(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. Fi'om 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. 



LarvfB of Harpiphorus varianus Norton, feeding on Cornus stolenifera. 

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

 Edward, N. Y. 



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

 Meridian, N. Y. 



In Lepidoptera. 



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

 America, viz.:* 



* The determinations accompanying, have not been verified. 



