598 Zoology. 



Walker (Francis). [1809-1874] 



Besides the specimens described by this author in the Museum Cata- 

 logues, there are in the Museum :— 



(1.) The Ceylonese Coleoptera diagnosed by him in the Annals and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., II., 1858, pp. 202, 280; III., 1859, pp. 50, 258; IV., 

 1859 pp. 217-220. Orthoptera in IV., 1859, p. 220 ; Hymenoptera in 

 IV., 1859, p. 370; V., 1860, p. 304 ; VI., 1860, p. 357. 



The majority tf these are at present in a separate drawer, but some 

 have been already incorporated in the general collection. 



(2.) The insects from British Columbia collected by J. K. Lord during 

 the Boundary Commission. They are chiefly Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera. They were enumerated and the new species described in 

 J. K. Lord's "The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia," 

 1866. 



The specimens are incorporated in the general collection. 



(3.) The Diptera described in " Insecta Britannica," Diptera, vol. III., 

 Culicidas, &c. 



These specimens are for the present kept together in a separate 

 drawer. 



(4.) Walker presented to the Museum from time to time specimens of 

 Chalcididx described by him. They are incorporated in the general 

 collection. 



The type specimens of Moths described by Walker in Parts 27 to 30 

 and the corresponding Supplement of the Museum Catalogue as being in 

 the collection of W. W. Saunders, were purchased by the Museum in 1894. 

 Also the types of the species from Congo described in Dr. Chapman's 

 paner on the Insects of Congo (Proc. N. Hist, Soc. Glasgow, i., p. 325, 

 1869), purchased in 1887. 



The other types of Lepidoptera described as being in the Saunders' 

 Collection are in the Oxford Museum, as also are most of those described 

 in Fry's Collection ; the types of Birchall Collection from Bogota are with 

 Mr. H. Druce ; some of the types from Canada are at Ontario, Canada ; 

 some from Bengal are in the Devon and Exeter Museum, and some from 

 Australia are at Melbourne. 



The types from Ceylon described in F. L Layard's Collection are lost, 

 also those from South Africa described as in D'Urban's Collection and 

 those from the Bed Sea in J. K. Lord's Collection. 

 See also W. W. Saunders, and T. Norris, 



Wallace (Alfred Russell). [1823- ] 

 See Edwin Brown, and W. C. Hewitson. 



Walsingham (Lord). [1843- ] 



The types of Tineidaj, &c.., described by Lord Walsingham in Moore's 

 " Lepidoptera of Ceylon," are in the Museum ; also the types of N. American 

 Tortricida? described in 111. Het. B.M. Pt. IV. 



See Christmas Island, Sokotra, and West Indies. 



Walton (John). [1784-1862] 



In 1859 Walton presented to the Museum a number of rare and also 

 several (then) unique specimens of British Curculionida> ; and in 1863, 



