REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 793 
on cats and dogs. Potato beetles [Doryphora 10-lin- 
eata] and cabbage worms are very abundant. Aug. 2. The 
birch leaf Bucculatrix [Bucculatrix canadensis- 
ella] is exceedingly abundant in this vicinity, having skel- 
etonized the majority of the leaves on almost all the birches 
in this region. Sep. 12. 
Saratoga county (Miss Rhoda Thompson, Ballston Spa)—There 
are fewer appletree tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa amer- 
icana]| and more plant lice and cutworms than there have 
been for the last two years. Currant worms [Pteronus 
ribesii] have also been very abundant. June 7. Rose beetles 
[Macrodactylus subspinosus] and wireworms are 
about as abundant as usual. Squash bugs [Anasa tristis] 
are present in enormous numbers and are causing considerable 
injury. July 12. There is a plague of grasshoppers in this 
vicinity, and they are doing a great deal of mischief. It was 
found they had cut off from two thirds to three fourths of the 
grain in a field of oats. Corn has also been much injured. 
Some farmers are cutting their grain before maturity in order 
to save it from injury. 
Schenectady county (Paul Roach, Quaker Street)—Forest tent- 
eaterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria] were first observed 
on the south side of the woods. May 5. Appletree tent-cater- 
pulars [Clisiocampa americana| and forest tent-cater- 
| pillars will probably be fewer than last year. The cold, wet 
weather appears to have retarded the hatching of eggs and 
development of insect life. Bud moth larvae [Tmetoucera 
ocellana|] are present in small numbers. May 8. There are 
only a few appletree tent-caterpillars on the wild cherrytrees. 
The season has been cold and excessively wet, and not many 
of the caterpillar eggs appear to have hatched. May 31. 
- Sehoharie county (John F. Johnson, Breakabeen)—Appletree 
tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] were first 
observed May 1, and forest tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa 
disstria] May 7. The former are abundant, and the latter 
not more than half as numerous as last year. The cold, rainy 
