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important of those issued during the past year are the following : 

 Grapevine Root Worm (Museum bulletin 59), 18th Report of the 

 State Entomologist 1902 (Museum bulletin 64) and Aquatic Insects 

 in New York State (Museum bulletin 68). In addition, the ento- 

 mologist has contributed an important paper on insects injurious 

 to pine and oaks, for the seventh report of the Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission, and one on insecticides for the report of the 

 Colorado State Board of Horticulture for 1902. 



Other important publications, which are either in the printer's 

 hands or practically completed, are as follows: Grapevine Root 

 Worm, a revised and extended edition of Museum bulletin 59, men- 

 tioned above. A monograph of the genus Saperda, which includes 

 some of our most destructive borers, has been prepared by the 

 entomologist in association with Mr L. H. Joutel of New York 

 city, and will form a small bulletin of about 80 pages illustrated 

 by 7 colored plates. Dr Needham's third report, mentioned in the 

 preceding paragraph, is practically completed and will be an ex- 

 tended work about the same size as Museum bulletin 68. There 

 is also a memoir on insects injurious to forest and shade trees, an 

 extensive publication illustrated with many halftones and 16 

 colored plates, treating specially of those forms which are destruc- 

 tive to shade trees. 



Collections of insects. Very large additions have been made to 

 the state collections during the past season. They are specially 

 desirable because a considerable proportion have come from other 

 sections of the State. Mr Young spent several weeks in the Ad- 

 irondacks in special work on forest insects, and he has collected 

 at intervals throughout the season in cooperation with the Vassar 

 Brothers Institute, at Poughkeepsie, and also at Long Island 

 while engaged on mosquito investigations. The results have been 

 large and exceedingly valuable additions to the si ale col led ions. 

 Much progress has been made in arranging insects previously col- 

 lected. The Lepidoptera, which are in the care of Mr Walker, 

 have all been referred to the principal groups and manv deter- 

 mined specifically. He has also arranged the Coccidae, now 

 represented by 98 species and a hosl of specimens, while Mr Young 

 has been able 1o do considerable systematic work on the Tenthre- 



