132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(From Asia.) 



Two hundred Coleoptera, three hundred and forty-one 

 Lepidoptera, and a "Wasp's Nest from Socotra ; collected by 

 Messrs. W. K. O. Grant and H. O. Forbes, during the Expedi- 

 tion to that island. 



One hundred and six Lepidoptera from Chitral ; presented 

 by Captain Colomb. 



Two hundred and twenty-two Lepidoptera from Woodlark 

 and Rossell Islands, etc. ; purchased. 



One hundred and twenty-six Neuroptera from the Philip- 

 pine Islands, etc. ; purchased. 



Sixty Coleoptera, fifty Neuroptera, and four Hymenoptera 

 from the Philippine Islands ; purchased. 



Thirty-six miscellaneous Insects and ten tubes of Termites 

 from Bangkok, Siam ; presented by H. Hillman, Esq. 



Forty -three miscellaneous Insects from Sumatra ; pur- 

 chased. 



Seventeen Butterflies from Celebes ; purchased. 



One hundred and sixty-four Moths from Central and 

 Northern Asia ; purchased. 



Fifty-five Butterflies, chiefly Lyceenidse, from Ceylon ; 

 received in exchange. 



Twenty-five Orthoptera from India ; presented by John 

 Shortt, Esq. 



Eleven Moths, including a teratomorphic specimen of 

 Chalcosia venosa, four Bees with symbiotic Acari, two Wasps' 

 nests, two woolly cocoons of Braconidse, a Longicorn Beetle, 

 three Embiidse, six specimens of Dyscritina, twelve larvse 

 and pupse of Lepidoptera and a Locust preserved with 

 Formol, a cofl'ee-leaf mined by larvse, a leaf with eggs of a 

 Hemipteron and twenty twigs with Coccidse attached, from 

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



Seven Beetles of the genus Parastasia, from the Malayan 

 Hegion ; received in exchange from the Hope Museum, 

 Oxford. 



Seventy-seven Coleoptera, twenty-four Orthoptera, three 

 Hymenoptera, seven Diptera, eighteen Rhynchota, and a 

 specimen of Agrion, from the Malay Archipelago ; 

 purchased. 



Four hundred and fifty Lepidoptera, forty-eight Coleop- 

 tera, fourteen Orthoptera, four Neuroptera, six Hymenoptera, 

 nine Diptera, and ten Ehynchota, from Singapore and Johore ; 

 presented by H. N. Ridley, Esq. 



Two hundred and twenty-five Moths from Sikkim and 

 Kashmir ; presented by Colonel Pilcher. 



One thousand one hundred and eighty-two Lepidoptera, 

 two hundred and ninety-two Neuroptera (chiefly Chrysopidse), 

 four hundred and eighty-three Orthoptera, from the Sand- 

 wich Islands ; presented by the Joint Committee of the 



