﻿ADDITIONS 
  TO 
  THE 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  DURING 
  THE 
  YEAR 
  1875. 
  

  

  I. 
  ZOOLOGICAL. 
  

  

  Forty-three 
  species 
  and 
  four 
  varieties 
  of 
  U. 
  S. 
  Land 
  and 
  Freshwater 
  

  

  Shells 
  (number 
  of 
  examples 
  not 
  recorded); 
  Feb. 
  1, 
  1875. 
  

   Twenty-nine 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  in 
  181 
  examples 
  ; 
  Feb. 
  18th. 
  

   Eighty-seven 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  in 
  520 
  examples 
  ; 
  March 
  15th 
  : 
  a 
  

  

  total 
  of 
  159 
  species. 
  From 
  Dr. 
  James 
  Lewis, 
  Mohawk, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   Samia 
  Cecropia 
  (Linn.), 
  June 
  26th. 
  From 
  O. 
  F. 
  Russ, 
  Albany, 
  

  

  KY. 
  

   Larvae 
  of 
  Samia 
  Cecropia 
  (Linn.) 
  and 
  Anisota 
  senatoria 
  (Sm.-Abb.) 
  ; 
  

  

  Aug. 
  24th. 
  From 
  R. 
  W. 
  Dowse, 
  Albany, 
  K 
  Y. 
  

  

  Corydalis 
  comuta 
  (Linn.), 
  the 
  Hellgrammite 
  fly 
  ; 
  July 
  15th. 
  From 
  

   T. 
  H. 
  Gibbon, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Larva 
  of 
  Thyreus 
  Abhotii 
  Swains 
  ; 
  June 
  16th. 
  

  

  Larva 
  of 
  Pyrrharctia 
  Isabella 
  (Sm.-Abb.), 
  taken 
  Dec. 
  22d, 
  in 
  motion, 
  

   in 
  the 
  open 
  air. 
  From 
  Miss 
  Alice 
  DeWitt 
  Spragfe, 
  Castle- 
  

   ton, 
  K 
  Y. 
  

  

  Monohamr/ius 
  titillator 
  (Fabr.) 
  ; 
  Aug. 
  17th. 
  From 
  Frederick 
  Cook, 
  

   Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Larvae 
  of 
  Lachnostema 
  quercina 
  (Knoch). 
  From 
  W. 
  W. 
  Hill, 
  

  

  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   Alans 
  OGulatus 
  (Linn.), 
  the 
  owl 
  beetle, 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  stump 
  of 
  a 
  

  

  cherry 
  tree 
  at 
  Castleton, 
  Dec. 
  28th. 
  From 
  C. 
  H. 
  Yan 
  Benthuysen, 
  

  

  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  Hair-snake, 
  Gordius 
  longilobatus 
  Leidy, 
  drawn 
  from 
  a 
  water- 
  

   faucet 
  in 
  Albany. 
  From 
  II. 
  P. 
  Phelps, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  Lesser 
  Red 
  Poll, 
  JEgiothus 
  linaria 
  Cab., 
  shot 
  in 
  

   New 
  Scotland, 
  Albany 
  county, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  From 
  John 
  S. 
  Moak. 
  

  

  Bonaparte's 
  Gull, 
  Larus 
  (Chrmcocephdlus) 
  Philadelphia 
  (Ord.) 
  Gray. 
  

   Taken 
  May 
  3d 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river, 
  near 
  Albany. 
  Purchased 
  

   for 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  