No. 4.] 



THE GYPSY MOTH. 



385 



Burlapped, 



SiJrayed, . 



Trimmed, 



Scraped, . 



Cut, . 



Acres of bnishland and woodland cut and burned over, 



Buildings : — 

 Inspected, 

 Found to be infested, 



Wooden fences : — 

 Inspected, 

 Found to be infested, 



Stone walls : — 

 Inspected (rods), 

 Found to be infested. 



Number of each form of the moth destroyed during the 

 year by hand : — 



Caterpillars, 



Pupae, 



Moths, 



Hatched or infertile egg-clusters, . 

 Unhatched and probably fertile egg-clusters. 



567,025 



4,327 



90,820 



929 



132,391 



477 



24,764 

 815 



43,917 

 1,318 



18,997 

 633 



1,808,105 



441,899 



44,291 



31,501 



• 884,928 



The number of trees reported as inspected is not so large 

 as the number reported in 1895. This may be accounted for 

 by the reduction of the appropriation and the late date at 

 which it was granted, both of which made a thorough inspec- 

 tion impossible in 1896. The number of trees found infested 

 in 1896 (57,723) is considerably less than the number found 

 infested in 1895 (76,794). Y^et the reduction in the number 

 of infested trees in the region is more apparent than real, 

 for, as it has been impossible to inspect thoroughly as large 

 a portion of the field as was last year examined, there are 

 undoubtedly many trees in the woodland of the central 

 towns on which egsfs have been laid during the summer or 

 fall of 1896, which have not yet been examined and are 

 therefore not recorded. There has been, however, a con- 

 siderable gain, in that most of the infested places in the 

 outer towns have been cleared ; and, although the number of 

 trees actually infested this year may possibly be as large as 

 the number infested last year, they are mostly in fewer 

 localities, nearer the centre of the region, so that they can 

 be cleared at less expense than if they were scattered through 

 the outer towns. 



