REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1 899 535 



pages embracing (as estimated) 38,000 references. Though this has 

 required an enormous amount of labor, it is beheved that the ofhce itself 

 will be amply repaid for the work done in the additional facilities for 

 referring to previous reports. 



The office is fortunate in possessing two valuable assistants. C. S. 

 Banks, of Oswego N. Y. was graduated from the Oswego normal 

 school in 1896 and has taken two short courses in entomology at Cornell 

 university. In adddition he has studied and collected insects on his 

 own account for some years. Miss Margaret F. Boynton, of Lockport 

 N. Y. was graduated with honors from Cornell university in 1895, held 

 a graduate scholarship there in science during the college year 1896-97 

 and since then has done considerable work in natural history. 



Pressure of other work has prevented the preparation of the usual 

 detailed notices of injurious insects observed during the year. The 

 scientific results of the season, aside from certain notes submitted here- 

 with, will be presented at some future time. 



Publications. An effort has been made to send out timely infor- 

 mation through the press, so as to be of service in preventing injury 

 from insect attacks. This is of more importance than at first appears, 

 because many complaints are received when it is too late to apply 

 remedial measures. A number of circular letters were prepared and 

 sent to papers in localities where the insects noticed were likely to cause 

 damage. Remedial measures were indicated in this way for the follow- 

 ing insects: white-marked tussock moth, Notolophus leuco- 

 stigma Abb. & Sm., elm leaf beetle, Galerucella luteola Miill., 

 forest tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa disstria Hiibn. and the 17 

 year cicada. Cicada septendecim Linn. Two short bulletins 

 were issued in April and May, one designed to encourage the study of 

 insects and to aid voluntary observers and the other to give popular in- 

 structions for controlling insect depredations on shade trees. A popular 

 account of several of the most important shade tree insects, illustrated 

 by three colored plates, has been prepared for the report of the fisheries, 

 forest and game commissioners. A list of the publications of the ento- 

 mologist, 95 in number, is given as heretofore. 



Collection of insects. The additions to the state collection of 

 insects have been greater than in any preceding year. My assistant, Mr 

 Banks, has spent considerable time in the field collecting forms specially 

 desired. The contributions of insects from correspondents have been 

 larger than heretofore. The additions made by the office force have 



