ACCOUNTS, &;c., OF THE BRITISH Ml'SKUM. 



61 



10. A collection of two thousand tive hundred and lifty-eight marine Shells from 

 St. Helena, including two hundred and seventy species, of which about one hundred 

 are new to science. The importance of this acquisition will be undei-stood from the 

 fact that only forty or tifty species had previously been recorded from the island ; 

 presented by Captain W. H. Turton, h.e. 



11. A valuable collection of eighty specimens of Scorpions, comprising eight species, 

 of which four are new to the collection, and three (Ifiaraetrus iih'ipmn'i, .shojjlu'adi 

 and (i.ssamensis) are typical examples; also four hundred and fifty specimens of 

 Chilopoda, comprising twenty-liye species, of which ten are new to the collection, and 

 four are undescribed species of Lifhohius, Otost'ujm<( , and Hi niantu rlum, from various 

 parts of Burma ; collected and presented by C. W. Gates, Esq. 



12. A collection of five thousand six hundred and thirty-five Hemiptera, sixty- 

 four Diptera, and one hundred galls formed by Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and ])ip- 

 tera, from Central Europe ; all the specimens determined ; purchased. 



13. A collection of three thousand one hundred and forty-three Coleoptera, six 

 thousand two hundred and forty-,six Diptera, including numerous specimens, either 

 figured or referred to by Curtis in his British Entomology, one thousand four 

 hundred and seven Hymenoptera, one hundred and fifty Lepidoptera, includinu- three 

 examples of the very rare butterfly ChrynopltaneH dispar, sixty-six Neuroptera, "eighty- 

 five Hemiptera, and three Orthoptera, from Great Britain ; collected and presented by 

 W. Clifton, Esq. 



14. A valuable collection of upwards of six thousand named British Lepidoptera, 

 including a great many rare varieties ; this collection was formed by the late Mr, 

 William Buckler, well known by his numerous entomological writings, and by his 

 work on the larvse of British butterfles and moths ; presented by Robert Newbury, 

 Esq. 



1.5. A selected series of one thousand Lepidoptera, two hundred and fifty Coleoptera, 

 twenty-five Neuroptera, twenty Hemiptera, thirteen Hymenoptera, six Orthojitera, 

 and three Diptera, from Bogota ; collected and presented by Sor Jose Maria Vargas 

 Vergara, F.z.s. 



16. A collection of three hundred and ninety-one Butterflies, and two thousand 

 and twenty-seven Moths, representing nine hundred and eighty-nine species, of 

 which about three hundred are new to science ; collected by G. F. Hampson, Esq., 

 in the Nilgiris. This is one of the most impoi'tant additions to our knowledge of the 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of India received in recent years ; purchased. 



17. A collection of two thousand four hundred named Moths, collected principally 

 in New South Wales, by Dr. G. H. Raynor ; purchased. 



Mavi'nialia. — The additions to this class during the past year were three hundred 

 and sixty-six, of which the following are the most important : — 



Six human Skulls and Skeletons from the Sandwich Islands ; presented by Mrs. 

 Lambert. 



Eleven skulls of Egyptian Mummies ; presented by W. H. Flindei-s Petrie, Esq. 



The skull of a Patagonian ; presented by Roland Ward, Esq. 



The skeleton of a bottle-nosed Whale (Hyperoodon rostnttus) ; purchased. 



The skeleton of an Elk (Alces maehlis); purchased. 



The skeleton of a new Mungoose (Herpastes (jr(indiii) ; received in exchange from 

 the Cambridge Museum. 



The skeleton of a Rocky-Mountain Goat (/r«^j?oce;'os mowiawtcs), from Montana j 

 presented by Sir E. G. Loder, Bart. 



Three specimens and a .skeleton of Marco Polo's Sheep {Ovis poll), and four 

 Marmots (Arctomys caudatus), from the Pamir ; presented by St. George Littledale, 



Esq. 



The horn of an extinct and probably undescribed Stag from Asia Minor; presented 



by C. G. Danford, Esq. 

 ' Eighteen pairs of Horns, mostly Indian ; presented by Colonel John Evans. 



Five pairs of Antelope Horns from South Africa, including the type of a remarkable 

 new species {Antilope triangularis) ; purchased. 



Thirteen small Mammals fi-om various localities; presented by the Marquis G. 



Doria. 



Fourteen Mammals from Baram, N. Borneo, including the type of a Monkey, 

 described as new (Semnopifhecus hosH) ; collected by Charles Hose, Escj. 



A specimen of a Dolphin {Neomeris phoeoenoides) from Bombay Harbour ; presented 



by W. T. Sinclair, Esq. 



Three small Mammals from Angola, being co-types of species described by the donor; 



presented by Professor Barboza du Bocage. 



Fifteen small Mammals from the (iambia, including the types of two now Bats ; 



purchased. 



Q 74 H .S Eighteen 



