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No sign of insect injury was observed in the field. The beans- 

 are now about 6 inches in hight, and many of them have buds 

 3 or 4 inches long. [The trouble was referred to the work of a 

 small flyPhorbia fusciceps]. Aug. 2. 



Greene county (O. Q. Flint, Athens) — It is the impression in 

 the western part of the county that the forest tent-caterpillar 

 [Clisiocampa disstria] will be much less abundant 

 than in i^revious years. Ap. 25. Both the forest tent-cater- 

 pillar and the appletree tent-caterpillar [Clisiocampa 

 a m e r i c a n a] have hatched, and are much more numerous 

 than heretofore in the eastern part of the count}', though not 

 so abundant in the western part as when they first appeared 

 in destructiA^e numbers. The forest tent-caterpillars have been 

 exceptionally injurious in the eastern and east-central parts of 

 the county, defoliating appletrees in particular. The same i» 

 true in the western portion of Columbia county. The numbers 

 of this pest are much decreased in the western part of Greene 

 county and in Otsego county. The continuous wet weather ap- 

 pears to have retarded the development of the tent-caterpillars. 

 June 5. The forest tent-caterpillars appear to have done the- 

 greatest injury, when present in a localit^^, in orchards, but they 

 have been comparatively harmless in the forests. June 14. 



Herkimer county (George S. Graves, Newport) — The appletree 

 bark louse [M y t i 1 a s p i s p o m o r u m] was exceedingly abun- 

 dant on Pennsylvania maples in this vicinity. Feb. 11. The 

 first appletree tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa ameri- 

 c a n a] were observed Ap. 26 in one place and in another May 4. 

 Ko forest tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria] have 

 been observed as yet. May 10. The cigar case-bearer [C o 1 e o - 

 phora f let chore 11 a] is present ou appletrees in large 

 numb(>rs and is doing considerable damage to the buds and 

 maples. The nests of the appletree tent-caterpillar are not as 

 plentiful as last year in this locality. Five appletrees here have 

 been practically ruined by the appletree bark louse. The cold 

 weather appears to have delayed the hatching of tent-caterpillar 

 eggs. May 16. A few clusters of the forest tent-caterpillar have 



