INSECTS. 



HYMENOPTERA, NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA, DIPTERA, COLEOPTERA, NEUROPTERA, 



AND ARACHNIDA. 



By S. II. SCL'DDER AND OTHERS. 



The insects collected by Mr. Kiimlieii were very few in number, amount- 

 ing to only sixteen species ; and they appear to add little to our pre\ious 

 knowledge of the fauna. Nevertheless, as all lists from high northern 

 localities possess a certain importance, the following is given. The 

 Hymenoptera were determined by Mr. E. T. Cresson ; the report on the 

 Lepidoptera is by Mr. A. K. Grote ; Mr. E. Burgess has named the Dip- 

 tera, Dr. J. L. LeConte the Coleoptera, Dr. H. Hagen the Neuroptera, 

 and Mr. J. H. Emerton the Arachnid. — Samuel H. Scuddee. 



The Diurnal Lepidoptera were placed in thehands of Mr. W. H. Edwards 

 for examination, and appear on pp. 155-157. 



HYMENOPTEEA. 



1. No. 944. Bomhus lacustris Cress. One specimen; American Harbor, 



Gulf of Cumberland, July C, 1878. 



2. No. 1287. Bomhus sp. near B. scutellaris Cress., and probably B. green- 



landicus Smith. One specimen; Godhavn, Greenland, August 3, 



1878. 



3. No. 1431. Limneria sp. (not described). One specimen ; Disko Fjord, 



Disko Island, Greenland, August 9, 1878. 



NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



4. Laiia Bossii Curtis, Appendix to the Second Voyage of Sir J. Ross, 



Ixi, PL A, fig. 10. 

 The specimens belonging to this species are (1) a, dried larva, black, 

 with yellowish brown hairs, and on each side a row of yellow tufts, arcti- 

 iform ; (2) a slight cocoon formed of the larval hair like those of the 

 genus Orgyia'j (3) a single worn male specimen of the moth. The speci- 

 mens were collected at Annanactook, Cumberland Island, the latter part 



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