136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Twenty-six marine Decapoda and Amphipoda from 

 Jamaica ; collected by Mr. C. A. Wray for the Museum. 



Two specimens of a new species of River-Crab (Paratel- 

 phusa spinescens) from Yunnan ; purchased. 



Eighteen Phyllopoda and two Decapoda from South 

 Australia ; presented by H. J. Hillier, Esq. 



Nine Crayfish from Ireland ; presented by E. W. L. 

 Holt, Esq. 



Eighty Decapoda from Singapore and Malacca ; presented 

 by W. F. Lanchester, Esq., b.a. 



Ten Decapoda from Great Natuna ; presented by the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, m.p. 



Nineteen Fresh-water Decapoda from British Guiana ; 

 presented by Dr. C. Bovallius. 



Six Decapoda from the Blue Nile, including one species 

 new to the collection ; presented by Capt. Stanley Flower. 



Thirty-nine Cumacea from the ''Siboga" Expedition, 

 including co-types of five new species ; presented by Prof. 

 Max Weber. 



Arachnida and Myriopoda. — The accessions numbered 

 five thousand two hundred and eighteen, of which the most 

 important were : — 



Three thousand eight hundred and eleven Spiders and 

 Harvest-Spiders from Central America, including types of all 

 the species described in the " Biologia Centrali-Americana" ; 

 presented by F. D. Godman, Esq. 



Eighteen Arachnida and Myriopoda from the Upper 

 Amazons ; presented by M. Eugene Robuchon. 



Nine Hundred Arachnida and Myriopoda, chiefly from 

 South America ; purchased. 



Ninety-five Arachnida and Myriopoda from Cape Colony ; 

 purchased. 



Fifteen Pseudoscorpions from Scotland ; presented by 

 Robert Godfrey, Esq. 



Eighteen Scorpions, Spiders and Centipedes from West 

 Australia ; presented by Dr. W. H. Ince. 



Forty-two Arachnida and Myriopoda from Cocos Keeling 

 Island ; presented by F. Wood-Jones, Esq. 



Insecta. — The accessions for the year amounted to two 

 hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy, 

 distributed in the following manner : — 



Coleoptera ----.-- 186,038 



Lepidoptera- - 20,099 



Rhynchota ----- ^ ^ 1,626 

 Diptera -___.-- 3,598 



Hymenoptera ------ 1,611 



Orthoptera 788 



Neuroptera ------- 499 



Thysanura and Collembola - - - - 74 



Nests, &c. 37 



Total - - - 214,370 



