REPORT. 



Office of the State Entomologist, ) 

 Albany, December lo, 1895. ' 



To the Regents of the University of the State of New York : 



Gentlemen. — I have the honor of transmitting herewith my 

 Eleventh Report on the Injurious and Other Insects of the State of 

 New York, for the current year, 1895. The Ninth Report, for the year 

 1892, was published in 1893. The report for the year 1893 was 

 necessarily brief, embracing but 25 pages, and was therefore desig- 

 nated merely as a report for that year and not numbered in the 

 regular series. The Tenth Report of the series for the year 1894 has 

 not been printed at the time that this is submitted. 



The work of the department continues to be successfully prose- 

 cuted. The insect attacks requiring special investigation have not 

 been as numerous as in some former years, consequently a larger 

 share of attention has been given to a few of our more destructive 

 pests. Among these which have received special study was the 

 "San Jos6 Scale" — one of the most injurious scale-insects known to 

 science and which for several years has been exceedingly harmful to 

 the fruit interests on the Pacific Coast. It has recently made its 

 appearance in the Atlantic States, and there was reason to believe 

 that from infested nurseries in New Jersey and New York large dis- 

 tribution had been made of it, through the i-ale of nursery stock, into 

 other States. The importance of arresting its spread and exterminat- 

 ing it where it had obtained a foothold, was recognized. As it was 

 learned that stock from known infested nurseries had been sent to 

 nearly every county in the State of New York, it was proposed that 



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