REPORT. 



Office of the State Entomologist, i 

 Albany, November 30, 1894. ) 



To the Regents of the University of the State of Neio York : 



Gentlemen. — The Entomologist, in accordance with the pro- 

 vision of chapter 355 of the Laws of 1883, presents herewith to 

 your honorable board the following report : 



Owing to an unusual pressure of official work — principally in 

 an increased correspondence and several special insect investiga- 

 tions which have not been completed — there has not been the 

 opportunity for preparing the usual report embracing the obser- 

 vations and studies made during the year. It is, therefore, 

 thought better to present the following partial report, and post- 

 pone a more extended one until the material in hand can be suit- 

 ably prepared for presentation hereafter. 



In former reports reference has been made to the steadily 

 increasing correspondence of the office, but in no preceding year 

 had it attained to such magnitude as to engross almost the entire 

 time of the Entomologist. The simple statement of the number 

 of letters received and answered could give no adequate idea of 

 the time occupied in the correspondence. Inquiries for informa- 

 tion of the names of insects — whether they are injurious or not 

 — of their habits and means of control, when received from 

 remote parts of the United States to which they are peculiar, may 

 require an entire day, or more, in their study and in examination 

 of their scattered literature before they can be satisfactorily 



