120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Various consignments have been sent on loan to specialists;, 

 who have in all cases determined the specimens sent, and in 

 many instances described new species ; these include consign- 

 ments of Sphegidse to Dr. F. F. Kohl, of Vienna, and of Vespidse 

 to Vicomte du Buysson, of Paris. 



Among the NEUROPTERA, the Odonata of the Godman- 

 Salvin collection have been received and placed with the general 

 collection. A large loan of Termitidse has been returned by 

 M. Nils Holmgren, of Stockholm ; loans of Myrmeleonidse and 

 Calopteryginse have also been sent out, some of which are still 

 in process of determination. 



The RHYNCHOTA have received an important addition 

 by the purchase of the Cicadidse of the Distant collection. The 

 incorporation of these with the Cicadidse of the general col- 

 lection has been commenced, and has necessitated an entire 

 rearrangement of the family. Several collections of Rhynchota 

 from Australia, the Aru and Solomon Islands, and from Tropical 

 America have been received during the year, and have been 

 worked out and incorporated in the general collection. 



The MALLOPHAGA, ANOPLURA, and other parasitic 

 insects have been attended to, with the object of making them 

 more readily accessible and better fitted for examination. The 

 spirit specimens have all been placed in glass tubes, which have 

 been arranged in a deep-drawer cabinet adapted for holding 

 the tubes ; and many of the specimens, both dry and from 

 spirit, have been prepared and mounted as microscopic slides. 

 The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild has generously provided for 

 assistance in carrying out this work of preparation. 



In the LEPIDOPTERA considerable progress has been 

 made in transferring the Lycfenida^ from the old to the new 

 pattern cabinets, and in the incorporation and arrangement at 

 the same time of the specimens belonging to that family con- 

 tained in the Godman-Salvin, Hewitson, and other collections. 

 This work has been carried out by Mr. R, South. The trans- 

 ference of PieriucS into the new glass-bottom drawers has been 

 completed ; the Papilioninfe have been expanded, and a com- 

 mencement has been made with the rearrangement of the 

 Saty rinse. 



During the year 1911 the plates belonging to Vol. 10 of the 

 Catalogue of Moths have been published, and nearly the whole 

 of Vol. 11 dealing with the small sub-families Eutelianse, Stic- 

 topterinse, Sarrothripinse, and Acontianas has been passed 

 through the press and the plates prepared. These sub-families^ 

 have also been rearranged. The rearrangement of the Pyralid 

 sub-family Pyraustinse has been completed, and the families 

 Callidulidse, Drepanidse, and Thj^rididae rearranged, and a large 

 number of recent accessions incorporated. 



In the ivlicro-Lepidoptera the rearrangement of the Gele- 

 chiadfe, Oecophorida?, etc., in connection with work on the 

 Neotropical genera of these families, has been continued, and 



