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COLLECTIONS RECEIVED. 



The thanks of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology are due to the following 

 gentlemen, who have kindly presented collections of insects (received between 

 1st October and 31st December, 1914) : — 



Dr. W. M. Aders : — 3 Culicidae, 3 Culicid larvae, 2 Hippoboscidae, 2 Coleoptera, 

 2 Lepidoptera, and 2 Ticks ; from Zanzibar. 



Capt. C. H. Armitage, C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief Commissioner : — 55 Culicidae, 

 1 Phlebotomus, 5 Tahanus, 77 Glossina tachinoides, 4 other Diptera, and 4 Hymenoptera; 

 from the Northern Territories, Gold Coast. 



Dr. Andrew BaKour, C.M.G., M.D., Director-in-Chief, Wellcome Bureau of 

 Scientific Research : — 20 Hymenoptera, 27 Mallophaga, 25 Orthoptera, 6 Mites, 

 and 25 Spiders ; from Bogota, Colombia. 



Mr. G. E. Bodkin, Government Economic Biologist : — 1 Fly, 28 Hymenoptera, 

 10 Coleoptera, 4 Lepidoptera, 53 Termites, 62 Mallophaga, 1 sp. of Coccidae, 

 6 Rhynchota, 2 Orthoptera, 6 Thysanura and 1 Spider ; from British Guiana. 



Mr. John R. Bovell, Superintendent of Agriculture : — 1 Tabanus, 112 Hymenoptera, 

 13 Coleoptera, 11 Lepidoptera, 14 sUdes of Parasitic Hymenoptera, Ants, Termites, 

 and Coccidae ; from Barbados. 



Mr. E. C. Chubb, Curator of the Durban Museum : — 192 Culicidae, and 84 Odonata ; 

 from Natal. 



Dr. P. A. Clearkin, W.A.M.S. : — 15 Culicidae, 2 Tabanm^ 5 Glossina^ 1 Syrphid, 

 and 9 Ticks ; from Sierra Leone. 



Dr. J. F. Corson, W.A.M.S. :— 54 Ticks ; from Northern Territories, Gold Coast. 



Dr. J. B. Davey, M.O. : — 15 Butterflies, and 91 Moths ; from Blantyre, Nyasaland. 



Dr. G. C. H. Davies, Government Medical Officer : — 31 Culicidae ; from Tulagi, 

 British Solomon Islands. 



Mr. C. 0. Farquharson, Government Mycologist : — 26 Coleoptera, 1 Bug, and an 

 Embiid nest ; from Calabar, Southern Nigeria. 



Dr. G. A. Finlayson, Government Pathologist : — 152 Culicidae, 1 Tahanus, 9 other 

 Diptera, and I Moth ; from Singapore. 



Mr. Ernest Hargreaves : — 300 cotton-boll weevils ; from Louisiana, U.S.A. 



Dr. F. S. Harper, W.A.M.S. : — 13 Dipterous larvae, and 13 Ticks ; from Northern 

 Territories, Gold Coast. 



Mr. Gerald F. Hill, Government Entomologist \- — 44 Diptera, 3 Dipterous larvae, 

 5 Dipterous pupae, 1 Flea, 64 Hymenoptera, 3 Hymenopterous pupa cases, 10 Cole- 

 optera, 8 Lepidoptera, 2 species of Coccidae, 16 other Rhynchota, 5 Orthoptera, 

 and 20 CoUembola ; from the Northern Territory, Australia. 



Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies : — 23 Coleoptera ; from 

 Barbados. 



Mr. Rupert W. Jack : — 54 Lepidoptera ; from Salisbury, Rhodesia. 



