150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



MoLLUSCA — continued. 



Forty- five land and freshwater shells from Nigeria and 

 Lagone District, South of Lake Chad; presented by P, A, 

 Talbot, Esq. 



Twenty-nine marine shells from Madeira, including the 

 types of nineteen species described by the Rev. R. Boog 

 Watson ] presented by J. R. Le B. Tomlin, Esq. 



America. 



Thirty-one land and freshwater shells from New Mexico, 

 including several new varieties ; presented by Prof. T. P. A. 



Cockerell. 



Thirty- one marine shells from Vancouver Island, collected 

 and presented by Miss H. L. M. Pixell. 



Thirteen hundred and thirty-nine land, freshwater, and 

 marine shells from Bermuda, including many species new to 

 the collection ; presented by Major A. J. Peile, R.A. 



Australasia. 



Forty-two marine shells from South Dutch New Guinea ; 

 presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists* 

 Union New Guinea Expedition Fund. 



Three hundred and thirty-four specimens of the genus 

 Physa from exact localities in South Australia ; presented 

 by W, T. Bednall, Esq. 



Eighteen marine shells from South Australia, representative 

 of eight species new to the collection ; presented by Pr. J. (7. 

 Verco. 



Insecta. 



The number of specimens added to this part of the col- 

 lection during the year is one hundred and eighteen thousand 

 and twenty-two, made up as follows : — 



Coleoptera ------- 55,887 



Lepidoptera ------- 2G,040 



Hymenoptera ------- 11,661 



Diptera -------- 8,542 



Rhynchota - - - - - - - 7,967 



Orthoptera ------- 2,947 



Neuroptera ------- 4,732 



Nests, eggs, larvse, etc. ----- 246 



Total - - - 118,022 



The most important of these accessions are the following : — 



From various localities. 



Five thousand six hundred and thirteen Micro-Lepidoptera 

 from Queensland, French Guiana and S. Europe ; presented by 

 the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. 



