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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



The following are the Contributions that have been made to the 

 Department during the year 1891: 



Hymenoptera. 



Cells of a wasp'in a fold of paper. From Rev. H. TJ. S winner-ton, 

 Cherry Valley, N. Y. 



Currant twigs containing the eggs of the currant-twig girdler, June 

 6th. From J. F. Rose, South Byron, N. Y. 



A saw-fly larva on snow-berry from S. C. Bradt, Albany, N. Y. 



Trichogramma sp., eighteen examples in alcohol; bred from an egg 

 on pine. From Harison G. Dyar, Yosemite Valley, Cal. 



Lepiboptera. 



Larva of Ceratomia Amyntor Htibn., September 14th. From Mrs. 

 Abra.m Lansing, Albany, N. Y. 



Alypia octomaculata (Fabr.). From Mrs. Frederick Carman, 

 Albany, 1ST. Y. 



Thirty examples of larvae of Lepidoptera in alcohol; also alcohol 

 examples in other stages; collected in the Yosemite Valley, Cal., as 

 follows : 



Papilio Rutulus Boisd. 1. 

 Phyciodes Mylitta Edw. 5. 

 Vanessa Antiopa Linn. 2. 

 Heterochroa Calif ornica Butler, 2. 

 Orgyia carta H. Edw. 4 and eggs. 

 Orgyia deflnata Packard, 2; also 



eggs and female moth. 

 Orgyia leucostigma (Sm.-Abb.) 4 



young. 

 Packardia elegans Packard. 



Datana major Gr.-Rob., larva, 1 



pupa. 

 JVadata Behrensii H. Edw. 2. 

 Clisiocampa constricta Stretch. 1. 

 Pheosia dimidiata Her.-Sch. 3. 

 Amphipyra pyramidoides Guen. 1. 

 Examples Nos. 248, 269, 274, 275, 



284, 298, undetermined and 



unenumerated. 

 From H. G. Dyar, New York. 



Eggs of Halisidota carym Fitch, on apple leaf. From J. G. Lins- 

 ley, Oswego, N. Y. 



Larvae of Agrotis ypsilon (Rott.) from onion plants, June 16th. 

 From P. P. Milmok, Canastota, K Y. 



