314: Scientific Notices. 



dead Bergius, a select and uncommonly fine collection of Cape 

 Insects. Bergius was followed by Krebs, whose collection, formed 

 at the Cape and especially in the distant district of Vitenhagen, 

 increased so greatly the number of new species that this addition 

 must be considered, in an entomological point of view, as one of 

 the most important. Lastly among the collections in Natural 

 History, made at the Cape by Mund and Maire, were many new 

 and remarkable additions to Entomology. The transmissions of our 

 travellers in Egypt and Nubia, Dps. Ehrenbcrg and Ilemprich, 

 have also contributed not a little, by their surprising richness, to 

 the increase of our Insect Collection ; although we have yet re- 

 ceived but a small part of their collections, the travellers having 

 determined, as the safer mode of conveyance, to bring with them 

 their entomological treasures Avhen they return to Europe at the 

 end of the ensuing year. The collection too which was formed 

 by Dr. Von Chamisso, in a very difierent part of the earth, on 

 occasion of the Russian voyage of discovery, has been communis 

 cated to the Museum ; and finally it remains to notice the journey 

 of Dr. Eversmann from Orenburg to Bochara, which has been 

 productive, in a entomological point of view, of no trifling 

 advantage." 



After speaking of the additions made by way of exchange, &c. 

 and adverting to the condition of the Insects and of the Cabinets 

 in which they are contained, Dr. Klug proceeds as follows : 



'' An enumeration of the collection has not been lately made. 

 At the present moment such a proceeding is impossible, as in 

 several divisions the newly arrived species have not yet been 

 referred to their proper situations. The Ilemiptera alone were a 

 short time since numbered, and found to amount, without com- 

 prehending the last arrivals from Monte Video and those from 

 Egypt, the Ileteroptera to 1,540, and the Homoptera to 920, in 

 all 2,460 species. The number of the three first great divisions 

 of the Glossata was also taken, and found to amount to 2,488 

 Papiliones, and 1189 Sphmges and Dombi/ccs.^^ 



We have thus only one point of comparison of which we can 

 avail ourselves between the Cabinet of Jloffmansegg in 1820 and 

 that of the Royal Museum of Berlin in 1824; but taking for 



