ECONOMIC /ool.ocv KN'TOMOLOCV. 653 



History of the StriiuMl ('iicuiiilx'r Hcctle, witli a Hricf Aciount of Soiuo Experi- 

 ments for its Control, is tiit' title of a paper pn'sented Ijy T. J. Headlee (pp. 

 203-2(>!>». in wliich an account is yiven of life liistory. injury to plants, natural 

 eueuiies, and methods of combating Diabrntiru vittnta. 



Papers are also included by H. A. Uossard on The Catalpa Bud Maggot 

 iVechlomijia catalpcr) (jip. isi, ^s.2). on Notes of the Season (pp. 183-191), 

 and on The Honey aiul I'ollen-yicldiu;,' I'lants of Texas, by A. F. Conradi 



(pp. im-2o:n. 



Report of the sixth annual meeting of the American Association of 

 Horticultural Inspectors {■/our. iU-im. I^tit.. 1 i I'JOS), .Vo. ,i, />/>. ,220-22'i). — A 

 brief report is uiven of the meeting held at Chicago. Illinois. December 27. 1J)07. 



Twenty-third report of the State entomologist on injurious and other 

 insects of the State of New York, 1907, K. P. Fi:lt (.Y. 1'. Stale Mua. Bill. IZJ,, 

 pp. o'll, pis. .'I'l, figs. .'/O). — During the year under report a wide departure of 

 the climatic conditions fi-om that of normal years apjiarently accounted for a 

 remarkable dearth of injurious insect outbreaks. The spread of the San Jose 

 scale continued and in some instances, where little effort was made to check its 

 ravages, practically the entire fruit crop was ruined. Several shade-tree pests 

 caused considerable devastatiou. 



The green-striped maple worm (Aiiisota i uhicunda) was abundant in one 

 county where it stripped the leaves from large blocks -of forests. The snow- 

 white linden moth {Ennomos subsignnrius) was very abundant on beech trees 

 in the Catskills and defoliated these trees over large areas in one locality. 



Notes for the year include data on the red-himiped apple-tree caterpillar, 

 lesser peacli borer, lesser apple worm, apple maggot or railroad worm. San 

 Josf scale, grape-i-oot worm, white-marked tussock moth, elm-leaf beetle, sugar- 

 maple borer, white grubs, Epizcii-ris (Iriiticiildlis, Arcliips sorbinna, birch-leaf 

 bucculatrlx, Lrufohrrithos brcphoUlcs. and the jieriodical cicada. .1. sorbiann 

 was brought into the State in April. lOO)}. on Japanese maple imported direct 

 from Japan, but these were destroyed and none are supposed to have escaped. 

 Biological and economic notes and bibliographical references are given on 

 Anisota riibicunda, Heterocnmpa guttivitta, Ennomos subsignarius, and .An- 

 cyliis niibf'culana. Lists are given of the publications of the entomologists dtn*- 

 ing the year 1907 and of contributions to the State collection. 



Appendix A consists of a list of the William W. Hill collection of lepidop- 

 tera embodying lO.dOf) species which has been added to the State collection. 

 In Ajipendix B is given a catalogue of the Phytoptld g;ills of North America by 

 (Jeorge II. Chadwick. In this list a total of 170 forms are recorded and ref- 

 erences to the literature are given. In Appendix C appears a report of the 

 entomological field station conducted at Old Forge, New York, in the summer 

 of 11M».">. by James (i. Needliam. This contains information on new methods 

 emidoyed in ecological w(M"k. data on the food of fishes, and biological notes on 

 a number of a(piatic forms, itarticularly May flies, dragon flies, and crane 

 flies. A new genus and two new spwies are described, and a table of classi- 

 fication, the larval habits, and a key to the genera of North American crane 

 flies are included, together with an account of the aiipendages of the se<'ond ab- 

 dominal segment of male dragon flies by Oliver S. Thomiison. and descriptions 

 of new North American Chironomldie by Oscar A. J(»hannsen, with bibliograph- 

 ical references by each. In Appendix I) are given descriptions of new species of 

 C«H'ldomyiida'. a di.scussion of the Clrcumlili of the CtM-idomylidjo. and studies 

 with preliminary keys for the recognit i()n of certarn Cecidomyiidjp. 



Injurious insects, F. (J.vRcfA ( \nr Mcrico Stii. Hit!. US. pp. .>-<>.?, figs. 35). — 

 A general accoimt is given i»f the more import:mt injurious insects occurring 

 in the State, these being considered under the headings garden Insects, insects 



