Il8 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Coleoptera 



Berosus subsignatus Lee, Psyllobora taedata Lee. 

 Conotelus stenoides Murr. , Scaptolenus lecontei 

 Salle, Photinus benignus Lee, Lobetus abdoniinalis 

 Lee. 



Diptera 



Beskia aelops Walk., Sturmia distineta Wied., Sareo- 

 phaga assidua Walk., S. quadrisetosa Coq., Pseudopy- 

 rellia eomieina Fabr., Paehyeerina elav.ipennis Coq. 



Lepidoptera 



Chloroehlamys phyllinaria Zell. , Loxostege manca- 

 li s Led., Lineodes Integra Zell., Crambus teterrellus 

 Zink., C. mutabilis Clem., Saluria tetradella Zell., P t e r o - 

 phorus inquinatus Zell. , Platynota nigroeervina 

 Wals., Anaphora popeanella Clem. 



PURCHASE 



House fly, Museadomestiea Linn, (x 30), model 



Malarial mosquito, Anopheles, disseetible model of head, (x 800) 



House mosquito, Culex pipiens Linn., disseetible model of head, 



(x 800) 

 The above from The Kny-Scheerer Co., New York eity 



INSECT COLLECTIONS 



Summary statement 



The total number of insect specimens in the collections ap- 

 proximates 150,000 distributed about as follows: 



Orthoptera i 770 Lepidoptera 31 624 



Odonata 987 Diptera 24953 



Neuroptera i 001 Coleoptera 40 267 



Hemiptera 12 113 Hymenoptera n 9^7 



The alcoholic material belonging in various groups amounts 

 to some 25,000 specimens. 



The Hill collection, included in the above estimate, comprises 

 some 10,000 specimens of Lepidoptera. 



The Lintner collection, also included in the above enumera- 

 tion, comprises some 19,228 specimens, distributed as follows: 

 Orthoptera 91; Odonata 241; Neuroptera 230; Hemiptera 1377; 

 Lepidoptera 10,182; Diptera 978; Coleoptera 5002; Hymenoptera 

 IT 26. 



There are on exhibition some 5746 specimens, distributed as 

 follows: Orthoptera 146; Odonata 31; Neuroptera 43; Hemip- 



