REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 215 



Department of Inseets. 

 C. V. lliLEY, Honorary Curator. 



Accession No. 



10807. Alaus myops^ sent by John Dennett, Mobile, Ala 



10854. Lhnnophilus sp., sent by J. Sharp ±^ixou, Chambersburg, Pa. 



11110. Three boxes with Coleoptera; one bottle with miscellaneous in- 

 sects in alcohol; sent by C. J. Hering from Surinam. 



11113. Six boxes with Mexican Coleoptera, with list of names, from Prof. 

 Eugenio Duges, Guanajuato, Mexico. 



11098. Various hymenopterous insects, from W. A. Williamson, Toronto, 

 Canada. 



11229. Eggs of lacewing fly, from Joseph Schanno, Yakima, Wash. 



11267. Specimens never received, but were doubtless a species of black- 

 fly, from M. H. Thomson, Pecan Point, Ark. 



11325. Dynastes tityus, sent by Geo. H. McKiuney, Stanford, Ky. 



11439. Smerinthus modestus, from L. Belding, Stockton, Cal. 



11577. Lucanus elaphus, sent by J. H. Turner, Jonesville, Tex. 



11600. Fapilio turnns and Bcinais archippus, from T. S. Wilcox, Boise 

 Barracks, Idaho. 



11661. Scorpio allenii, from T. S. Wilcox, Boise Barracks, Idaho. 



11087. Galeodes sp., from E. C. Bradstreet,-Greeley, Colo. 



11786. Dynastes tityus, from Messrs. Hall M. Caldwell and Andrew D. 

 Cowles, Statesville, N. C. 



11798. Chrysalis of a noctuid moth, from J. S. F. Batchen, Chicago, 111. 



11841. Callidryas siihule, from Thos. S. Dorau, Montgomery, Ala. 



11843. Rhyssa lunafor, from F. O. Miner & Co., New Orleans, La. 



11848. Papilio rutilus, from C. A. Williams, Fort Lapwai, Idaho. 



11850. Larva of Eacles imperiales, from W. W. Karr, Washington, D. C. 



11871. Larva of Olketicus sp., Irom J. C. Wells, Grenada, W. T. 



11877. Citheronia rcgaliSj from J. F. Lewis, Quinnimont, W. Va. 



11910. Eighteen boxes with innned Lepidoptera. Source not indicated. 



11931. Lucilia macellaria, from Dr. Fred. Hambert, Alton, 111. 



11960. Pupa of Fapilio troilus, from the U. S. Signal OfiQcer, Fort Myer, 

 Virginia. 



11960 [bis]. Belostoma grande^ from C. T. Davis, Nevada, Mo. 



11988. Larva of Umpretia stiinulea, from James W. Eogan, Eogersville, 

 Teun. 



120G3. Gasterocantha cancer. Source not indicated. 



Without accession number, a very interesting collection, by Mr. L. M. 



Turner, from the Aleutian Islands, and a series of miscellaneous speci- 

 mens lately collected during the winter at New Orleans, La., by Dr. R. 



W. Shufeldt. 

 Most of the si)ecimens above enumerated were received in such poor 



condition as to be untit for i)reservation. It will also be noticed that 



most of them are quite common species. The chief contribution is that 



