BICENTENARY OF LINN^US 



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a hundred species of Coleoptera, fifty species of Diptera, twenty-eight 

 species of Hymenoptera and sixty-six species of Lepidoptera. 



The New York Entomological Society appreciates this opportunity of 

 paying tribute to the memory of the man through whose wonderful far-sight 

 and scientific attainment we are better able to understand the great system 

 of nature. 



C. W. Leng, President. 



H. G. Barber, Secretary. 



INSECTS DESCRIBED BY LINN^US WHICH ARE KNOWN TO OCCUR 



IN NORTH AilERICA.^ 



Hymenoptera. 



Rhodites rosae 

 Rhyssa persuasoria 

 Chalcis minuta 

 Pteromalus pupamm 

 Formica fusca 



rufa 

 Lasius niger 



Odontomachus hsematodes 

 Tetramorium csespitum 

 Monomorium pharaonis 

 Sphaerophthalma occidentalis 

 Pompilus tropicus 

 Chalybion CEeruleum 

 Sphex ichneumonea 



Sphex permsjdvanica 

 Oxybelus uniglumis 

 Monobia quadridens 

 Polistes canadensis 

 " caroiinus 

 " annula,ris 

 Vespa crabro 



" maculata 



" rufa 



" vulgaris 

 Coslinxyz quadridentata 

 Bombus caroiinus 



" hortorum 

 Apis mellifera 



Lepidoptera. 



Danais plexippus 

 Heliconius charitonius 

 Agraulis vanillse 

 Vanessa antiopa 

 Pyrameis atalanta 

 Victorina steneles 

 Anartia jatrophae 

 Ageronia feronia 

 Diadema misippus 

 Calephelis csenius 

 Leptalis melite 

 Catapsilia eubule 

 philea 



Cosmosoma auge 

 Utetheisa omatrix 

 Phraginatobia fuliginosa 

 Euplexia lucipara 

 Dyptergia scabriuscula 

 Pyriphila pjTamidoide^ 



" tragopoginis 



Perodroma oculta 

 Scoliopterix libatrix 

 Plusia culta 

 Ophiderus matcma 

 Erebus odora 

 Euproctis chrysorrhaea 



' Contributed by the New York Entomological Society, 



