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Forty-five Myriopoda f rom the Channel Islands; presented 

 by A. S. Hirst, Esq. 



Insecta. — The accessions for the year amounted to eighty- 

 seven thousand eight hundred and seven, distributed in the 

 following manner : — 



Coleoptera - - - - 58,135 



Lepidoptera- - - - - - 21,230 



Rhynchota 1,169 



Diptera 1,664 



Hymenoptera ------ 3,972 



Orthoptera - ^ . - - - - 997 



Neuroptera ------- 384 



AnopJura and Mallophaga - - - - 256 



Total - - - 87,807 



The most important of these are the following : — 



(From various Localities.) 



The second portion of Dr. D. Sharp's collection of 



Coleoptera, amounting to about 50,000 specimens, and in- 



€luding the Clavicornia, Palpicornia, Geodephaga, Lamelli- 



cornia, Longicornia, Heteromera, Phytophaga, fee. ; purchased. 



Three tliousand nine hundred and thirty-six Palsearctic 

 Lycsenidse, five hundred and ninety-two Palfearctic Pyralidse, 

 and twenty-nine Indian and Paljearctic Noctuidse and Zjgse- 

 nidae, chiefly types ; presented by H. J. Elwes, Esq., f.r.s. 



One thousand one hundred and seventy-three Lepidoptera, 

 sixty-one Orthoptera, one hundred and two Diptera, thirty- 

 one Hymenoptera, one hundred and ten Rhynchota, and 

 twenty-five Coleoptera ; presentedby Philip de la Garde, Esq. 



One hundred and three Hymenoptera, chiefly types ; 

 purchased. 



Three hundred and sixty-two Moths, collected by Mr. 

 E. G. B. Meade-Waldo on the cruise of the S.Y. "Valhalla"; 

 presented by the Earl of Crawford, k.g. 



Two hundred and three Coleoptera, chiefly co-types ; 

 received by exchange from the Genoa Civic Museum. 



Six Aspidiotus aurantii from Egypt, and fort}/ -two 

 Coccidce from Kew Gardens ; presented by R. Newstead, Esq. 



(From Great Britain and the Palsearctic Region.) 



One Lestes viridis, a rare British Neuropteron ; presented 

 by E. R. Speyer, Esq. 



One hundred and three specimens of Acalla cristina, 

 including twenty varieties; presented by J. A. Clark, Esq. 



Fifty Diptera, fifty Aphaniptera, thirty specimens of 

 Cimex lectularius, and one hundred Mallophaga from Macin, 

 near Braila, Roumania ; presented by Dr. Ernest Belzoni, 

 H.B.M. Vice- Consul. 



