120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(From the West Indies.) 



A collection of two thousand seven hundred and sixteen 

 insects, including Solenoptera canaliculata, JSburia insu- 

 lana, Harus'pex inscriptus, Pentomaci-us fasclatus, Teth- 

 I'hiiTnena hasalis and Decarthria albofasciata, collected 

 chiefly at Grenada and St. Vincent ; presented by the West 

 Indian Exploration Committee. 



Twenty-eight Odonata and four Heterocera, including a 

 rare Noctuid (Orcesia sp.), from Jamaica; presented by Lady 

 Blake. 



Three Diptera, including the type of Cutitevehva funehris, 

 from Trinidad ; presented by J. H. Hart, Esq. 



(From South America.) 



Four Coleoptera, including the type of a new genus 

 Charaymophorus, and three Odonata larvae, collected at 

 Mt. Roraima at an elevation of 8,500 feet ; presented by J. 

 J. Quelch and F. McConnell, Esqrs. 



Ten Moths, including specimens of Histioia meldolce, 

 Histicea hellatrix, and four Cossidoe, from Venezuela ; pre- 

 sented by W. Schaus, Esq. 



Sixteen specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera, eight of them 

 being types of new species collected in Brazil ; presented by 

 W. Schaus, Esq. 



Fifteen Crambince, containing thirteen types of new 

 spp. from the Neotropical Region, and tw^o specimens of 

 Apatelodes parvula from Parana ; presented by W. Schaus, 

 Esq. 



One hundred and nineteen Heterocera and one Orthop- 

 teron from Buenos Ayres ; presented by J. H. Leech, Esq. 



(From Africa.) 



One hundred and fourteen insects of various orders, col- 

 lected in Algeria ; presented by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. 



Three hundred and eighty-one insects of various orders 

 from Madeira, Canary, and Salvage Islands ; presented by 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Esq. 



One nest of Ants with twenty-live specimens of the Ant 

 {(Ecophylla vii-escens, var. ?), from Sierra Leone ; presented 

 by Major C. B Lyster, through Sir John Lubbock, Bart. 



Forty specimens of Coleoptera and eleven of Lepidoptera, 

 from Accra ; presented by G. A. Higlett, Esq. 



A series of four hundred and eighty-two insects from Old 

 Calabar, comprising Eudema conicus, Macrochilus grandis, 

 Taurina niroeus and Stenanorrhina guttata ; presented by 

 Miss Kingsley. 



One hundred and seven Lepidoptera, including Acrcva 

 oAlniatha, Crenis amulia, Euchromia splendens, Girpa sp., 

 and Ophisma izea, collected at Old Calabar by J. T. Steadley, 

 Esq. ; presented by J. E. Harting, Esq. 



Twenty-five 



