110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



6. One thousand four hundred and eighty-two Birds, 

 representing about fifty species, chiefly of the family 

 Tanagridcc, from various parts of America ; presented by 

 F. D. Godman, Esq., f.e.s., and Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.R.S. 



7. A series of seventy-eight Reptiles and ninety-seven 

 Batrachians, selected from a collection made by Dr. J. Bohls 

 in Paraguay, and containing, besides several new species, 

 specimens of the long-sought-for Lepidosiren paradoxa, 

 a Dipnoous fish, of which only three or four specimens 

 had been found subsequently to its discovery in 1837 ; 

 purchased. 



8. The twelfth instalment of Central American Coleoptera, 

 consisting of two thousand five hundred and eighty-five 

 Phytophaga of the family Cassididce, and including one 

 hundred and ninety-eight of the two hundred and twenty- 

 seven species recorded from Central America, and fifty-six 

 ftypes of new species described by Mr. G. C. Champion, in the 

 sixth volume of the Biologia Centrali- Americana ; " also two 

 hundred and fifty-two Phytophaga of the family Jlispidce, 

 described by the same gentleman in the Supplement to that 

 volume ; presented by F. D. Godman, Esq., F.R.S., and 

 O. Salvin, Esq., F.R.S. 



9. The first instalment of Central American Orthoptera, 

 comprising five hundred and three specimens of ForficulidcB, 

 Blattidce, and Mantidce ; representing one hundred and 

 eighty-eight species with eighty-five types. The collections 

 have been described by Messrs. A. de Bormans, H. de 

 Saussure, and Dr. Leo Zehntner in the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, and presented by F. D. Godman, Esq., f.r.s., and 

 O. Salvin, Esq., F.R.S. 



10. The six first instalments of their collection of Butter- 

 flies of the Old World, consisting of four thousand eight 

 hundred and forty-four specimens, and including many type 

 specimens. The completeness and value of this series may 

 be judged from the fact that the genus Char axes alone, which 

 is so much prized by collectors, is represented by not less 

 than three hundred and seventy-nine specimens ; presented 

 hj F. D. Godman, Esq., F.R.S., and 0. Salvin, Esq., f.r.s. 



11. The collection of Coleoptera made in the Nilghiries 

 by Mr. Hampson, and consisting of one thousand eight 

 hundred specimens ; presented by G. F. Hampson, Esq. 



12. The collection of Butterflies of the Subfamily Sati/rince, 

 formed by Mr. F. Moore, consisting of one thousand seven 

 hundred and thirty-two specimens, of which one hundred 

 and thirty are types or co-types of new species ; purchased. 



13. The first half of the collection of Indian Lepidoptera 

 Heterocera formed by Mr. F. Moore, and long recognised as 

 one of the richest in species of any Indian collection in 



Europe : 



