- 



- 



- 



1,560 



- 



- 



- 



481 



- 



- 



- 



4,292 



!. 



- 



- 



5,680 



- 



- 



- 



1,737 



- 



- 



- 



3,561 



- 



- 



- 



122 



- 



- 



- 



146 



- 



- 



- 



8 



- 



.- 



- 



323 



- 



- - 



- 



256 



?OTAL 



18,166 



6o ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 



number of Insects acquired during the year amounted to 7,188, which are distributed 

 among the various orders as follows: — 



Coleoptera - - - - 

 Hymenoptera _ - _ 



Lepidoptera - - - - 

 (Walsins'ham Collection of larvae, &c 

 (Walsingham Californian Collection 

 (Hocking Collection 

 Diptera _ - _ _ 



Neuroptera - - - - 

 Thysanura - - - - 

 Orthoptera - - - - 

 Hemiptera . - _ - 



The following additions are especially worthy of note : — 



(From Great Britain.^ 



One hundred and twenty-three Lepidoptera for exhibition ; presented by Mr. E. G. 

 Meek. 



A female example of a rare moth ( Nt/ssia zunaria) from Liverpool ; presented by 

 F. Hoyer, Esq. 



Two pale varieties of the Peppered Moth {Amphidasis hetidaria) from the North of 

 England; presented by J. Thorpe, Esq. 



Several interesting wasp's nests from Gloucestershire ; presented by S. G. Perceval, 

 Esq. 



(From other parts of Europe.) 

 Fifty Coleoptera from Cyprus ; presented by Lord Lilford. 



(From Northern Asia and Japan.) 



Forty-six Neui'optera, 45 Hemiptera, 22 Hymenoptera, and 10 other Insects, chiefly from 

 Japan and the Corea; presented by J. H. Leech, Esq. 



A rare Hawk-moth {Cinngon cmgulatuni) from Yezo ; presented by the Rev. W. 

 Andrews. 



(From North America.) 



Thirteen moths from North and Central America ; presented by Henry Edwards, 



Esq. 



(From South America.) 



Twenty-eight Lepidoptera, chiefly from the Provinces of Tucuman and Cataraarca; 

 presented by Lord Dormer. 



Seventy-six Lepidoptera and six Homoptera from Sta. Catharina, Brazil ; pur- 

 chased. 



Ten butterflies from Ecuador ; presented by E. Whymper, Esq. 



(From Africa.) 



Five hundred Coleoptera, including a new species ( Geinjodonta jacksoni) ; twenty-five 

 Hymenoptera ; ninety-three Lepidoptera, Including the types of nine new species, 

 amongst which Dorato-pteryx plumigei-a and Dianeura jacksoni were of especial interest; 

 twenty Diptera and six Hemiptera from the neighbourhood of Killma-njaro ; collected 

 and presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



Forty-three Orthoptera, three Diptera and a Libelhda, from Delagoa Bay ; pur- 

 cliased. 



Twelve Orthoptera and two Neuroptera from Cape Coast ; presented by G. A. 

 Higlett, Esq. 



A large cluster of cocoons of a moth (Hypsoides bipars), from Madagascar ; pur 

 chased. 



A moth new to the collection {Pilthea trifascinta), from Zanzibar; presented by 

 Miss M. Woodward. 



Two examples of a rare butterfly {Spindasis namaquus), new to the collection, from 

 Namaqua-land ; presented by R. Trimen, Esq., F.K.S. 



One hundred and twenty-one Lepidoptera, Including forty-nine types of species 

 described by the late F. Walker, Esq., principally from the Congo ; purchased. 



A new species of silk-moth {Bunoea, sp.) from Sierra Leone ; presented by C, B. 

 Mitford, Esq. 



Five 



