1 0000 



Orthoptera 



950 



II255 



Neuroptera and / 





9100 



Pseudoneuroptera [ 



2000 



115 



Thysanoptera 



118 



6622 



Other small orders 



500 



3328 







42 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



figures as to the number of American insects. The data are tabu- 

 lated below : 



Hymenoptera 



Coleoptera 



Diptera 



Siphonotera 



Lepidoptera 



Hemiptera 



43988 



A recent catalog of the insects of New Jersey, a state with a 

 considerably smaller area and lacking the climatic and other 

 diversities of New York, lists over 10,000 species. It seems con- 

 servative to place the probable number of insect species existing 

 in this State at twice that figure. A thoroughly representative 

 collection of New York forms should therefore contain well 

 toward 20,000 native species, and since each has at least four 

 well-marked stages, some 80,000 different forms. Many species 

 and a great number of the stages are unknown. There is ample 

 work to occupy a well-equipped corps of entomologists in the 

 State Museum for many years, not to mention the much addi- 

 tional labor involved in assembling and maintaining greatly en- 

 larged entomological exhibits. 



Nursery inspection. The nursery inspection work conducted by 

 the State Department of Agriculture has resulted in the Entomolo- 

 gist being requested to make numerous identifications and also 

 recommendations in regard to the policy which should be pursued 

 by the State. Many of the specimens submitted for name were in 

 poor condition, and as they may represent any stage in insect de- 

 velopment and frequently originate in a foreign country, such deter- 

 minations are laborious and time-consuming. The correct identifica- 

 tion of such material is, however, very important, since the dis- 

 position of large shipments of nursery stock must depend, in con- 

 siderable measure, upon our findings. 



Miscellaneous. In cooperation with the Division of A'isual In- 

 struction, the Entomologist secured an excellent and somewhat ex- 

 tended series of photographs, mostly of injurious or common insects. 

 This material was all taken in connection with other collecting, it 

 only being necessary to pose the specimen for the photographer. 



