118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



E. E. Austen and F. O. Pickard Cambridge, during the expe- 

 dition of Messrs Siemens Brothers' cable S.S " Faraday," 

 from Para to Manaos. 



Twenty-four Coleoptera, forty-four Orthopteva, seventeen 

 Hymenoptera, seventeen Lepidoptera, five Diptera, and one 

 hundred and forty-three Rhynchota, from Colombia ; pur- 

 chased. 



Three hundred Coleoptera, eighty-two Lepidoptera, thirty 

 Hemiptera and eighteen Insects of other orders from various 

 parts of South America ; presented by 0. Thomas, Esq. 



Twenty Coleoptera, six Orthoptera, two Neuroptera, six 

 Hymenoptera, twelve Lepidoptera, and a Reduviid, from 

 Guayaquil ; exchanged with C. H. Dolby Tyler, Esq. 



Fourteen Coleoptera and eighty-eight Lepidoptera, in- 

 cluding some rare species of Antirrhcea, from Colombia; 

 purchased. 



(From the Australian Region.) 



Forty Hymenoptera, from Central Australia, exchanged 

 with Professor W. Baldwin Spencer. 



Nineteen species of Crambidcc, new to the collection, from 

 Australia and New Zealand ; presented by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



One Beetle, one Cockroach, two Locusts, and a Cicada, 

 from Chapman River, West Australia; purchased. 



(From Various Localities.) 



One hundred Coleoptera, ninety Orthoptera, sixty Hymen- 

 optera, five Lepidoptera, fifty Diptera, forty Hemiptera, ten 

 Homoptera, and one hundred and ten Economic Specimens 

 selected from the portions of the collection of the late F. P. 

 Pascoe, not included in the purchase, and presented by Miss 

 Pascoe. 



Three thousand and seventy-three Pierinoe, and two 

 hundred and ninety-nine Butterflies of various groups ; pre- 

 sented by F. Ducane Godman, Esq., f.k.s. ,and 0. Salvin, Esq., 



F.R.S. 



Sixty-five Hymenoptera, from the Mediterranean, and 

 thirty-four from Africa ; also twenty-one Neuroptera, and 

 thirty Diptera, from Africa ; presented by Philip de la Garde, 

 Esq., R.N. 



Three thousand Hymenoptera, collected by Colonel Bing- 

 ham ; purchased. 



Two thousand six hundred specimens of Cynijndce and 

 Tenthredinidce, the collection formed by Mr. P. Cameron, 

 containing six hundred and eighteen species, including one 

 hundred and forty-one types, three hundred and ninety-one 

 microscopic slides, and one hundred and three larva3 ; also 

 two hundred and forty-two drawings, galls, &;c. ; presented 

 by F. D. Godman, Esq., f.r.s. 



Forty-six 



