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c o n q u i s i t () r Sa\-, tliouyh as a rule tliis insect appears to be remarkahly 

 free from the attacks of natural enemies. 



Distribution. This species occurs in New York, New Jersey, and has 

 been listed by Dyar from the northern Lhiited States. 



Bibliography 

 1S90 Packard, A. S. U. s. Ent. rum. 5th Rep't, p. 830-38 



Larch sawfly 

 LvgiicoiiCDia/ us (•rn/isoim' flartig' 

 A greenish yellow sawtlv larva lrei|uentlv deloliates larc lies in midsummer. 



This insect has been repeated!)" broui^^iit to the attention of the writer 

 and also to that of his predecessor, 1 )r |. ,\. Lintner, on account of the 

 serious injur}' inllicted in recent years on the larches or tamarack of the 

 Adirondacks. 



Early history. I)r A. S. Packard states that his attention was first 

 called to this s|)ecies in Auqust 18S2, when he saw the effects of its work 

 at Brunswick Me. It at that time had partly or entirely stripped the 

 larches in the very wet swamps on the banks of the Androscoyi;'in ri\er. 

 He f(_)und that most of the trees, both large, ones 6 to 10 inches in 

 cbameter, and small saplings 6 to 15 feet in hight, had been attacked and 

 that some of the trees had been stripped, others partly defoliated, and 

 still others had escaped injury, those in the middle of the swam|) appear- 

 ing to have sufferetl most. He also published se\eral extracts from local 

 papers of that year, all of which were to the eftect that the larches had been 

 very seriously injured by this imported insect. Its work was observed 

 at I'ranconia N. H., in the same year by Prof. W. W. Bailey and it also 

 attacked larches in \arious parts of Massachusetts. The work of this 

 species was observetl in New York .State July 25 and early in August 

 1S83 at lloricon and Pottersville, Warren co., and at .Schroon Lake in 

 Esse.x count}-, as stated l)y Dr Packard. The trees were defoliated by the 

 first of August and the affected region was very extensive, covering many 



