586 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL. 



the report for that year, 150 egg masses were received from Pliil- 

 adelphia through Mr. Phihp Laurent, who also supplied thein on 

 succeeding occasions. These were distributed in the vicinity of 

 Glassboro, Riverton, Moorestown, Burlington, Cologne and in 

 the experiment orchard at New Brunswick. As a result of the 

 placing of these egg masses insects were observed at j^one of the 

 places except New Brunswick where several immature and two 

 mature specimens were seen the following summer and several 

 egg masses the following winter. A male also was found early 

 in October of the same year in a nursery at Elizabeth where it 

 had probably been received with nursery stock either in the egg 

 stage or as an immature insect. 



Another lot of egg masses was received fnmi Philadelphia in 

 April, 1902, and as stated in the report for that year they were 

 distributed near Mount Holly, Hightstown, Arlington and 

 Newark. At all these places adults were observed later in the 

 season, and in October several male and female sj^ecimens, the 

 descendants of last year's insects, were seen in the exi^eriment 

 orchard at New Brunswick. A few egg masses also were placed 

 at Fort Lee earlv in the season and later it was reported that part 

 of these had hatched. 



During the winter of i902-'03 egg masses from introductions 

 made the previous spring were observed in Burlington, Glouces- 

 ter and Atlantic counties and also at New Brunswick, so that it 

 W'OS evident that the insect was l>ecoming establish.td in some 

 localities, although apparently not spreading to any extent. 

 Nevertheless, to increase the chances of success, another consign- 

 ment of egg masses was secin*ed and distributed in Februarv, 

 1903, in lots of 30 masses each. These were placed in the vicin- 

 ity of Mount Holly, Palmyra, Cologne. Woodrufif, Eatontown, 

 Woodbine. Glassboro, Moorestown and on the College Farm near 

 New Brunswick. Those sent to Wcx>dclitTe were not used until 

 the insects had hatched and then the insects themselves were well 

 distributed. From the first three named places reports \vere re- 

 ceived later in the season that partly grown siiecimens of the 

 insect had been obsen-ed. Thirty-five egg masses were also dis- 

 tributed in favorable situations along the road l^etween South 

 Orange and Hemlock Falls, making a total of about 350 egg 

 masses distributed during that year. 



No egg masses were distributed during the ]>resent year, but 

 earlv in the spring an examination was made* of the locality in 

 the vicinitv of South Orange where they had l)een placed a year 



• Bv Mr. K. I.. Dicktrson who has prepared this record. 



