122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(From Europe.) 



A curiously marked specimen of Parnassius delius from 

 Kandersteg, Switzerland ; presented by Lady Jenkyns. 



Seven Lepidoptera from Malta, including an aberrant 

 variety of Colias edusa ; presented by A. Cowper Field, 

 Esq. 



A hundred and sixty-nine Lepidoptera from Corsica ; pre- 

 sented by Colonel J. W. Yerbury. 



Thirty-two Diptera {Chilosia and Brachyopa) from 

 Austria, from the Kowarz collection; presented by G. H. 

 Verall, Esq. 



Twenty-one Diptera, including five examples of Ghloromyia 

 formosa from Switzerland and North Italy ; presented by 

 Coryndon Mathews, Esq. 



(From North America.) 



Sixty Lepidoptera, including the types of two new species 

 {Thamnonoma gracilior and Pseudosiona taylori) and 

 twenty other insects belonging to the Hymenoptera, Rhyn- 

 chota, Neuroptera and Orthoptera, from Manitoba, the 

 Mackenzie and Slave Rivers, collected by Miss Elizabeth 

 Taylor ; purchased. 



A typical specimen of a rare butterfly (Argynnis victoria) 

 from Laggan, British North America ; also a specimen of 

 Ccenonympha kaydeni, from Yellowstone Park ; presented 

 by W. H. Edwards, Esq. 



(From the West Indies.) 



Thirty Lepidoptera, including Laurona rujilinea and other 

 species, chiefly interesting for their locality, and seven other 

 insects, among which is a specimen of Ghrysantheda smarag- 

 dina, from Trinidad ; presented by Captain C. J. Clark. 



Two hundred and twenty-six Formicidce, chiefly from St. 

 Vincent, but including the types of forty-four species from 

 other localities, named by the donor ; presented by Professor 

 A. Forel. 



Two hundred and forty Lepidoptera, chiefly Hesperiidce, 

 and one Dipteron from Barbados j presented by R. E. E. 

 Frampton, Esq. 



Twenty-three Lepidoptera, including Gastnia palatina, 

 and other interesting species from Trinidad ; presented by 

 H. F. Wilson, Esq. 



(From South America.) 



Twenty-four Lepidoptera, eleven Hymenoptera, including 

 a Bee {Eulema cayennensis) caught in the flower of an 

 Orchid {Gattleya superba) ; two examples of Tabanus occi- 

 dentalia, known in the colony as the Cow-fly, and seven 



other 



