REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1918 15 
Mr Young, in addition to numerous identifications for correspond- 
ents, and other routine work, has made material progress in arrang- 
ing and classifying the important parasitic flies belonging to the 
Tachinidae and is now devoting much time to the difficult 
Anthomyiidae, among which latter are found such pests as the onion 
maggot and the cabbage maggot. He was also exceptionally 
fortunate in collecting at Wells a large series of Amphicoma 
vulpina Hentz, an extremely rare Scaraebaeid hitherto repre- 
sented in the state collections by only one or two specimens without 
a recorded locality. 
Miss Hartman’s time has been fully occupied, in addition to 
numerous routine duties, by the many translations of technical 
literature needed in systematic work, the making of numerous excel- 
lent microscopic preparations of smaller insects, the arrangement 
and care of the pressed specimens of insect work and the extensive 
accumulations of alcoholic material. 
The maintenance and development of an adequate representation 
of the insect life of the State means an enormous amount of work 
and with the passing of the present war stringency more adequate 
provision should be made for this line of activity. There are more 
than twenty thousand species of insects in the State, each repre- 
sented by at least four stages and not a few presenting marked dif- 
ferences between the various molts or instars of the larva. This 
gives an idea of the enormous number of forms falling within the 
province of the entomologist. A thoroughly representative state 
collection should contain specimens of all and in the case of the many 
variable species, specimens of both typical and aberrant forms. 
Such a collection possesses not only scientific value because of the 
immense amount of material assembled and the lines of develop- 
ment illustrated, but is of great practical service in the speedy 
identification of any one of the thousand of insects of the State which 
without warning may become suddenly abundant and destructive. 
It is well known that satisfactory control measures can not be 
advised without at least some knowledge of the habits of the insect, 
and the more complete this is the more reliable the recommendations. 
The development of collections requires adequate space. The 
constant increments of recent years have filled the boxes or trays to 
such an extent that there is urgent need of more space for this 
material. The wooden cases containing the insect collections should 
be replaced by steel cabinets and more provided to accommodate the 
additional boxes and trays required. Biological material, specimens 
difficult to secure and not easily preserved in a satisfactory manner 
