oGO NEW JERSEY AGEICULTURAL COLLEGE 



Brood Xo. \Ul. in my Eeport for 1889 is now No. XIV. of 

 j\[;ir]atl, iiiul it^ distribution Avns given as "the soutlieasteni part 

 of Mnssju'liusorts, across Long Island, along the xltlantic coast to 

 Chosnpeake bay, and np the Susquehanna at least as far as Car- 

 lisle, in Pennsylyania ; also in Kentucky, at Kanawah in West 

 Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, on the Ohio river." ]!^o definite 

 localities were then known in Xcav Jersey, but as tlie results of my 

 inyestigations, tVnir points were established: Knglewood, Bergen 

 county, along rlu' Palisades; Princeton, fiercer county; Palmyra^ 

 7->urlington county, and Ped Iiank, in Gloucester county. This 

 nndvcs a diagonal but disconnected line across the State, and no- 

 ■wherc did the insects occur in any nmubers. 



]\ly exjiorience with the more recent broods and the obseryations 

 made of the deadly warfare waged by the sparrows on these insects 

 incIiiHHl me to the belief ihat the brood would appear in greatly 

 reduced numbers during the current year, if at all, and I therefore 

 asked a large number of the office correspondents to keep a lookout 

 tVir the species, and to send in reports and specimens should any 

 occur in their locality. The members of the Brookhai, Xew York, 

 K^ewark and Philadelphia Entomological Societies were also asked 

 to co-operate, and the office staff was charged to obseiwe any signs 

 of the insects' presence and to question farmers everysvhere. 



The result was entirely negatiye ; not a single specimen was 

 receiyed from any locality within the State; not a sign of their 

 presence was noted, and all reports of their occurrence when in- 

 yestigated proved to lie unfounded. This brood seems to have been 

 completely eliminated, or so greatly reduced in numbers that 

 nothing was seen of it. On Long Island and in Pennsylvania the 

 insects appeared in their usual numbers, and I believe that in other 

 })arts of their range they were also obseiwed. On Staten Island a 

 few ])upa sludls were found, iudicatinii; that the insect did appear 

 there. 



Mr. Dickersdu. in the course of his inspections of orchards and 

 nurseries, covered the entire ground of its appearance in 1889 and 

 made special tri]is to Englewood and to the woodland area between 

 Princeton and Kocky Hill during the period of their usual occur- 

 rence. Nowhere did he find any trace td' the species. 



It is more than probable that the remaining broods will become 

 less numerous at each appearance as the forests are cleared and as. 



