118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



One hundred and forty-two Spiders, principally from 

 Celebes and Gilolo, including the typical examples of sixteen 

 new species, established by Messrs. F. 0. P. Cambridge, and 

 R. I. Pocock ; presented by Dr. W. Kiikenthal. 



Ninety-eight Spiders and Scorpions collected by S. S. 

 Flower, Esq., in Siam, Johore, and Borneo, including specimens 

 of Falaonnceus silenus, new to the collection, and of Oncopus 

 alticeps and Heteropocla floiueri, new to science ; received in 

 exchange from the Royal Museum, Bangkok. 



Four hundred and ninety Spiders from St. Vincent, West 

 Indies, representing eighty-six species, mostly new to the 

 collection ; presented by the West Indies Exploration Com- 

 mittee. 



Insecta. — The total number of specimens acquired during 

 the year has amounted to forty-four thousand and sixty-nine 

 They are distributed as follows : — 



Coleoptera ------- 24,141 



Orthoptera ------- 624 



Neuroptera ------- 226 



Lepidoptera 15,080 



Hymenoptera ------ 883 



Diptera - - - 2,059 



Rhynchota ------- 973 



Aptera -_---__ 35 



Nests, economic specimens, etc. - - - 48 



Total - - - 44,069 



The most important of these are : — 



(From Great Britain.) 



One thousand and eighty Diptera, including three hundred 

 Borhoridce, from Felden, Tring, and Leighton ; collected, 

 carefully mounted, and mostly named, by the donor. A, 

 Piffard, Esq. 



Three hundred and forty Diptera from the New Forest, the 

 ^Forest of Dean, Hereford, etc. ; presented by Lieut. -Col. 

 Yerbury. 



Ten specimens of the Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with a 

 series of its larvae, cocoons, etc., from Kew Gardens ; presented 

 by F. Escombe, Esq. 



Three larvae of Agdistes, from Essex ; presented by Lord 

 Walsingham. 



A book, with the cells of a bee (Osmia), bailt against the 

 edges, from Hawkhurst, Kent; presented by Miss Evelyn 

 Hardcastle. 



A melanic variety of a moth (Catocala nuijta), from 

 Wandsworth Common ; presented by James Chapman, Esq. 



