Insect a. 



Reiche (L.). 



See Bakewell. 



Ricardo (Miss). 

 See Sokotra. 



Rosenstock (R.). 



The types of Lepidoptera described from Australia. 



Rothschild (Hon. Walter). 



Some types of Sphinyidee described in his Monograph. 



Salvin (Osbert). [1835-1898] 

 See Godman and Salvin. 



Saunders (Edward). 



Mr. Edward Saunders' collection of Buprestidse was purchased by tin- 

 Trustees in 1874. It consisted of 7,267 specimens, 2,97-1 spec • 

 which 364 were original types. Mr. Saunders visited many of the 

 Continental museums, and spared no pains in seeking out original type 

 specimens, with which he compared his own. These specimens are 

 marked " compared with type." 



The specimens are incorporated with the Museum collection, but all 

 bear a ticket with his name. 



Saunders (Sir Sydney Smith). [1809-1884] 



The collection of fig insects formed by Sir S. Saunders, and which was 

 the basis of memoirs by himself and Prof. Westwood in the Transactions of 

 the Entomological Society, was purchased by the Trustees in 1884. 



Saunders (William Wilson). [1809-1879] 



In 1865 W. W. Saunders presented to the Trustees his entire collection 

 of Henri ptera, 3,207 specimens. It was particularly valuable on account 

 of the large series of specimens collected by A. R. Wallace and 11. W. Bat< 5. 



In 1868 he also presented his collections of Xcuroptera, 2,000 

 specimens, and Diptera, 5,000 specimens, containing a considerable 

 number of types described by F. Walker, including the series of B] 

 collected by Wallace in the Malay Archipelago,* and described in the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society, vols. 3, 4, 5, 8 and i> ; and those collected 

 by Bates on the Amazons and described in the Transactions of the. 

 Entomological Society, &c. 



The specimens are incorporated with the general collection, but bear a 

 ticket with his name. 



in 1894 the Tineida; of the Saunders collection including many types 

 described by F. Walker were acquired by purchase. 



Sharp (David). [1840- ] 



See Godman and Salvin, and Hawaiian [slands. 



Sharpe (Miss Emily Mary). 



The types of Lepidoptera described in the collections made bj J. L. 

 Bonhote in the Bahamas, Dr. C.Christy in Nigeria, ami E. S. Grogan in 

 Central Africa. 



* A few of the types from this collection found tin a way int.. thai of the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, and are now in the Oxford Museum. 



