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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By R. P. Longinos Navas, S.J. 

 " Les Chrysopides (Ids. Nevr.) du Musee de Londres." Ann. 

 Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, xxxvii., pp. 292-330, and xxxviii., pp. 73— 

 114. 



By Herbert Campion. 



" Three new Species of Ceriagrion from West Africa (Order 

 Odonata)." Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 277. 



V. — Acquisitions. 



The number of specimens added to the Insect collection 

 during the year is 123,954, made up as shown in the following 

 table : — 





Donations. 



Exchanges. 



Purchases. 



-Totals. 



Coleoptera 



21,004 



246 



3,198 



24,448 



Lepidoptera 



37,311 



57 



1,332 



38,700 



Hymenoptera - 



14,019 



112 



10,019 



24,150 



Diptera . - - - 



8,784 



25 



3 



8,812 



Rhynchota 



5,409 



18 



3,004 



8,431 



Orthoptera 



1,209 



— 



2 



1,211 



Neuroptera 



221 



— 



2 



223 



Anoplura - - - - 



5,519 



— 



— 



5,519 



Mallophaga 



233 



- — 



. — 



223 



Siphonaptera 



10,007 



— 



— 



10,007 



Other Orders - 



867 



— 



— 



867 



Nests, Eggs, Pupse, Larvae, 



1,353 



— 



— 



1,353 



&c. 











Totals - 



105,936 



458 



17,560 



123,954 



The most important of these accessions are the following :— 



From various localities : — 



Eight thousand three hundred and ninety-seven Rhopa- 

 Jocera, chiefly American, including 362 types; iiresented by 

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



One thousand three hundred and seventy-five Tabanidse^ 

 being the whole of the collection of exotic Tabanidse formed by 

 J. Bigot, including many of Bigot's types and specimens named 

 by Macquart ; ]}'^'esented by J. C. Collin, Esq. 



Ten thousand Siphonaptera (Waterston Collection); pre- 

 sented by an anonymous donor through G. A. K. Marshall, 

 Esq. 



Three hundred and seventy-four specimens of various 

 orders, mostly from N. Africa ; presented by the Hon. L. 

 Walter Rothschild. 



Two thousand four hundred and eleven specimens of various 

 orders ; presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 



Six hundred specimens of various orders ; presented by 

 C. Stewart Betton, Esq. 



