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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS, &c. 
(No. xiy.) 
King s College, London. —In the very large collection of objects 
of nature and art, presented to the museum of this institution last 
.year by Her Majesty, and which was collected at Kew for the 
education of the family of King George III,, was a considerable 
collection of insects, made, as it stated, under the direction of 
Sir Joseph Banks, and other naturalists, his friends. Having, on 
the occasion of the opening of this museum, on the 22nd June 
(1843) had an opportunity of examining this collection, I can 
but express the disappointment I felt on not finding therein 
any of those species of insects wdiich Sir Joseph Banks brought 
home from the islands of the Southern Ocean, of which it seemed 
probable that duplicates would have been presented to the cabinet 
of his royal pati'on. The only insects of value which I observed 
on a cursory vievr, are Papilio Cressida, P. Harmonia, the latter in 
fine preservations as is also a specimen of P. Pelaus; several of 
the large species of ASgeria with very hairy hind legs; several 
fine species of Mantis and a large species of Xya. The collection 
was kept in glazed drawers, each insect stuck in a small square 
pasteboard tray, turned upside down, into which some waxen 
secretion had been poured. 
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. —This very interesting and well- 
kept collection has recently received a valuable donation, consisting 
of a cabinet of insects of all orders, from Sylliet or some of the 
adjacent parts of India, in which many of the new and splendid 
species recently described by the Rev. F. W. Hope are comprised. 
It likewise contains several species of Papilio which appeared to 
me, on a casual examination, to be undescribed, as well as a 
specimen of the singular P. Payeni, being, I believe, the only 
specimen of that insect in this country. 
Zoological Society.— The Earl of Derby, President of this 
Society, has I’ecently pi’esented to it a very extensive and valuable 
series of insects, from the hilly and hitherto unknown country in 
the interior of the south of Africa, lying between 25® and 26° S. 
lat., and 27® and 28° E. long., collected by Mr. Burton, as noticed 
