REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1908 AI 
NOTES FOR THE YEAR 
A number of insects have been brought to attention during the 
past season. Some of the more important outbreaks are noticed 
in the following paragraph. The large, greenish caterpillar of the 
imperial moth, Basilona imperialis Drury, was unusu- 
ally abundant during August and September, and on Staten Island 
it was credited with being somewhat injurious. Ordinarily this 
species is so rare as to attract no attention. The scurfy bark louse, 
Chionaspis furfura Fitch, has been abundant in several 
localities. This species has attracted more notice in recent years, 
partly because the presence of the San José scale has increased 
popular interest in the work of all Coccidae. The scurfy scale, 
however, appears to have been more destructive during the last 
five years than the equally common oyster scale, Le pidosaphes 
ulmi Linn. 
Maple trees have been injured somewhat in various localities by 
the cottony maple scale, Pulvinaria innumerabilis 
Rathv., and also by the false maple scale, Phenacoccus 
acericola King. Both of these species are more likely to be 
injurious in the southern part of the State, though the false maple 
scale was sufficiently abundant to attract attention at Johns- 
town. The elm bark louse, Gossyparia spuria Mod., oc- 
curred in numbers on elms in both Brooklyn and Mt Vernon and 
also at Schenectady. This latter pest is rather generally distributed 
in the eastern portion of the State at least and, as pointed out by 
the writer earlier, the English sparrow is probably an important 
factor in carrying the pest from tree to tree in our cities. 
Fruit tree insects 
Gipsy moth (Porthetria dispar. Linn:): This imsect 
has not to our knowledge established itself in New York State, 
though a marked advance in our direction was discovered during 
the season, small colonies having been found at Springfield and 
Greenfield, Mass., both localities about 50 miles from our State 
line. The work against this insect in Massachusetts, as shown by 
our investigations in midsummer, is being most vigorously pushed, 
particular stress being laid upon preventing its further spread. 
This species, as has been repeatedly explained, spreads slowly, being 
dependent largely upon the activity of man and beast for convey- 
