Il8 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Coleoptera 



Berosus subsignatus Lee, Psyllobora taedata Lee. 

 Conotelus stenoides Murr. , Scaptolenus lecontei 

 Salle, Photinus benignus Lee, Lobetus abdominalis 

 Lee. 



Diptera 



Beskia aelops Walk., Sturmia distincta Wied., Sarco- 

 phaga assidua Walk., S. quadrisetosa Coq., Pseudopy- 

 rellia comicina Fabr. , Pachycerina clavipennis Coq. 



Lepidoptera 



Chlorochlamys phyllinaria Zell. , Loxostege manca- 

 1 i s Led., Lineodes Integra Zell., Crambus teterrellus 

 Zink., C. mutabilis Clem., Saluria tetradella Zell., P t e r o - 

 phorus inquinatus Zell. , Platynota nigrocervina 

 Wals., Anaphora popeanella Clem. 



PURCHASE 



House fly, Musca domestica Linn, (x 30), model 



Malarial mosquito, Anopheles, dissectible model of head, (x 800) 



House mosquito, Culex pipiens Linn., dissectible model of head. 



(x 800) 

 The above from The Kny-Scheerer Co., New York city 



INSECT COLLECTIONS 

 Summary statement 



The total number of insect specimens in the collections ap- 

 proximates 150,000 distributed about as follows: 



Orthoptera i 770 Lepidoptera 31 624 



Odonata 987 Diptera 24953 



Xeuroptera i 001 Coleoptera 40 267 



Hem.iptera 12 113 Hymenoptera n 9i7 



The alcoholic material belonging in various groups amounts 

 to some 25,000 specimens. 



The Hill collection, included in the above estim.ate, comprises 

 some 10,000 specimens of Lepidoptera. 



The Lintner collection, also included in the above enumera- 

 tion, comprises some 19,228 specimens, distributed as follows: 

 Orthoptera 91; Odonata 241; Neuroptera 230; Hemiptera 1377; 

 Lepidoptera 10,182; Diptera 978; Coleoptera 5002; Hymenoptera 

 IT 26. 



There are on exhibition some 5746 specimens, distributed as 

 follows: Orthoptera 146; Odonata 31; Neuroptera 43; Heniip- 



