REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1902 169 



Introduction (continued) page 



Extension work 702 



Collection of insects 702 



Pan- American collection 703 



New quarters 703 



Voluntary observers 704 



Acknowledgments' 704 



Injurious insects 



Cecidomyia destructor Say, Hessian fly 705 



Notes for the year 731 



Fruit tree pests 731 



Shade and forest tree pests 738 



Garden and other insects 749 



Unusual abundance of southern forms 757 



Experunental work against the San Jose scale insect 761 



Summary of experiments 775 



Voluntary entomologic service 776 



Sunamaries of reports 776 



List of publications of the entomologist 800 



Contributions to collection 808 



Appendix: Entomologic exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition 1901 825 



Explanation of plates 899 



Plates 1-6 face 900 



Index 901 



Scale Insects of Importance (American Gardening, Sep. 13, 1902, 



22 :593-94) 



Reprint of portions of Museum bulletin 46 on above group. 

 Asparagus Beetle (Country Gentleman, Oct. 2, 1902, 67:810) 



Remedies for Crioceris asparagi Linn. 



Report on Insects (N. Y. State Fruit-Growers Ass'n Rep't. 1902. 



6th An. Rep't 1902. p.210-18) 



Brief notes on the unusual occurrence of a ntunber of southern species. 

 Report of the Committee on Insects (Eastern N. Y. Hortic. Soc. 



6th An. Rep't 1902. p.210-18) 



Some general observations on the abundance of southern forms are given 

 together with notes on the value of trap lanterns, and the results of recent experi- 

 ments with various insecticides against San Jose scale. The injuries inflicted by 

 various bark borers are briefly recorded, and the following insects are noticed: 

 Hickory bark borer, Scolytus 4-spinosus Say ; elm leaf beetle, G a 1 - 

 erucella luteola Miill; grapevine Fidia, Fidia viticida Walsh; 

 forest tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa disstria Hiibn. ; C e n o p i s 

 diluticostana Walsm. ; carrot rust fly, Psila rosae Fabr. ; rose scale 

 insect, Aulacaspis rosae Sandb. ; European praying mantis, Mantis 

 r e 1 i g i o s a Linn. 



