380 Forty-fourth Report on the State Museum 



Coccus on Peach Trees — Lecanium Persicae. (Country Gentle- 

 man, for November 6, 1879, xliv, p. 711, c. 4 — 8 cm.) 



The coccus insect noticed in the Country Gentleman of October 23d, is 

 the above-named species, as determined by Mr. E. A. Sohwarz, who also 

 sends its synonymy. How the examples received differed from Dr. 

 Fitch's description of L. persicce. 



The Fitch Biological Collection of the N. Y. State Agricultural 

 Society. (Psyche, September — December, 1879, ii, pp. 275, 276.) 



The collection, arranged in six table-cases, is as follows : Case 1. Insects 

 infesting grain and other crops ; Case 2. Grass insects ; Case 3. Insects of 

 the garden ; Cases 4 and 5. Insects infesting fruit-trees ; Case 6. Insects 

 injurious to men and animals. The number of specimens in these cases 

 is about sixteen hundred. The labeling is that of Dr. Fitch, except of a 

 few specimens subsequently added. The larger biological specimens are 

 in wall-cases on an upper floor of the Museum. Notice of a collection 

 placed in the State Museum, and of the Homoptera contained therein 

 which have alone escaped destruction. 



