Report of the State Entomologist. 15 



that they were in such force as to devour all the foliage of the 

 apple trees and eat the young fruit. Examples of the insect were 

 sent to me for name, with inquiries of their nature and of means 

 for arresting their raA^ages, as they were exciting much alarm 

 among the fruit-growers of that region. A reply was made in 

 which were given the best known remedies against the pest, which 

 was published in the Osicego Times of June eighteenth (see sum- 

 mary of the communication in another page of this Report). At 

 Memphis, Onondaga county, at the same time, the beetles were 

 said to be eating the young peaches and killing the corn. 



An attack on apple trees at Moriches, Sutiblk county, in early 

 June, by the fall canker-worm Anisopteryx pometaria Hari'is, was 

 recognized, in examples of the caterpillars sent. 



A formidable attack was made by the quince curculio, Conotra- 

 cheliis craficgi Walsh, late in September, in the quince orchards of 

 T. C. Maxwell & Bros., at Geneva, N. Y. The injury had been serious 

 the preceding 3^ear, but this season it was still more severe. Of 

 the crop of 1,000 bushels, fully one-third was more or less affected. 

 Some of the cjuinces that appeared the finest outwardly, were 

 found upon cutting, to contain several of the larva? feeding in 

 cavities within, defiled with their blackened excrementa. It was 

 learned on inquiry, that probably about one-twentieth of the 

 fruit dropped from the trees, the larvae continuing therein until 

 driven out by decay. The entire crop ripened earlier than usual, 

 and much of it decayed while still upon the trees. Recommenda- 

 tion was made of working the ground of the orchard thoroughly 

 so as to destroy the larva? by crushing and exposure after they had 

 buried for pupation. 



The novel form of injury inflicted upon the elms of Albany in 

 the year 1883, by the white-marked tussock moth, Orgijia leuco- 

 stigma (Sm.-Abb.), in girdling the young tips of elms and causing 

 them to fall, has been repeated this year, as will be found noticed 

 hereafter. 



The imported elm-leaf beetle, Galeruca xanthomekoia (Schrank), 

 which for several years past, to the southward of us, has 

 been such a merciless defoliator of the elms, completely rob- 

 bing them of their value as shade and ornamental trees and 

 reducing them to unsightly harborers and propagators of a dis- 

 gusting insect presence, has continued steadil}^ to progress over 

 the south-eastern portion of the State, until it has reached Rough- 



