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Collections. 



The collections made during the year have not been large. The ap- 

 propriation by the Legislature for traveling and other expenses of the 

 office commenced only on October ist ; other duties of the office, of 

 greater importance at the present, occupied most of my time. No 

 special excursions for collecting purposes have therefore been made. 

 Quite an amount of material has, however, been obtained in the course 

 of my studies and during a two weeks' vacation among the Catskills, in 

 Palenville and the Kaaterskill Clove. The following is the enumeration 

 in the several orders. Number of specimens mounted : 



Hymenoptera 53 



Lepidoptera 48 



Diptera 49 



Coleoptera 326 



Hemiptera 157 



Orthoptera 11 



Neuroptera , . 8 



Biological in 



Of unmounted specimens there are : 



Hymenoptera 220 



Coleoptera 777 



Biological . about 600 



Making a total of specimens 2 , 360 



Contributions. 

 The following contributions have been made to the department : 



Monohammus confusor Kirby : five examples, collected at Sodus Bay, 

 N. Y. By Mrs. M. A. B. Kelly, Albany, N. Y. 



The same, one example. By A. C Nellis & Co., Canajoharie. N. Y. 



The same. By John Chester, Albany, N. Y. 



Hydrophilus triangularis (Say). By Dudley W. DeWitt, Albany, 

 N. Y. 



Coptocycla aurichalcea (Fabr.), taken upon Calystegia sepium. By 

 Hon. G. W. Clinton, Albany, N. Y. - 



Hibernated elm-tree leaf -beetles, Galerucella xanthomelama Schr., 

 April 28th; eggs of the same, on elm leaves, June 2d ; larvae and pupae 

 of the same, July 9th. By James Angus, West Farms, N. Y. 



Phytonomus punctatus (Fabr.), larvae, about fifty specimens, from 

 clover. By A. B. Cockingham, East Avon, Livingston Co., N. Y. 



The same, from a clover field. By Charles F. Milliken, Canan- 

 daigua, N. Y. 



The same in the beetle stage, feeding upon beans, July 2d. By J. F. 

 Rose, South Byron, Genesee Co., N. Y. 



Otiorhynchus ligneus (Oliv.), from a dwelling-house at Lycoming in- 

 fested with them. By Dr. C. M. Coe, Lycoming, Oswego Co., N. Y. 



Otiorhynchus ligneus, associated with Anthrenus scrophulanai in a 

 dwelling. By Prof. Henry M. Seely, Middlebury College, Middle- 

 bury, Vt. 



Anthrenus scrophularice Linn., from Schoharie, N. .Y. By Mrs. E. 

 W. Street, Albany, N. Y. 



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