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feborine Rich., var, viridans Gr., near S^yracuse, N. Y. Dr. Thos. 

 Lancaster : Poli/porus, growing on Hemlock Spruce, McKean 

 Co., Pa. Wm. H. Dougherty : Skeleton of stem of Opuntia im- 

 hricata; Capsule of Hanhuria; Stems of Euj^horbia anfis{/j:)hiUtica, 

 all from Chihuahua, Mexico. Aubrey H. Smith : MijoHotw versi- 

 color, Pers., Cobb's Creek, Darby, Pa. Thomas Bland, N. York : 

 Wax, from the leaves of the Carnauba Palm ( Copernicia ceriferay, 



Whip from the bark of , Jamaica ; Paper from the fibre of 



Plantain and Banana, Jamaica; llyri.stica fra grans, Houtt., Nut- 

 meg with its Mace and outer husk, Jamaica ; Seeds of the follow- 

 ing plants from West Indies : Lucuma mammosa, Gris., Feuillea 

 cordifolia, Ser., Coix lachryma, L., Sajnndus sajwnaria, L., 

 Adenanthera paronina, L., Abi^us precatorius, L., GuUandina 

 Bonduc, L., Anacardium occidentale, L., GuUandina BonduceUa, 

 li. ; Wood of the Down tree {Ochroma Lagopus). Thos. Meehan : 

 Pellaea at ropurpurea^ Link., collected in Southern Utah, by A. 

 L. Siler ; Sedum Meehani, Gra}^ collected in Southern Utah, by 

 A. D. Siler. Isaac Burk : Wood of Herifiera, Africa. Dr. A. P. 

 Garber: 95 species of plants, collected by him at Yaueo, Porto 

 Rico, in 1880, named by' Dr. Gray and Mr. Oliver of Kentucky. 

 John H. Redfield : 217 species plants collected by Dr. C. C. Parry 

 and Dr. E. Palmer, near San Luis Potosi, Mexico, named at Kew 

 and Cambridge ; 57 species Ferns, collected by A. Fendler, in the 

 Island of Trinidad, W. I., in 1879-80, supplementary to a collec- 

 tion presented in 1878, named by Prof. D. C. Eaton; 7 species 

 plants from Florida and Tropical America. J. H. Redfield, J. C. 

 Martindale. Thos. Meehan, Wm. M. Canby, Dr. Chas. E. Schaffer, 

 Dr. J. Bernard Brinton : Complete set of the Mosses and Ilepaticifi 

 of N. America, collected and named by the late Coe F. Austin, 

 consisting of 518 species of Mosses and 124 species of Hepaticae. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Tiie Entomological Section, throughout the past j-ear has held 

 its regular meetings, excepting during the months of July and 

 August. Most of the meetings have been quite interesting, owing 

 to the man}' original communications, both verbal and v/ritten, 

 that have been presented. These lectures, as they may be called, 

 were devoted to illustrating some of the variations of form, etc., 

 of many entomological species and genera. At the same time 

 opportunity has been aff"orded to those so desiring, to describe 

 new species of the entomological fauna, and to present their ob- 

 servations to the public. That the claims of priority of description 

 thus made, might not be lost by the several authors, such com- 

 munications have been condensed and published in the Proceedings 

 of the Section. The more full and complete papers are, as hereto- 



