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ENTOMOLOGICAL P^XIIU'.IT. 



Pinned 

 specimeas. 



VialB. 



Drawings 



Illinois insects injurious to the apple 



Illinois insects injurious to corn 



Illinois insects injurious to wheat 



Illinois insects injurious to the strawberry 



Insects in the food of birds 



Insects in the food of liahes 



Geoj;r!ii)hictil distriljution of Illinois butterllies 



Illinois insects as furnished to high schools of Illinois 

 Common insects of Illinois — 



Dermaptera 



Orthoptera 



Platyptera 



Odouata 



Plectoptera 



Ilemiptera 



>reiiroptera 



Alecoptera 



Trichoptera 



Coleoptera 



Diptera 



Lepidoptera ' 



Hy menoptera 



Totals 



340 

 150 

 53 

 52 

 195 

 91 

 1«4 

 459 



4 



215 



12 



73 



8 



56fi 



20 



4 



3 



2,662 



541 



1,058 



1,016 



106 

 85 

 43 

 20 

 24 

 9 



r,606 



287 



111 addition to the above, there were exhibited about 3,000 specimens 

 of lepidojjtera and coleoptera. twenty boxes each, from the standard col- 

 lection of the State Laboratory, and twenty-four racks of vials (about 

 500) of alcoholic specimens. 



The special exhibit of the food of one robin for one year consisted of 

 5,481 pinned specimens of insects, eig'hty tubes, each fifteen inches in 

 length, containing alcoholic specimens, besides vials and tubes containing 

 fruit and seeds. 



The total number of separate objects shown in these collections was 

 18,550. 



The furniture of the entomologist's office comprised two office desks, 

 four plain work tables, three tables with specimen cases, a table for 

 reference books and record books, two small cases for specimens, a large 

 bookcase, two reagent cases, a type-writing machine and desk, a letter- 

 press and stand, a small printing-press and case of type, a sink, and 

 some chairs. 



In the bookcase was placed a section of the library of the State 

 Laboratory of Natural History, the books selected being mainly ento- 

 mological, and including serial publications, periodicals, monograplis, ref- 

 erence books, pamphlets, etc.. to the number of about five hundred 

 volumes. A complete set of the publications of the State entomological 

 reports was also displayed on one of the office tables. 



Under the head of working apparatus, there were shown in this room 

 one compound microscope and accessories, two dissecting microscopes and 

 accessories, two large microtomes, a complete outfit for collecting insects, 

 sets of bottles, vials, and reagents tor preserving insects, an apparatus 

 for inflating larva', and that used in mounting and preserving insects. 



In the insectary. adjoining the office room, were sixty large and small 

 breeding cages with glass fronts and gauze sides: forty glass jars of vari- 

 ous sizes and shapes, to be used as breeding cages: and two gauze-covered 

 cages suitable for outdoor use. These were arranged on shelves and on 

 a table covered with sand. There were also in this room a work table 

 with an Arnold steam sterilizer, large culture jars and funnels, and other 

 apparatus used in the culture of fungi causing insect disease. 



