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J. P. Ostiguy, 78 Union Street. 



Large spider (Argiope riparia, Hentz). 



Miss A. L. Sanderson. 



Rare beetle (Cychrus viduus, Dej.), from Colerain, Mass. 



Charles G. Whiting, 284 Pine Street. 



Egg-cocoon of spider (Argiope riparia, Hentz), containing hymenop- 

 terous egg-parasites. 



Dr. W. H. Chapin, 675 State Street. 

 Mosquito larva? (Culex sp.). 



W. F. Emerson, Longmeadow, Mass. 



Butterfly (Papilio philenor, L.), and its larva. 



William F. Gale, City Forester. 



Wood bored by different beetles. 



Pine scale insects (Chionaspis pinifoli?e, Fitch), and elm scale (Gossy- 

 paria ulmi, Geoff.). 



J. H. Hendrick, 632 State Street. 



Galls of an undetermined insect that deforms the berries of swamp 

 huckleberry (Vaccinium corymbosum, L.). 



W. E. Holmes, Putnam, Conn. 



Specimens of raw silk, and of silk in various stages of manufacture. 



Mr. Robert O. Morris has given a number of birds; among these a 

 three-toed woodpecker in winter plumage from Bangor, Maine, a black- 

 bellied plover from the Massachusetts coast, and a semi-palmated sand- 

 piper from Longmeadow. 



Record is also made of other general gifts in zoology in the appendix 

 of this report. 



Animal Groups. 



In this department the museum has received three notable additions 

 during the past year. 



Mr. Gurdon Bill has given a muskrat group. Fiber zibethecus, a 

 description of which was given in the last annual report. It has attracted 

 much attention, and is highly instructive as to the habits and haunts of 

 the animal represented. 



Two very large cases and important groups have been added through 

 the generosity of Mr. Nathan D. Bill, the vice-president of the association. 

 One of these represents a group of American elk, Wapiti, Cervis Canaden- 

 sis (Eixleben.) ; the other a family of the bison, bison bison (Linn.). 



