126 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



America. 



Twenty baroques or hinge pearls from North American 

 Unionidse ; presented by E. Hopkins, Esq. 



Four hundred and thirty land, freshwater and marine shells 

 from the Bahama Islands ; presented by CJ. W. Branch, Esq. 



Australasia. 



One hundred and twenty-four marine shells from Masthead 

 Islands, Queensland ; presented by C. Hedley, Esq. 



Forty-tAvo land shells from Bougainville Island, Solomon 

 group ; purchased. 



Fifty-eight marine shells from New Zealand, including 

 twenty-two species new to the collection ; presented by 

 H. Suter, Esq. 



Insecta. — Eighty-six thousand five hundred and seventy- 

 one specimens have been added to this part of the collection 

 during the year, composed as follows : — 



Coleoptera ------- 65,344 



Lepidoptera ------- 9,145 



Hymenoptera ------- 4,315 



Diptera - ^ ----- - 4,318 



Rhynchota - - - - . - - - 2,041 



Orthoptera ------- 1,094 



Neuroptera ------- 279 



Nests, eggs, &c. ------ 35 



Total - - - - 86,571 



The following are some of the most important of these 

 accessions : — 



From various Localities. 



The 3rd and 4th instalments of the David Sharp Collection 

 of Coleoptera, containing about 30,000 Staphylinidce, including 

 about 2,000 types ; and about 20,000 Coleoptera from New 

 Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands, about 400 of which are 

 types. 



Two hundred and seventy-three Papilionidce from the 

 Holarctic Region ; presented by H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S. 



One hundi-ed and six Coleoptera, chiefly types of Herr H. 

 Wagner ; six thousand six hundred Coleoptera, five hundred 

 and forty-five Lepidoptera, five hundred Rhynchota, four 

 hundred Hymenoptera, and one hundred Diptera from Southern 

 Africa ; twenty-one Coleoptera from India, including many 

 types ; and three hundred and fifty-seven Coleoptera from 

 N. America ; presented by Guy A. K. Marshall, Esq. 



Ninety-three Microlepidoptera ; one hundred and fifty-nine 

 Diptera and six Hymenoptera from the South of France ; and 

 sixty-three Diptera from Algeria ; presented by the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, m.p. 



