X.-REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF IN- 

 SECTS IN THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR 1884. 



By C. V. TJiLKY. Honorary Curator. 



The following list of accessions, arranged according to accession 

 numbers, will indicate in a ])recise manner tlie cliaracter of the addi- 

 tions to the collection : 

 No. 137L'4. Large collection of insects of various orders collected iu 



Labrador, sent by Mr. L. M. Turner, Washington, D. C. 

 No. 1384C. Collection of various insects from Norfolk Lsland, sent by 



Mr. P. Herbert Metcalfe, Norfolk Island. 

 No. 13D16. Various species of insects from Washington Territory, sent 



by Capt. Charles Bendire, Fort Klamath, Wash. 

 No. 13917. Various species from California, sent by Mr. Charles H. 



Townseud, Baird, Shasta County, California. 

 No. 13972. Achorutes sp. (Snow Podura) from New Jersey, sent by Mr. 



John J. Willis, Westfield, N. J. 

 No. 14004. White-grub fungus {Cordyceps raveneli) from Arkansas, sent 



by Mr. G. H. Horn, Liberty Springs, Van Buren County, Arkansas. 

 No. 14053. Tarentula hentzii and tScolopendra heros from Kansas, sent 



by the Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 

 No. 14058. Periplanefa americana found on board of a whale ship, sent 



by Mr. Daniel Kelleher, New Bedford, Mass. 

 No. 140G5. Ephemerid larva from Texas, sent by Mr. C. C. Bearden, 



Bedford, Tex. 

 No. 14150. Various insects and insect larvae from Paramaribo, Surinam, 



sent by Mr. C. J. Hering, Paramaribo, Surinam. 

 No. 14166. Clover-hay Worm [Asirpia costalis) from Virginia, sent by 



Mr. R. H. Downman, Warrenlon, Va. 

 No. 14204. Bag-worm {Thyridopteryx ^\).) from Arkansas, sent by Mr. 



Michael T. Omally, Hot Springs, Ark. 

 No. 14269. Periplanc'ta americana from Saint Mary's River, Florida, sent 



by U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk. 

 No. 14298. Achomtea sp. (Snow Podura) from Colorado, sent by Mr. H. 



C. Lay, jr., Telluride, Colo. 

 No. 14325. Box of Coleoptera for determination, sent by Mr. F. Wilkin- 

 son, jr., Mansfield, Ohio. (Returned to sender at his request). 



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