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3. Seven additions have been made to the series of 

 Batrachians, mostly Newts, mounted for exhibition in the 

 Reptile Gallery. 



Forty-two skeletons of Percoid Fishes have been prepared. 



Among the specimens which were mounted for exhibition, 

 the following deserve special notice : — 



The shell and greater part of the skeleton of an extinct 

 gigantic Land Tortoise (Testudo grandidieri), from Mada- 

 gascar; a skeleton of a large fresh-water Perch (Lates 

 niloticus), from Egypt ; a stuffed specimen of a gigantic Sea 

 Perch (Epinephelus itaiara), from the Atlantic Coast of 

 South America; and a specimen, in spirit, of the South 

 American Mud-fish (Lepidosiren paradoxa). 



4. Among the more important Mollusca, which have been 

 mounted on tablets for exhibition in the Shell Gallery, are a 

 large and beautiful example of Cyprcea aurora, Murex mala- 

 baricus, Pleurotoma suhcorpulenta, Nassaria coroman- 

 delica, Turbo indicus, and Dentalium profundoruTn. 



5. The collection of dry specimens of Scorpions has been 

 cleaned and transferred from the crowded old cabinets into 

 new ones. 



6-9. Many thousand specimens of insects have been set ; 

 others, which had been badly mounted or placed on short 

 pins, have been either staged or re-set on a higher level, and 

 on the plan now usually adopted in English collections. 



Progress has been made with the exhibition-series of 

 Insects in the Insect Gallery, the objects being accompanied 

 by descriptive labels, and, generally, by enlarged drawings of 

 minute forms : — 



A series of specimens showing the classification of the 

 Order Hymenoptera ; 



Specimens illustrating the economy of the Hymenopterous 

 families Tenthredinidoi, Ickneumonidce, and Braconidce ; 

 also a series of specimens illustrative of the manner in which 

 Wasps' nests are formed ; nest of a Tree-wasp {Vespa nor- 

 vegica) built in a shrub ; 



Two small and beautifully-formed nests of a Wasp (Isch- 

 nogaster) from North Borneo, suspended from roots projecting 

 from a river-bank ; 



Specimens representing the metamorphoses of the common 

 Blood-worm Fly (Chironoinus). 



To the models illustrating the life-histories of injurious and 

 other Insects, the following have been added : — 



Rose, showing the injury and disfigurement caused by a 

 leaf -cutting Bee (Megachile willughbiella) ; Cherry, showing 

 the injury produced by Slug-worms, the larvae of a Saw-fly 

 {Blennocampa cerasi) ; Red-currant, showing the terminal 



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