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CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTION OCT. 15, 1906-OCT. 



14, 1907 



The following is a list of the more important additions to the 

 collections. 



DONATION 



Hymenoptera 



Sphex ichnenmonea Linn., adult, Aug. 20, Miss Hazel C. Hil- 

 ton, Old Chatham, N. Y. 



Pelecinus polyturator Dru., adult, Sept. 5, L. F. Brown, 

 Cobleskill, N. Y. 



Andficus seminator Harr., wool sower, gall on oak, June 10, 

 from Washington, D. C. and A. ? petiolicola Bass., oak leaf stalk 

 gall, June 23, from East Orange, N. J.; both from Miss E. G. Mitchell, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A . s i n g u 1 a r i s Bass., oak leaf apple gall on oak, June 17; Rhodites 

 bicolor Harr., spiny bullet gall on rose, June 17, from Shushari, N. Y., 

 S. H. Burnham, Albany, N. Y. 



Coleoptera 



Xyleborus dispar Fabr., pear blight beetle, adult on peach, 

 June 4, Virgil Bogue, Albion, N. Y. 



L a c h n o s t e r n a ? fusca Froh., May beetle, larvae attacking 

 roots of seedling pines, Aug. 19, C. R. Pettis, Lake Clear Junction, N. Y. 

 Same, larvae on roots of evergreens, Aug. 27, E. S. Woodruff, Wawbeek, 

 N. Y. 



Plesiocis cribrum? Casey, adult on Polyporus on spruce, May 

 21, from Woburn, Mass. C. H. Peck, Albany, N. Y. 



A c o p t u s s u t u r a 1 i s Lee. ; Piazurus oculatus Say ; 

 Conotrachelus anaglypticus Say ; I p h t h i m u s o p a c u s 

 Lee. ; Oncideres cingulata Say; Dorcus parallel us Say; 

 Corymbites hamatus Say; Geopinus incrassatus Dej. ; 

 Dicaelus dilatatus Say ; N o t i o p h i 1 u s s i b i r i c u s Mots. ; 

 C a 1 o s o m a externum Say; Carabus serratus Say; Jan. 21, 

 all from R. F. Pearsall, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Charles P. Alexander, Gloversvillc, N. Y. has contributed a number of 

 species, some extremely desirable, in return for numerous identifications. 



Diptera 



O 1 f c r s i a a m e r i c a n a Leach, adult on barred owl, Oct. 25, D. W. 

 Alcott, East Grecnbush, N. Y. 



A g r o m y z a a e n c i v c n t r i s Fall., larvae, Nov. 11, Miss C. H. Clarke, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Trypeta bigeloviae Ckll., galls, June 2-4, from Florissant, Col. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Col. 



A number of Cecidomyiid galls, L. H. Joutel, New York, N. Y. 



