REPORT. 



Office of the State Entomologist, ) 

 Albany, December 14, 1896. C 



To the He gents of the University of the State of New York : 



Gentlemen. — I have the honor of presenting to your Board my 

 Twelfth R-eport on the Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New 

 York. 



The work of the department has been dihgently and successfully prose- 

 cuted during the year. A large number of insects have been studied, 

 most of which are of economic importance to the farmer, the fruit-grower, 

 or to the general public. Among these special attention was given to 

 the army-worm in consideration of its distribution and destructiveness 

 throughout the larger portion of the State of New York to an extent not 

 previously recorded. In the pages devoted to the elm-leaf beetle will be 

 found interesting observations upon the long continuance, in successive 

 broods, of the insect in this vicinity — quite at variance with what has 

 hitherto been ascribed to it. Instead of the beetle going into retreat for 

 hibernation in the month of August, the insect has remained with us 

 from its first appearance in May until into November as active larvae and 

 transforming in its subsequent stages. Quite a number of the insect 

 attacks that have come under observation, have been noticed briefly in 

 " Notes on Some of the Insects of the Year in the State of New York," 

 and others, more fully, in their proper place in the body of the report. 



Work upon the classification, arrangement, and labeling of the Collec- 

 tion has been continued. Some progress has been made in the prepara- 

 tion of a biological collection in the limited time that could be spared 

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