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from India and a larger one of mostly reared species from the Philip- 

 pine Islands. This material has been worked up, that relating to 

 the former has been published and the manuscript discussing the 

 latter has been submitted for publication in the Philippine Journal 

 of Science, together with a complete tabulation for the families, 

 tribes and genera of the Itonididae, which latter should do much 

 toward placing the classification of this large and very diverse 

 group upon a thoroughly scientific basis. 



Lectures. The Entomologist has delivered a number of lectures on 

 insects, mostly economic species, before various agricultural and 

 horticultural gatherings, some of these being in cooperation with 

 the Bureau of Farmers Institutes or county farm bureau agents. 

 Several lectures have also been given under the auspices of local 

 welfare associations. 



Publications. A number of brief, popular accounts of the more 

 injurious insects have been prepared by the Entomologist and widely 

 circulated among county farm bureau and New York State Food 

 Supply Commission agents, the latter as a part of the Insect Pest 

 Survey and Information Service. 



Owing to delay in printing the report for 19 16, the only bulletin 

 from the State Entomologist's office issued during the past year is 

 No. 194, " Household and Camp Insects," briefly noticed above. 

 Several important papers have appeared in current entomological 

 journals, such as " New Western Gall Midges " in the Journal of 

 the New York Entomological Society, " New North American Gall 

 Midges " and " New Indian Gall Midges," both in Entomological 

 News, and " Distribution of Gall Midges " in the Proceedings of 

 the National Academy of Sciences. 



Collections. Additions to the state collections have been con- 

 stantly made throughout the year, especially of specimens repre- 

 senting the early stages and work of various injurious forms, since 

 biological material of this character greatly facilitates the identi- 

 fication of insects and is indispensable in a well-prepared exhibit 

 illustrating the life histories of various species. 



Owing to the pressure of work incident to conducting the Insect 

 Pest Survey and Information Service, a large amount of time was 

 necessarily devoted to the identification of numerous specimens and 

 as a consequence it was impossible for the Entomologist and his 

 staff to give the usual amount of labor to the very desirable and 

 really necessary work of classifying and arranging specimens already 

 in the state collections. Numerous microscopic preparations of 



