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Insecta — continued. 



Eight hundred and seventy-four Hymenoptera and 197 

 Insects of other Orders, from the Valleys of the Zambesi and 

 Luangwa Rivers ; presented by the British South Africa 

 Company and the relatives of the late Mr. 0. C. Silverlock. 



Seven hundred and ninety-seven Lepidoptera, from Nigeria; 

 presented by Lieut. J. D. Sanders. 



A collection of 550 Hymenoptera from South Africa, 

 received from Dr. H. Brauns. 



Two hundred and fifty-four Diptera, collected by the Percy 

 Sladen Trust Expedition to the Seychelles ; presented by 

 Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S. 



America. 



Eight hundred and fifteen Hymenoptera from Brazil and 

 the Argentine ; presented by G. E. Bryant, Esq. 



Two hundred and sixty-two Insects of all Orders from 

 Trinidad ; presented by Guy A. K. Marshall, Esq. 



Two hundred and nineteen Insects of all Orders from 

 St. Kitts ; presented by J. J. Quelch, Esq. 



Two hundred and twenty - six Coleoptera from North 

 America and Mexico, received in exchange from Dr. A. Fenyes. 



Three thousand five hundred and twenty Coleoptera, 

 including 200 type-specimens, from Central America ; p)resented 

 by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq. D.C.L., F.R.S. 



Two hundred and twenty-three moths and three butterflies, 

 from Costa Kica ; presented by W. Schaus., Esq. 



Australasia and Pacific Ocean. 



Three hundred and ninety Hymenoptera and 245 Diptera 

 from Victoria ; presented by Charles French, Esq. 



Four hundred Australian Coleoptera, mostly type-specimens, 

 from the late Rev. Canon T. Blackburn's Collection. 



Three thousand one hundred and eighty-four Coleoptera, 

 1,06G Hymenoptera and 214 Neuroptera, from the Sandwich 

 Islands ; presented by the Joint Committee of the Royal Society 

 and the British Association for the Exploration of the 

 Sandwich Islands. 



Myriopoda. 



The accessions number 51, of which the more important 

 are as follows : — 



Two co-types of a Mexican Millipede (Rhiscosomides 

 Tnineri) ; received in exchange from Prof. F. Silvestri. 



Twenty-two Centipedes from Venezuela. 



Two Centipedes from Uganda, one of them representing an 

 undescribed genus of Scolopendridse ; presented by the 

 Entomological Research Committee. 



