REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



[Read before the Western New York Horticultural Society at its Annual 

 Meeting, January 26th, 1893.] 



In grateful recognition of the tribute paid by this society to the 

 science of economic entomology, in giving place in its annual convoca- 

 tions, amid so many papers of a high order of excellence, and discus- 

 sions replete with interest and instruction, to a " Report on Entomol- 

 ogy " 3^our committee takes pleasure in presenting the following report : 



[Remarks on the remarkable exemption during the past year from 

 insect injuries and its probable causes, with reference to several species, 

 are given on pages 293, 294 of this Report.] 



Various Pests of the Year, 



Among the insect demonstrations of the year, the following may 

 deserve a few words of notice at the present time. 



[Notice of several of these demonstrations, as of the fall tent-worm, 

 Hyphantria cunea; the green-striped maple Avorm, Dryocannjia ruhi- 

 cunda- the cabbage caterpillar, Plusia brassicce; the canker-worm, Ani- 

 sojyteryx vernata; the apple- worm of the codling-moth, Carpocapsa 

 pomonella ; the white grub, Lachnosterna fusca; the elm-leaf beetle, 

 Galemcella xanthomelcpna ; a gooseberry pest, Systena frontalis; the 

 Colorado potato-beetle, Doryphora decemlmeafn ; the plum curculio, 

 Conotraehelus nenuphar; and a house-infesting beetle, Otiorhynchxis 

 ovaMis, are contained in General Notes for the Year on pages 295, 

 296, and 297 of this report and are therefore omitted here.] 



Passing from these general notes, may I ask your attention to a 

 more detailed notice of three insect enemies of fruit and forest and 

 shade trees, which are, at the present, subjects of specif study, in the 

 hope of discovery of means by which their serious ravages may be 

 arrested. 



The Gypsy Moth. 



Notwithstanding the mauj^ insect pests of the first rank that are 

 preying upon and devouring the products of the orchards, vineyards, 

 nurseries, gardens, fields, and forests of the State of New York, it is a 

 cause of thankfulness that another insect pest which the people of an 

 adjoining State have been for the past two years, under liberal State 



