New York State Museum 

lot Ee REPORT 
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15899 
OrFICE OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 
Albany, 14 Oct. 1899 
To the Regents of the University of the State of New York 
_ GENTLEMEN: I have the honor of presenting herewith my report on 
the injurious and other insects of the state of New York for the year 
ending Oct. 14, 1899. 
General entomologic features. Excessive injuries by the forest 
tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa disstria Hiibn. were even more 
pronounced in many localities the present season than last year. On 
account of this insect’s appearing in force on many maples adorning 
roadsides, the outbreak attracted more than the usual amount of atten- 
tion and induced vigorous efforts in certain communities to prevent 
serious injuries. The village authorities of Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs, 
Herkimer and a few other places were obliged to fight the pest at public 
expense. The closely related apple tree tent caterpillar, Clisio- 
campa americana Fabr. was unusually destructive, specially in 
the western part of the state. ‘The appearance of a brood of 17 
year cicadas, Cicada septendecim Linn. in the Cayuga lake 
region excited considerable interest. Some attention, in an incidental 
way, has been given to the distribution of certain insects believed 
to be limited to the upper austral life zone. One of the most 
important results of this work was to show that the 12 spotted asparagus 
beetle, Crioceris 12-punctata Linn. was much more generally 
distributed throughout the state than had been supposed. A personal 
examination of sugar maples in Syracuse, Batavia and Leroy showed 
that the sugar maple borer, Plagionotus speciosus Say, had 
