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way. Three hundred and ninety-five mounted specimens of various orders of 

 insects from Texas, by exchange with Mr. G. A. Belfrage. Two living speci- 

 mens of the " Colorado Potato beetle," Doryphora decemlineata from Laporte, 

 Ind., by Mr. W. 0. Ross. A bymenopterous insect from Boston, by Mr. R. C. 

 Greenleaf. About seventy-five specimens of insects and larvge in alcohol, from 

 North Wrentham, Mass., by Mr. Luther Hills. Seventy-five specimens of 

 Cicada septendecim from Baltimore, by Dr. C. D. Homans. One hundred and 

 eighteen European Coleoptera in alcohol, and one hundred and fifty insects also 

 alcoholic, from Barnstable, Mass., by Mr. T. W. Thacher. Over three hundred 

 alcoholic specimens of insects from Springfield, Mass., by Mr. Solomon Stebbins. 

 Forty-five alcoholic specimens of insects from Lexington, by Mr. Chas. A. 

 Wellington. Twenty-eight alcoholic specimens of insects from West Newton, 

 by Mr. Henry A. Purdie. Twenty-one larvse of Lepidoptera from South Ded- 

 ham, by Mr. Nelson B. White. One larva of a Lepidopteron from Charlestown, 

 by Mr. Stillman Holt. One lepidopterous larva from Andover, by Mr. A. C. 

 Locke. Two specimens of Cicada septendecim from Ohio, by Dr. J. E. Tyler. 

 Diapheromera femoraia from Jamaica Plain, by Mr. Isaac H. Cary. Diaphe- 

 romera femoraia from A'icinity, by Mr. H. Blanchard. Alcoholic specimen of 

 Spirobolus marginatus and thirty-eight specimens of insects, from Walding- 

 field, Kanawha Co., West Va., by Maj. J. W. M. Appleton. Sixty-four mounted 

 specimens of insects from South America, by Dr. B. S. Shaw. Alcoholic 

 specimen of Epeira fasciata and egg sac from Hampton Falls, N. H., by Miss 

 Francis Dow. Nest of My gale Girardii from California, by Mr. R. E. C. Stearns. 

 CeUs containing young of the " yellow jacket " wasp, Vespa germanica, from 

 China, Me., by Mr. J. McKay. A fine specimen of the golden nut-weevil, 

 Balaninus Sayi from Woburn, by Mr. J. G. Shute. Diapheromera femorata, $ , 

 from Maiden, by Mr. John K. Abbott. A dry specimen of Mygale from St. 

 Domingo, by Mr. E. C. Ring. A number of insects from Hart's Location, 

 N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Diaplieromera femorata, $ , from Suncook, N. H., 

 by Dr. Hildreth. Over three hundred specimens, illustrating various facts in 

 insect economy, from the West Indies, Southern States and New England, 

 seventy-five Lepidoptera from the Isle of Pines, and seven from India, by Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder. A large number of fine specimens of insects pinned, and others 

 in alcohol from Walpole, by Miss Clarissa Guild. Several singular cylindrical 

 galls from Holly Springs, Miss., by Dr. Arnold. Five Arachnidaa, four Myria- 

 poda and two specimens of Stenopelmatus talpa from Arizona, by Capt. F. 

 Dame. Cocoon of Platysamia Cecropia from Dedham, by Mr. Geo. F. Fisher. 

 Ten finely mounted specimens of insects from Cambridge, by Mr. S. Lockwood. 

 Two living specimens of Belostoma Ealdemanum from Jamaica Plain, by Mr. C. 

 F. Smith. Large dry specimen of Tropidacris dux from South America, by 

 Miss Whitwell. Nine specimens of five species of Crambus, from Beverly, 

 determined by Prof. Zeller, by Mr. Edward Burgess. A pair of Boreus bruma- 

 lis in alcohol, from Medford, by Dr. E. P. Colby. A pair of Chrysophora cliryso- 

 chroa from Napo River, S. A., by Prof. James Orton. Sixteen specimens of 

 Brephos infans and two abnormal cocoons of Satumians, from Jamaica Plain, 

 by Mr. C. S. Minot. Several galls of Cynips quercus-jiais, cocoons of Callo- 

 samia Promethea, cluster of eggs of Clisiocampa sylvatica, one hundred and sixty 



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