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Twenty-tive specimens of Lepidoptera, including five new 

 species from the country west of Lake Nyasa ; presented by 

 R. Crawshay, Esq. 



Five specimens of Coleoptera, forty-three of Lepidoptera, 

 and two Ehynchota, chiefly from the River Niger, between 

 Akassa and Asaba ; presented by Captain Lugard. 



Twenty-three Lepidoptera, including a new Papilio (ii 

 ])elodurus) ivom Zomba ; presented by Consul Alfred Sharpe, 

 through P. L. Sclater, Esq., f.e.s. 



One hundred and seventy-four insects of various orders 

 from Fwambo, British Central Africa ; purchased. 



One hundred and twenty Lepidoptera, including nine new 

 species, from British Central Africa ; collected and presented 

 by R. Crawshay, Esq. 



One hundred and one insects of various orders, collected 

 chiefly at Asaba ; purchased. 



Fifty Lepidoptera, seven Coleoptera, and eight Neuroptera 

 from Uganda and Highlands of Masai ; presented by G'. F. 

 Scott-Elliot, Esq. 



One hundred and fifty Coleoptera from Usaijnbara, East 

 Africa ; purchased. 



A collection of seven hundred specimens of various orders, 

 and including examples of Helioco'pris colossus, Banzania 

 splendens, Neptnnides stanleyi, Phrynetoides reyia, titer no- 

 tomis variahilis and Cero'plesis signata, from East Central 

 Africa ; presented by G. F. Scott-Elliot, Esq. 



Specimens of Cyrtacanthacris purjritrifera, a destructive 

 Locust, from South Africa ; presented by L. Peringuey, 

 Esq. 



A series of fifty Coleoptera, four Hymenoptera, six Diptera, 

 five Orthoptera, and six Hemiptera, chiefly from the Trans- 

 vaal ; presented by H. P. Thomasset, Esq. 



Two hundred and ninety -five insects of various orders, 

 including specimens of Anthia ferox, Polyhirma tetrastigma, 

 and Teitviiopterus epinipennis, from Somaliland ; presented 

 by E- Lort Phillips, Esq. 



A set of twenty Diptera from Somaliland ; presented by 

 Captain C. G. Nurse. 



Three examples of Coleoptera [ Ha/f)lothorax) from St. 

 Helena; presented by James Homagee, Esq. 



(From Asia. ) 



A collection of two hundred and thirty-four Lepidoptera, 

 including a new Lycaenid Butterfly (lolaus nursei), and 

 thirty-six Neuroptera, collected at Aden ; presented by 

 Colonel Yerbury. 



Seventy-six Diptera, from Aden ; collected and presented 

 by Captain C. G. Nurse. 



Ten Lepidoptera Heterocera, including Abraxas davidi, A. 

 etridoides, A. nyrnphidiana, Oheid.ia millepunctata, &c., 

 from Thibet and India ; presented by M. R. Oberthiir. 



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