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CONTRIBUTIONS. 



The following contributions to the Collections have been received 

 during the year : 



Examples of Bombus fervidus Fall., B. Virginianus Oliv., 

 Yespa vulgaris and Pelopceus cceruleus. From Mrs. Emily Smith, 

 Coeymans, N. Y. 



Cocoons and imagines of Limneria fugitiva Say, from (Edemasia 

 concinna (Sm.-Abb.). From A. S. Fuller, Ridgewood, N. J. 



Examples of a minute chaleid, Copodosoma truneatella, reared 

 from a larva of Plusia brassicce Riley. From Mrs. Julia P. Ballard, 

 Easton, Pa. 



Larvae of a saw-fly, Dolerus sp. which cuts off the heads of 

 wheat and feeds upon the stalks. From J. E. Wittmer, Slab, York 

 county, Pa. 



Papilio Asterias Linn., Tetrads lorata Grote, and Mesographa 

 stramentalis Hiibn. From Mrs. E. Smith, Coeymans, N. Y. 



Larva of Thecla Irus Godt., burrowing in a plum. From E. 

 Moody & Sons, Niagara Nurseries, N. Y. 



Bemhidium quadrimaculatum (Linn.), sent as injuring straw- 

 berry leaves. From J. P. Little, Columbia, Conn. 



Telea Polyphemus (Cramer). From H. C. Hunt, Albany, N. Y. 



Actias Luna (Linn.). From J. F. Black, Albany, N, Y. 



Larva of Cossus Centerensis Lintner, apparently full-^rown, July 

 second, and galleries of the same in Populus. From Bernard 

 Schmidt, Jr., Albany, N. Y. 



Larvae, less than half-grown, of Gortyna nitela Guen., burrow- 

 ing in stems of tomato, June eighteenth. From E. G. Fowler, 

 Port Jervis, N. Y. 



Larvae of Phakellura nitidalis Cram., from musk melons. From 

 H. C. Schmitz, Crozet, Ya. 



Larvae and cocoons of Bucculatrix sp. ? on yellow birch, Betula 

 lutea, September fourteenth. From Shelby Reed, Scottsville, 

 Monroe county, N. Y. 



Larvae of Tischeria malifoliella Clem., mining apple tree leaves, 

 September thirteenth, at Menands, N. Y. From Prof. Charles H. 

 Peck, New York State Museum of Natural History. 



