12^ ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The second portion of Dr. F. Moore's Collection of Lepid- 

 optera Heterocera from India, Burma, &c., comprising the 

 Bombyces and Pyrales, and consisting of ten thousand five 

 hundred and ninety-one specimens, referable to two thousand 

 six hundred and eighty-nine species and nine hundred and 

 ninety-seven types ; purchased. 



A collection of one hundred and thirty-three Lepidoptera, 

 including rare species such as Colias ladakensis, and an un- 

 determined species from Ladakh ; collected and presented by 

 Captain F. E. S. Adair. 



Fifty insects of various orders, chiefly Hymenoptera from 

 Cashmere and other localities ; presented by J. H. Leech, 

 Esq. 



Eight Coleoptera, nineteen Hymenoptera, and one hundred 

 and forty-two Lepidoptera, including types of twenty-three 

 new species from Bhutan and Sikkim ; presented by G. C. 

 Dudgeon, Esq. 



A collection of three hundred and' thirty Lepidoptera 

 Heterocera, including twenty-one types collected by G. C. 

 Dudgeon, Esq., at Sikkim and Bhutan ; presented by G. F. 

 Hampson, Esq. 



One hundred and ninety-two Lepidoptera Heterocera, and 

 two Neuroptera, from Yatong, Sikkim ; presented by Colonel 

 C. T. Bingham. 



Three hundred and ninety-six Lepidoptera Heterocera, 

 including eight types collected by L. de Niceville, among 

 which Neocastnia nicevillei should specially be mentioned; 

 presented by G. F. Hampson, Esq. 



Seven hundred and sixty Lepidoptera, containing many 

 species, especially among the Lycoenidcu, of which the 

 Museum was in great w^ant, mostly from Burma ; presented 

 by Colonel C. T. Bingham. 



One hundred and fifty-four Coleoptera, comprising Rosalia 

 lameeri, Pachylocerus spilosus, Margites sulcicollis, and 

 Mecotagus guerinii, three hundred and four Lepidoptera, 

 seven pupse, twenty-six Diptera, and sixteen Rhynchota, 

 from Mysore, Burma, and Chin Hills ; presented by Captain 

 E. Y. Watson. 



Fifty-six Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Khasi Hills ; 

 purchased. 



Eighty-seven Lepidoptera Heterocera, collected by L. de 

 Niceville, including three new species, Syntorais plu- 

 ^nalis, Melanothrix nicevillei, and Ejn^dema nigrifrons, 

 collected at Toungoo, Burma ; presented by G. F. Hampson, 

 Esq. 



A collection of four hundred and thirty insects of various 

 orders, among which are twenty types of new species from 

 Ceylon ; collected and presented by E. E. Green, Esq. 



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