122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(From Europe.) 



A curiously marked specimen of Pamassius delius from 

 Kandersteg, Switzerland ; presented by Lady Jenkyns. 



Seven Lepidoptera from Malta, including an aberrant 

 variety of Coliaa edusa ; presented by A. Cowper Field, 

 Esq. 



A hundred and sixty-nine Lepidoptera from Corsica ; pre- 

 sented by Colonel J. W. Yerbury. 



Thirty-two Diptera {Chilosia and Brachyopa) from 

 Austria, from the Kowarz collection ; presented by G. H. 

 Verall, Esq. 



Twenty-one Diptera, including five examples of Ghloromyia 

 formosa from Switzerland and North Italy ; presented by 

 Coryndon Mathews, Esq. 



(From North America.) 



Sixty Lepidoptera, including the types of two new species 

 (Thamnonovia gracilior and Pseudosiona taylori) and 

 twenty other insects belonging to the Hymenoptera, Rhyn- 

 chota, Neuroptera and Orthoptera, from Manitoba, the 

 Mackenzie and Slave Rivers, collected by Miss Elizabeth 

 Taylor; purchased. 



A typical specimen of a rare butterfly {Argynnis victoria) 

 from Laggan, British North America ; also a specimen of 

 Ccenonympha haydeni, from Yellowstone Park ; presented 

 by W. H. Edwards, Esq. 



(From the West Indies.) 



Thirty Lepidoptera, including Laurona rujilinea and other 

 species, chiefly interesting for their locality, and seven other 

 insects, among which is a specimen of Ghrysantheda smavag- 

 dina, from Trinidad ; presented by Captain C. J. Clark. 



Two hundred and twenty-six Formicidce, chiefly from St. 

 Vincent, but including the types of forty-four species from 

 other localities, named by the donor ; presented by Professor 

 A. Forel. 



Two hundred and forty Lepidoptera, chiefly Hesperiidce, 

 and one Dipteron from Barbados ; presented by R. E. E. 

 Frampton, Esq. 



Twenty-three Lepidoptera, including Castnia palatina, 

 and other interesting species from Trinidad; presented by 

 H. F. Wilson, Esq. 



(From South America.) 



Twenty-four Lepidoptera, eleven Hymenoptera, including 

 a Bee (Eulema cayennensis) caught in the flower of an 

 Orchid (Cattleya superha) ; two examples of Tabanus occi- 

 dentalis, known in the colony as the Cow-fly, and seven 



other 



