REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



PART I. 



VICTOR H. LOWE. 



I. INTRODUCTION. 



Toward the latter part of February of the past year, the writer 



was directed to leave the Long Island Branch Station for the 



purpose of taking charge of the entomological work at Geneva. 



As this is the first year that an entomologist has been employed 



here, the work of investigation and experiment was necessarily 



delayed until suflScient equipment could be secured to enable the 



work in the new field to be begun in a satisfactory manner. The 



report which follows is in no sense a continuation of work taken 



up on Long Island, but represents work done during the past 



year only. \ 



Principal Lines of Work. 



The work has been conducted along three principal lines as 

 follows: First, the keeping of records which relate to the life 

 history, habits, etc., of injurious and beneficial species of insects. 

 Under this head comes the keeping of notes, the making of 

 illustrations, etc. The notes are properly arranged and filed 

 away for future use. The illustrations are either drawings or 

 photographs as the occasion demands, the object being to picture 

 the insect in all its stages of development, to show its methods 

 of work and the injury done. In addition to these, maps showing 

 the distribution in the state and in the United States are made 

 as fast as the data can be obtained. The illustrations are also 

 kept on file. Second, the building up of the Station collection of 

 insects. This is being done by purchase, exchange and by col- 

 lections made in the field. Third, investigations and experiments. 

 These are necessarily carried on both in the laboratory and in 

 the field. This part of the work has not been carried to the 

 extent that it might have been owing to unavoidable delays in 

 the early part of the season. 



