REPORT 



Office of the State Entomologist ) 

 Albany, December 15, 1897 ^ 



To the Regents of the University of the State of New York 



Gentlemen : I have the honor of presenting my 13th report on the 

 injurious and other insects of the state of New York, for the year 

 ending Sept. 30, 1897, containing in the main the results of observations 

 and studies made by me during the year, together with some of the 

 details pertaining to my official work. 



Copies of the nth report for the year 1895, were received last 

 January, and about 600 have been distributed to societies, to students 

 in entomology in this country and abroad, and to agriculturists and 

 others to whom its contents should be of interest and value. 



The minor publications made during the year, usually in reply 

 to inquiries of insect attacks of more or less general interest, and 

 contributed to agricultural or local newspapers, were 40 in number. 

 Abstracts of these are given in the appendix to this report, after the 

 manner adopted in preceding reports. Some of the more important of 

 these notices are published in full, or extended in the annual reports. 

 A list of earlier publications of the entomologist briefly summarized, 

 501 in number, extending from 1870 to 1888, may be found in the 

 volume, entitled Bibliography of the more important contributions to 

 American economic entomology, published in 1896 by the U. S. depart- 

 ment of agriculture, division of entomology. 



The additions to the state collection of insects have not been as large 

 as in previous years, as no special time was devoted to field collections. 



