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  TWENTY-NISTTH 
  REPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  Ruby- 
  throated 
  Humming-bird, 
  Trochilus 
  colubris 
  (Linn.). 
  From 
  

   Verplanck 
  Colvin, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  Sea 
  Lamprey, 
  Petromyzon 
  Americanus 
  Lesu., 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Hud- 
  

   son 
  river, 
  at 
  Albany, 
  May 
  10th 
  ; 
  length, 
  twenty-nine 
  inches. 
  

   Purchased 
  for 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  A 
  Red-fin, 
  Leuciscus 
  comutus 
  Mitch. 
  From 
  W. 
  W. 
  Hill, 
  Albany, 
  

   N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  spiny 
  box-fish, 
  Chilomyeterus 
  geometricus 
  (Linn.) 
  

   Kaup 
  (Diodon 
  maculato-striatus 
  Dekay). 
  New 
  York 
  harbor, 
  Oct. 
  

   5th. 
  From 
  Charles 
  E. 
  Scharff, 
  Albany 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  Collection 
  made 
  at 
  Danville, 
  Illinois, 
  consisting 
  of 
  about 
  300 
  

   examples 
  of 
  Lepidoptera 
  ; 
  Coleoptera 
  in 
  about 
  500 
  examples 
  ; 
  

   Hymenoptera, 
  ten 
  examples; 
  Diptera, 
  twelve 
  examples; 
  Orthop- 
  

   tera, 
  about 
  thirty 
  examples 
  ; 
  Neuroptera, 
  about 
  twenty 
  examples 
  ; 
  

   Homoptera, 
  about 
  thirty 
  examples. 
  

  

  An 
  alcoholic 
  collection 
  of 
  Larvse 
  of 
  Insects, 
  etc., 
  in 
  alcohol, 
  nineteen 
  

   bottles; 
  Araneina, 
  twenty 
  bottles; 
  Pedipalpi, 
  four 
  bottles; 
  

   Myriopoda, 
  thirteen 
  bottles. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  are 
  the 
  following 
  species 
  : 
  

  

  Sesia 
  marginalis 
  Grote. 
  Danais 
  Archippus 
  (Fabr.). 
  

  

  Deilephila 
  tersa 
  (Linn.). 
  Argynnis 
  Cyhele 
  (Fabr.). 
  

  

  Philampelus 
  Pandorus 
  (Hiibn.). 
  Grapta 
  interro. 
  v. 
  umbrosa. 
  

  

  Cressonia 
  Juglandis 
  (Sm.-Abb.). 
  Grapta 
  Progne 
  (Cram.). 
  

  

  Macrosila 
  5-??iaculata 
  (Steph.). 
  Pyrantels 
  Atalanta 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  Macrosila 
  Carolina 
  (Linn.). 
  Vanessa 
  Antiopa 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  DoTba 
  Hylceus 
  (Drury). 
  Actias 
  Luna 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Asterias 
  Fabr. 
  Samia 
  Cecropia 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Philenor 
  Linn. 
  Spilosoma 
  Yirginica 
  (Fabr.). 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Troilus 
  Linn. 
  Arctia 
  Virgo 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Cresphontes 
  Cram. 
  Dipterygia 
  pinastri 
  (Linn.). 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Turnus 
  Linn. 
  Er 
  aster 
  ia 
  carneola 
  Guen. 
  

  

  Papilio 
  Ajax 
  v. 
  Mar 
  cell 
  us. 
  Dr 
  aster 
  ia 
  erechtea 
  (Cram.). 
  

  

  Pieris 
  Protodice 
  Boisd.-Lec. 
  Catocala 
  innubens 
  Guen. 
  

  

  Colias 
  Philodice 
  Godart. 
  Hoematopis 
  grataria 
  (Fabr.). 
  

  

  A 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera, 
  etc., 
  will 
  be 
  given 
  hereafter. 
  

  

  From 
  William 
  Gurley, 
  at 
  Ithaca, 
  1ST. 
  Y. 
  A 
  very 
  large 
  proportion 
  

   had 
  become 
  entirely 
  worthless 
  from 
  the 
  depredations 
  of 
  the 
  

   Anthrenus. 
  Received 
  in 
  exchange 
  for 
  Museum 
  reports. 
  

  

  Menobranchus 
  lateralis 
  Harl., 
  from 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  

   near 
  Albany. 
  From 
  Robert 
  T. 
  L. 
  Crafts, 
  Newton 
  ville, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  