150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



MoLLUSCA — continued. 



Fifty land Mollusca, mainly from the Knysna Forest, 

 South Africa ; presented by Mrs. G. B. Longstaf. 



Eighty-four marine Mollusca from off Lagos ; presented by 

 J. Cadman, Esq. 



Pacific. 



Forty-seven shells from Lord Howe Id., including many 

 types ; purchased. 



Fifty-two shells from Norfolk Id., including many types ; 

 purchased. 



Sixty-one land Mollusca from Honolulu ; presented by 

 John H. Ponsonby, Esq. 



America, South. 



Thirty-one shells of land Mollusca from exotic localities in 

 E, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil ; purchased. 



Antarctica. 



Two hundred and seventy-two marine Mollusca from South 

 Georgia collected by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton 

 and P. Stammwitz ; presented by the British Association and 

 the Zoological Society of London. 



Myriopoda. 



The accessions number fifty-two ; with the exception of a 

 Leaf-Footed Centipede (Alipes grandidieri) from Uganda 

 none are of exceptional interest. 



Prototracheata. 



What was probably the best collection in the 'world of 

 Peripatus and its allies has been made, for man}" years to 

 come, incontestably the finest, by the accession of one hundred 

 and twenty-five examples, some of great rarity, and many 

 exceedingly well preserved, from the collection of the late 

 Professor Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. ; purchased. 



The first example of a Peripatus known to European 

 collections from Tobago was presented by the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, F.R.S. 



Arachnida. 



The acquisitions number nine hundred and nineteen, but 

 this does not include the second half of the Koch collection, 

 which will be included in the Return for 1915. The following 

 are the more important additions :— 



Miscellaneous. 



Two hundred and sixty-one Arachnida, including the types 

 of a new variety of Tick {Hcemaphysalis hoodi, var., orien- 

 talis) ; presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 



