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even worse than in Albany, and yet the city authorities did nothing to 
check it, except some spraying in public parks. The direct result of 
severe and general injury to the trees was a great demand for spraying 
apparatus operated by skilled men. One individual fitted up two power 
spraying outfits of a most approved type, beginning operations with the 
first last summer and with the second the present season. He has had 
more work than he could attend to, and it is to be presumed that he has 
lost no money in running them. 
Asparagus beetles (Crioceris asparagi, Linn. C. 12- 
punctata Linn.) It has been my conviction for some time that the 
common asparagus beetle was more generally distributed in the state 
than is shown by previous records. The attention of voluntary 
observers was called to this insect and specimens were received from 
several localities. Last spring the 12 spotted form was taken in two or 
three places about Albany, and this, in connection with its occurrence 
near Rochester for a number of years, its discovery near Buffalo last 
year and at East Amherst and Newark the present season would indicate 
that this form has also attained quite a general distribution. Personal 
observations have enabled me to locate both of these insects in several 
places where they have hitherto been unrecorded. Crioceris 
asparagi is now known to occur in the following localities: Albany 
county, Albany, Menands; Dutchess county, Poughkeepsie; Erie 
county, Buffalo, East Amherst; Essex county, ‘Ticonderoga ; 
Genesee county, Batavia, Leroy; Greene county, Athens, Catskill ; 
Livingston county, Geneseo; Madison county, Lebanon, Oneida; Monroe 
county, Brighton; Oneida county, Maynard, Vernon, Whitesboro ; 
Onondaga county, Syracuse; Ontario county, Geneva; Orange county, 
Cornwall, Westpoint; Oswego county, Oswego, Oswego Center; Putnam 
county, Garrisons; Rensselaer county, Troy; Saratoga county, 
Mechanicville; Ulster county, Kingston; Wayne county, Clyde, 
Newark; Yates county, Crosby. Crioceris 12-punctata 15s 
known to occur in the following localities: Albany county, Albany ; Erie 
county, Buffalo, East Amherst; Genesee county, Batavia, Leroy; Kings 
county, Brooklyn; Monroe county, Brighton; Onondaga county, 
Syracuse ; Oswego county, Oswego Center; Queens county, Glendale, 
Richmond Hill; Tompkins county, Ithaca; Wayne county, Newark ; 
Yates county, Crosby. Dr James Fletcher, entomologist of the Central 
experimental farm of Canada, informs me that both species of asparagus 
beetles are abundant in the Niagara district and as far back as Hamilton, 
Ontario. 
