110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Neurbptera, from Foo Chow, China ; presented by J. de la 

 Touche, Esq. 



Eighty-five Insects of various orders from Bonin Island 

 and Japan ; purchased. 



A hundred and fifty Moths from Ichang ; presented by 

 H. E. Hobson, Esq. 



Fifty-seven Neuroptera from Borneo, Java, and Malacca ; 

 presented by John "Whitehead, Esq. 



Twenty-five Butterflies and four Moths from Borneo; pre- 

 sented by Charles Hose, Esq. 



Eighty Lepidoptera, including the types of two new genera 

 (iMydrothauvia ada and Siglophora hello), with other species 

 new to the collection ; also two Neuroptera, from Sandakan, 

 North-east Borneo ; presented by W. B. Pryer, Esq. 



(From the Pacific Islands.) 



Two examples of Ornithoptera urvilliana, from Guadal- 

 canar, Solomon Group ; received in exchange. 



(From various Localities.) 



Seventy-six Lepidoptera and two hundred and sixteen 

 Rhynchota, including ninety-six named British Hemiptera, 

 formerly part of the collection of the late W. Wilson Saunders, 

 Esq. ; presented by F. S. Cripps, Esq. 



A hundred and eighty Lepidoptera, fifty Hymenoptera, 

 twenty-six Orthoptera, and forty other Insects ; presented by 

 Miss Emma Phipson. 



An important collection of two hundred and ninety 

 Chrysididse, comprising one hundred and fifty-one species 

 named by Hr. A. Mocsary ; purchased. 



Vermes. — In this class the number of additions were one 

 hundred and forty-nine ; the following are worthy of 

 mention : — 



Three examples of the curious Tubes formed by Nothria 

 willemoesii from Japan ; purchased. 



Seven specimens of a new species of Tristomum (T. hist- 

 iophori) ; found among the collections bequeathed by the 

 late Deputy Surgeon General F. Day. 



Three examples of the musical Earthworm {Megascolex 

 musicus) from Batavia ; collected and presented by R. 

 Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



A series of fifty land Planarians, chiefly representatives of 

 new Victorian species lately described by the donor; also an 

 example of Peripatus insignis, and three of the red and blue 

 varieties of P. leuckarti; presented by Dr. Dendy. 



Eddnoderms. — To this class three hundred and twenty- 



