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displayed in several boxes of Cecidomyia and allied genera, which had 

 been carded and studied with great care, but which we found nearly 

 destroyed by the little Ptinus fur. 



A few hundred interesting and chiefly minute specimens from Hong 

 Kong, collected by the late Rev. M. S. Culbertson, and a goodly number 

 of larger forms from South America, sent him by Sr. A. de Lacerda, had 

 apparently never been incorporated with the general collection. 



The Catalogue, descriptive, and apparently nearly exhaustive, at least 

 as regards the New York species, is a library of itself in one hundred and 

 forty-eight note books 10 x 16 cm. (if my memory serves me), and none 

 much less than an hundred pages, in which each specimen is numbered 

 (beginning in 1833), with its locality, date of capture and incidents, 

 accompanied in general with a preliminary brief diagnosis, and followed 

 by a fuller description. As previously stated, the numbers of specimens 

 reach fifty-five thousand, though many have doubtless been exchanged or 

 destroyed. 



A large and valuable library containing many rare and curious works 

 on Entomology in various languages, and several microscopes, among 

 them a valuable Nachet made to order for the Doctor, are also stored in 

 the little wooden building called " the office " — a few rods in the rear of 

 the old dwelling-house. And the old shepherd dog that for some years 

 past accompanied the venerable Doctor in his rambles, sleeps nightly on 

 the mat at the entrance of the little " office," guarding the invaluable 

 treasures which he may perhaps have helped to accumulate, while the 

 busy brain and skillful hand of his old friend and companion are never 

 more to acknowledge his faithful service. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF 



ZYGAENID.E. 



BY BERTHOLD NEUMOEGEN, NEW YORK. 



Genus Edwardsia, Neumoegen. 



Head small, nearly concealed by the thorax. Clypeus oblong, toothed 

 in front, the middle tooth much the largest. Palpi moderately long, and 



