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a Dipterous insect {Pterocosmus velutinus) from the Khasia 

 Hills ; presented by Colonel Charles Swinhoe. 



Thirty-three Coleoptera, including a series of Odontolabis 

 lowei, and three Wasps' nests from Mount Kina-Balu, N. 

 Borneo ; presented by J. Whitehead, Esq. 



A hundred and twelve Coleoptera, principally from Burma, 

 including two examples of a very rare species (Mouhotia 

 batesi) from Moulmein ; presented by the Right Honourable 

 Lord Dormer. 



Seventy-eight Heterocerous Lepidoptera, many of them 

 previously very poorly represented in the collection, from 

 Trevandrum, Travancore ; five Lepidoptera from Ceylon, a 

 species of Psychid (Amatissa consorta) very destructive to 

 tea, and a specimen of a Noctuid (Mudaria cornifrons) 

 destructive to cotton, from Bengal ; presented by G. F. Hamp- 

 son, Esq. 



Eleven Butterflies, including a specimen of Tanaecia 

 supercilia, from Salanger ; presented by T. E. Sanson, Esq. 



Twenty-six Lepidoptera from Sarawak, including Tanaecia 

 apsarasa, a species new to the collection, Charaxes harpax, 

 Taractrocera ardonia, &;c. ; presented by Edward Bartlett, 

 Esq. 



Fifty Lepidoptera and two Neuroptera, including specimens 

 of Amathusia ottomana, the female of Eurytela castelnaui, 

 Milionia sharpei, and other rare or undescribed species from 

 Sandakan, N.E. Borneo ; presented by W. B. Pryer, Esq. 



Sixty-seven type specimens of Lepidoptera, from the 

 Khasia Hills and Malay Islands ; purchased. 



Fifty specimens of a Tea-bug (Heliopeltis theivora) the 

 male of which was previously unknown, from Assam ; pre- 

 sented by Frank Austen, Esq. 



(From Australia and New Zealand.) 



Thirty Diptera and twenty-one Hymenoptera, including 

 the types of five new species of Saw-flies {Perga divaricata, 

 P. sericea, P. sellata, P. lalage and Cerealces cyathiformis) 

 from Melbourne; presented by Charles French, Esq. 



Twenty Hymenoptera, four Orthoptera, seven Odonata, and 

 seven other insects, from Toowoomba ; presented by G. A. 

 Higlett. Esq. 



Four hundred Coleoptera, all new to the collection, and 

 representing species named by Captain Brown, from New 

 Zealand ; purchased. 



Two hundred and fifty Hymenoptera from Queensland, 

 and nine from New Zealand ; presented by E. Saunders, Esq. 



Six Butterflies of the family Hesperiidce, including the 

 types of four new species (Trapezites dispar, T. anderaoni, 

 Telesto comma and Hesperilla perornata) ; also Hesperilla 

 arsenia, a species new to the collection, from Victoria, 

 Australia ; presented by Messrs. Anderson and Spry. 



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