(B.) 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



The following are the contributions that have been made to the 

 Department during the year 1889 : 



In Hymenoptera. 



Cells of the leaf-cutter, Megachile sp., in burrows in black ash from 

 a swamp at Manchester, N. Y. From Dr. Peter Collier, N. Y. 

 St. Agricultural Experiment Station, at Geneva. 



A cluster of Eulophus pupa-cases. From Mrs. E. W. K. Lasell 

 Orange, N. J. 



Semiotellus clisiocampce (Fitch) from cocoons of Clisiocampa sylvatica 

 Harris. From T. E. Cross, Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. 



Larvpe of Harpiphorus varianus Norton, feeding on Cornus stolenifera. 

 A jumping cocoon — unknown. From M. W. Vandekberg, M. D., Fort 

 Edward, N. Y. 



Thalessa lunaior (Fabr.), from a maple. From Clara Williams, 

 Meridian, N. Y. 



In Lepidoptera. 



Sixty-four examjDles of butterflies and two of moths, from South 

 America, viz. :* 



'' The determinations accompanying, have not been verified. 



