114 * REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



The following are old accessions placed in the entomologist's room 

 on the dates stated : 



8133. Calliyliora sp. ; Lucilia sp. ; Silpha lapjpoiiicd (larva). Alaska. From E. W. 



Nelson, U. S. National Museum. Dated September 24, 1880. Received May 



13, 1885. Specimens not in good condition. 

 10802. Dytiscus sp. ; Colym'beles ep. Alaska. From E. W. Nelson, Sitka, Alaska. 



Dated December 10, 1881. Received April 14, 1885. Specimens entirely 



broken and unfit for further determination. 

 14790. Number of alcoholic insects from Isthmus of Panama, province of Cheregin, 



New Granada. From J. A. McNiel (through L. Lamson &. Brother), 77 Maiden 



Lane, New York. Received March 2. About 40 specimens, comprising two or 



three species of Myriapoda, two species of ScorpionidaB, several Ortboptera 



of the families Locust idae and Acrididse, a few species of Coleoptera, and one 



Mygalo (Arachnidae). All common species. 

 15539. A number of named Coleoptera. Algeria. Donor unknown. Received March 



2. Seventeen specimens and 15 species, in rather dilapidated condition. 



Dr. Nash, U. S. N., accompanying the expedition under Lieutenant 

 Stouey to Alaska, received in February and March a complete entomo- 

 logical outfit, and careful instructions how to collect and preserve speci- 

 mens. It is to be hoped that a good collection of insects may be brought 

 from that region. 



Dr. Warrington Eastlake, of Tokio, Japan, placed, March 12, 1885, at 

 the disposal of the Museum a paper on the Lepidoptera of the island of 

 Hong-Kong, which was afterwards published in the Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. 



From correspondence, unaccompanied by specimens, the following is 

 perhaps worthy of note : 



Mr. G. W. Peters, Caldwell, Sumner County, Kansas, not dated, in 

 March, complained of injury done to young carp by some water insect, 

 which from his description was determined as a species of Dytiscus or 

 Cybister. Capturing the beetles with a net was recommended as a 

 remedy. 



Mrs. A. C. Bowels (letter April 9, 1885), of Abington, Mass., desired 

 information regarding the "buffalo bug" (Antlirenus scrophularicc). 



Mr. de Plason, of Vienna, Austria, offered his large collection of 

 Coleoptera for sale, price $5,000; but for various reasons 1 could not 

 recommend its purchase. 



Several letters with questions regarding mounting, &c, of specimens 

 were answered. 



The larva received under accession 1G174, JEJurycr eon rantalis, is of 

 considerable interest as having appeared in phenomenal abundance over 

 a very large portion of the West and Southwest, webbing up and de- 

 vouring all garden vegetables, and even corn and some other field crops. 

 I received very many communications about it during the summer, and 

 shall publish a full account of it in my forthcoming report to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



Quite a lot of alcoholic material has been received through Dr. E. W. 



