118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A Coleopteron, thirty-two Lepidoptera, two Hymenoptera, 

 and nine Neuroptera, from Bahia; presented by D. Wilson 

 Barker, Esq. 



(From Africa.) 



Eighty Lepidoptera, including specimens of Periplysia leda, 

 Teracolus imperator, and Papilio philonoe, two Hymenop- 

 tera, and one Neuropteron from Wasin, East Africa ; presented 

 by Lieut. Gordon S. Gunn, r.n. 



Thirty Odonata and one butterfly (Aterica sp.) from Accra 

 and Pulomai ; presented by Mr. A. Doncaster. 



Twenty-four Lepidoptera from the Subaki River district, 

 East Africa, including the types of four new species {Papilio 

 utuha, Coladenia maculata, Henucha dentata and Terina 

 fulva) ; presented by Keith Anstruther, Esq. 



Eighty Lepidoptera, including specimens of Tulhaghia 

 meneris, and a rare moth (Jana signifera), from South 

 Africa ; presented by the Rev. R. W. Lewis. 



Thirty-eight Orthoptera, twenty-six Hymenoptera, twenty- 

 five Hemiptera, and a Ccenagrion, from South Africa ; pre- 

 sented by H. A. Spencer, Esq. 



Nine hundred and fifty-five Lepidoptera, from Lagos, chiefly 

 valuable for completing the Museum series ; presented by His 

 Excellency Sir Alfred Moloney, c.m.g. 



Eight Lepidoptera, including the probable male of a rare 

 butterfly (Mimacrcea darwinia), and a species of the long- 

 tailed Saturniid genus Eudcemonia ; three Rhynchota, and 

 a Mantis, from Sierra Leone ; purchased. 



(From Madagascar.) 



The male of a butterfly {Belenois antsianaka), new to the 

 collection, from Madagascar ; presented by the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild. 



Seven social cocoons of a moth {Hypsoides hipars), from 

 North- West Madagascar ; presented by J. T. Last, Esq. 



Forty butterflies, from Betsileo, including specimens of 

 Salamis anteva, and other species, badly represented in the 

 Museum series ; purchased. 



Twelve Formicidse, twelve Hemiptera, and an Orthopteron 

 of the genus Perisphwria from Madagascar and South Africa ; 

 collected and presented by G. F. Scott Elliot, Esq. 



(From Southern Asia.) 



Four pelagic Hemiptera (Halohates hayanus) from the Red 

 Sea near Aden ; presented by Dr. J. Buchanan White. 



A hundred and twenty-two Lepidoptera, including the 

 types of sixty-seven species recently described by the donor, 

 from various parts of India and Burmah ; presented by Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe. 



Eighty-one Neuroptera, four Diptera, two Hymenoptera, 



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