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Islands ; and twenty-three Orthopiera, twenty- five Rhyn- 

 cliota, six hundred and fifty Hymenopteva, and one hundred 

 and fifty-two Coleoptera. from Andaman Islands and Nar- 

 condam Island ; presented by Gilbert Rogers, Esq. 



(From America.) 

 Nine hundred and forty-one Central American Scolytidce, 

 worked out and described by Mr. W. F. Blandford ; and 

 two hundred and fourteen Clavicorn Coleoptera, worked 

 out and described by Dr. D. Sharp ; presented by F. D. 

 Godman, Esq., d.c.l., f.r.s. 



Twenty Butterflies, three hundred and fifty-three Moths 

 from Trinidad ; and three Butterflies, two hundred and two 

 Moths from Venezuela ; presented by W. T. Kaye, Esq. 



Two hundred and twenty-two Moths, and two Pupse from 

 California ; presented by W. D'Urban, Esq. 



Eighty Butterflies, one hundred and forty-two Coleoptera, 

 ten Hymenoptera, and three Rhynchota from Tierra del 

 Fuego ; presented by Capt. R. Crawshay. 



Echinoderma. — The accessions were remarkably scanty — 

 being only eighteen ; and none were of special interest. 



Vermies. — Here again the accessions were only seventy- 

 five, but the majority are of great interest, being the 

 Chsetognaths of the Siboga and Challenger Voyages, which 

 have been determined by Dr. G. Herbert Fowler. 



AntJwzoa. — The accessions were five hundred and thirty- 

 four, and consisted mainly of microscopic preparations made 

 by Dr. Fowler in the course of his well-known investigations 

 into the morphology of Corals, and are obviously of great 

 value. 



Porifera. — Of the thiee hundred and fifty-three acqui- 

 sitions the most interesting are : — 



A collection of fourteen specimens of fresh-water Sponges 

 from the Victoria Nyanza and Lakes Tanganyika and 

 Nyasa, collected by Dr. W. A. Cunnington in the course 

 of the Third Tanganyika Expedition ; presented by the 

 Tanganyika Exploration Committee. 



A very valuable set of collections of Calcareous Sponges 

 from various localities, comprising numerous specimens 

 described and figured by E. A. Minchin ; also spicule- 

 drawings of the above specimens and micro-preparations. 

 The total number of specimens and preparations is one 

 hundred and forty-eight ; presented by Prof. E. A. Minchin. 



An example of the gigantic "pfahl-nadel " or pile needle 

 of Monorhaphis chuni, Schulze, an Hexactinellid Sponge. 



The needle is 41 inches in length, being the longest known. 



It was obtained from 160 fathoms from the channel 

 between Dar-es-splam and Zanzibar, and came up entangled 



