Eighth Report of tee State Entomologist. ]27 



studies, if their published results are to be accepted as valuable 

 scientific contributions. 



The collections made during the year were not as large as in 

 some preceding years, owing to the shorter time that could be 

 spared from office duties, and from a lesser abundance than usual 

 of insect life. Particular attention was again given to the insects 

 occurring in high altitudes in the Adirondack region, the fauna 

 of which has been so im])erfectly explored. Several new and 

 many valuable forms were obtained in Essex county, in the towns 

 of North Elba, Wilmington, and Iveene, and life- histories, more or 

 less complete, worked out. 



Contributions to the collections have been received from a larger 

 number of donors, but aggregating less in the number of sjiecimens 

 than reported in 1S9(>. As of special value ma}^ be particularized 

 a package of alcoholic specimens of Lepidoptera from Mr, H. G* 

 Dyar, of [New York city, mainly of rare larval forms, collected by 

 him in the Yosemite valley, Cal., and described in scientific 

 journals. 



The report herewith submitted contains, under the division of 

 Injurious Insects, a somewhat full notice of the several species, 

 after the manner in which I would be glad to present most of the 

 insects embraced in these reports, i. e., in so general and full an 

 account, drawn from their literature and combined with new 

 observations as may afl'ord ample means for the arrest of their 

 depredations, or their protection if desirable. But this, under 

 the requirement for the completion of the report in readiness for 

 |)rinting on the first of October, is impracticable. I have, there- 

 fore, embodied under JSTotes on Various Insects, such briefer 

 notices as seemed worthy of placing on record at the present 

 time ; and under Insect Attacks : Their • Remedies and Pre- 

 ventives, notices of several of the more interesting attacks of 

 the year, together with approved remedies for some of che long 

 and well known insect pests. 



The Appendix contains two addresses made before State 

 boards of agriculture by the Entomologist, and a list of the 

 principal publications of the Entomologist during the year, of 

 which fifty-seven are named and brief summaries given ; also 

 the usual list of the contributions to the collections of the 

 department. ' 



