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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
here this year than last, when it attacked nearly three fourths 
of the crop. Our season has been extremely wet, and I think 
that both of the tent-caterpillars and aphids have been later 
than usual, but now they are very abundant. June 5. Canker 
worms [? Paleacrita vernata|] are even worse than last 
year, and very little effort is being made to check them. They 
have attacked forest trees badly in some sections, seeming to 
favor the elms and spreading from them to neighboring 
orchards. The appletree and forest tent-caterpillars [Clisio- 
campa americana and C. disstria] are very abund- 
ant on apple and cherry trees, but during a long drive yesterday, 
TI saw nests only in apple and cherry trees. This is a great con- 
trast to last year, when they worked on nearly everything. They . 
are now crawling along the fences, sidewalks and roads, look- 
ing for places in which to spin up. Our fields (we have some 60 
acres scattered around in different places) look uniformly bad 
from attack by the Hessian fly. They were sowed beginning 
Sep. 20 and ending a week later. Our wheat is as near a com- 
plete failure as it is possible to be and yield anything. We may 
get 5 or 6 bushels to the acre, but we shall probably plow the 
greater part of it. Both asparagus beetles are present here, 
but the 12 spotted one [Crioceris 12-punctata] is rare. 
The common form [Crioceris asparagi] is so bad that 
it is almost impossible to find any asparagus on the market 
except that which is covered with its eggs. June 11. I am 
mailing a number of apricot twigs infested with what is appar- 
ently a peach twig moth. [Cenopis diluticostama 
Walsm., kindly determined by Prof. C. H. Fernald, subsequently 
was bred from these twigs.] The pale striped flea beetle [Sy s- 
tena taeniata] observed by us working on seedling apple- 
trees last year, is now attacking sugar beets. June 24. The 
small beetles [Notoxus anchora| sent herewith are very 
numerous around the roots of wheat. In our seed bed we have 
several varieties of wheat, all of which were badly injured by 
the Hessian fly except a check row of “ Dawson’s golden chaff,” 
not a single straw of which is down. This check row was sown 
