826 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
this, brief directions are given for controlling the various 
forms. The enormous number of injurious insects, even in New 
York state, made it imperative that the exhibit should be 
limited to the more important forms, and that the insects 
selected be grouped in a manner easily comprehended by the 
general public; they are therefore arranged under various 
important food plants, etc., and each group receives special 
notice under an appropriate head. 
There are many who are interested in insect life for other 
than economic reasons. Students of entomology will find much 
of interest in the systematic collection, in which are native 
representatives of all the more important families, and begin- 
ners will derive much aid in the care of their specimens from 
a study of the technical collection. Those attracted by the 
peculiar or beautiful in nature will find much of interest in 
the collection of the work of gall insects, in the mimicry col- 
lection and in the collection of New York beauties, the latter 
being an assemblage of some of the more beautiful native but- 
terflies and moths. The wing frames and framed photographs 
present by means of statistics and illustrations some of the 
more important activities of the office. The entire exhibit can 
now be seen at the state museum, Albany N. Y. , 
Fruit tree insects (nos. 1-23). This collection of 23 different 
species includes some of the most important insect enemies of 
man, such as the codling moth, a species causing an estimated 
annual loss in New York state alone of about $3,000,000, the 
plum curculio, appletree borers (both exceedingly destructive), 
rose beetle, appletree tent-caterpillar, case-bearers and others, 
all insects causing much loss annually to fruit growers. Many 
of these pests have been repeatedly noticed in the reports and 
bulletins issued by the state entomologist, and, for excellent 
accounts of individual species, the reader is referred to the 
citations given in the appended catalogue. | 
Vine and small fruit insects (nos. 24-41). This group comprises 
18 of the most injurious forms depredating on the grapevine, 
currant, raspberry and other small fruits. One of the most 
important species represented is the grapevine root worm, a 
