 specimens). 



6920 Longicorn Coleoptera, 487 Bruchidaa, and 1404 Hispid* 

 were presented by Messrs. Godman and Salvin. This represents 

 the materials for the fifth volume of the Coleoptera of the 

 " Biologia Centrali- Americana," and is the second instalment of 

 the entomological collections of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, 

 mentioned on pp. 65, 66. 



CATALOGUES, GUIDES, AND DESCRIPTIVE PAPERS. 

 (1886-87.) 



The following Guides and Catalogues were published in these 

 two years : 



Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia. 3rd edition. 



Guide to the Gould Collection of Humming Birds. New 



Guide to the Galleries of Reptiles and Fishes. 



Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries. 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 11. By P. L. Sclater. Pp. 431, 

 with 18 plates. 1886. 



Catalogue of Lizards. Vol. 3. By G. A. Boulenger. Pp. 575, 

 with 40 plates. 1887. The first two volumes, of 436 and 497 

 pages, with 32 and 24 plates, had been published in 1885. 



Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera. 

 Part 6. By A. G. Butler. Pp. 89. Plates 101-120. 

 1886. 4. 



To attain the ultimate object for which zoological specimens 

 are collected and acquired for the British Museum, and to render 

 them available for the progress of science, acquisitions which 

 were known or promised to yield important results, were 



