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Mites — Tetranychus telarius (Linn.), infesting a quince orchard, 

 near Geneva, N. Y. From Prof. J. C. Abthuk, State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



Mites — Gamasus sp., infesting a burying beetle, JV^ecrophorua 

 iomentosus Web. From Dr. S. A. Kussell, Albany, N. Y. 



Eggs of a katydid, Mlcrocentrus retlnervis Riley, deposited on a 

 shoot of a peach-tree in Coffey Co., Kansas. From James Bucking- 

 ham, Zanesvillc, Ohio. 



8'doclrepa panioea (Linn.), infesting a package of white carrot 

 seed, in the pupae, and emerging as imagines December 3, at the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. From E. L. Goff, Geneva, 

 N. Y. 



Seven examples of flies (JIuscidcB), found July 21st, dead and 

 closely packed within a stem of red elder, Sambucus inibens^ with- 

 out any visible cavity leading to their location. Apparently Lucilia 

 and Pollenia sp. 



Examples of Macrodactylus siibspinosus (Fabr.) ; Cicindela sex- 

 gutiata Fabr.; Silpha noveboracensis (Forst.); Aphodius jimetarnus 

 (Linn.); Otiorhynchus ligneus Le Conte ; Osmoderma eremicola 

 (Knoch) ; Orthosoma hrunneum (Forst.) ; several species of minute 

 fungus beetles, undetermined. Cimhex Americana Leach ; J)ia- 

 lyheromera femorata (Say), and a number of others, as yet unex- 

 amined insects. 



From Hon. Geobgb W. Clinton, Albany, N.T. 



COLLECTIONS. 



A.bout three weeks in the month of August were devoted to collec- 

 tions in the Adirondack region, at Long lake, in the northern part 

 of Hamilton county. The altitude of the lake is 1632 feet above 

 tide. This elevation is too great to admit of an abundance of insect 

 life, while it fails to reward the collector with the rare forms which 

 are to be met with at higher elevations — at and above 2,500 feet. 

 Yery little is known, as yet, of the insect fauna of this interesting 

 portion of our State. As I have previously written, " The enthusi- 

 asm of the entomologists of an adjoining State has led them to 

 explorations of a peculiarly interesting field lying beyond the limits 

 of their own State — the AVliite Mountains of New Hampshire. 

 For successive years the members of the Cambridge Entomological 

 Club have established a midsummer encampment upon the shipe of 

 Mt. Washington, during which, through their protracted sojourn of 

 weeks, and opportunity tor collecting crepuscular and nocturnal forms, 

 they have been able to enrich their cabinets and those of their corre- 

 spondents with many rare boreal species, to accumulate much valuable 

 biological information, and to present local lists of Lepidoptera, Cole- 

 optera and Orthoptera, which have been received as special contri- 

 butions to science. 



