ToL a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
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 fly Phorbia 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 previous years. Ap. 25. Both the forest tent-eater- 
pillar and the appletree tent-caterpillar [Clisiocampa 
americana| have hatched, and are much more numerous. 
than heretofore in the eastern part of the county, though not 
so abundant in the western part as when they first appeared | 
in destructive 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 is. 
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 locality, in orchards, but they 
have been comparatively harmless in the forests. June 14. 
Herkimer county (George 8S. Graves, Newport)—The appletree 
bark louse [Mytilaspis pomorum] was exceedingly abun- 
dant on Pennsylvania maples in this vicinity. Feb. 11. The 
first appletree ‘tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa ameri- 
cana| were observed Ap. 26 in one place and in another May 4. 
No forest tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria] have 
been observed as yet. May 10. The cigar cage-bearer [Coleo- 
phora fletcherella] is present on appletrees in large 
numbers 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 
