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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  work 
  has 
  been 
  established 
  and 
  we 
  look 
  for 
  a 
  great 
  extension 
  of 
  

   interest 
  in 
  the 
  local 
  suppression 
  of 
  these 
  annoying 
  pests. 
  

  

  Aquatic 
  insects. 
  The 
  studies 
  of 
  insects 
  inhabiting 
  our 
  fresh 
  

   waters 
  have 
  been 
  continued 
  by 
  Dr 
  James 
  G. 
  Needham. 
  His 
  report 
  

   on 
  the 
  work 
  done 
  at 
  Old 
  Forge 
  was 
  made 
  public 
  in 
  the 
  Entomolo- 
  

   gist's 
  report 
  for 
  1907. 
  Dr 
  Needham 
  is 
  now 
  engaged 
  in 
  completing 
  

   his 
  monographic 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  stone 
  flies 
  (Plecoptera), 
  a 
  work 
  

   which 
  should 
  be 
  ready 
  for 
  the 
  printer 
  some 
  time 
  during 
  the 
  com- 
  

   ing 
  winter. 
  Dr 
  Betten 
  has 
  made 
  good 
  progress 
  in 
  his 
  studies 
  of 
  

   the 
  caddis 
  flies 
  (Trichoptera), 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  expected 
  that 
  his 
  work 
  

   upon 
  this 
  group 
  will 
  soon 
  be 
  completed. 
  

  

  Publications. 
  Many 
  popular 
  economic 
  notices 
  have 
  been 
  con- 
  

   tributed 
  by 
  the 
  Entomologist 
  to 
  the 
  agricultural 
  and 
  local 
  press, 
  and 
  

   a 
  few 
  accounts 
  of 
  more 
  general 
  interest 
  have 
  been 
  widely 
  dissemin- 
  

   ated 
  through 
  the 
  agency 
  of 
  the 
  associated 
  press. 
  A 
  large 
  number 
  

   of 
  Cecidomyiidae, 
  reared 
  in 
  1907, 
  rendered 
  it 
  advisable 
  to 
  publish 
  

   preliminary 
  descriptions 
  of 
  these, 
  and 
  a 
  reprint 
  from 
  the 
  report 
  for 
  

   that 
  year, 
  entitled 
  New 
  Species 
  of 
  Cecidomyiidac 
  11, 
  was 
  issued 
  

   October 
  26, 
  1907. 
  Owing 
  to 
  numerous 
  delays 
  in 
  printing, 
  the 
  re- 
  

   port 
  for 
  last 
  year 
  did 
  not 
  appear 
  during 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  as 
  a 
  large 
  

   amount 
  of 
  time 
  was 
  necessarily 
  expended 
  upon 
  the 
  more 
  technical 
  

   part 
  in 
  carrying 
  it 
  through 
  the 
  press. 
  

  

  Collections. 
  The 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  collections 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  as 
  

   numerous 
  as 
  in 
  preceding 
  years, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  necessity 
  of 
  giving 
  

   more 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  arrangement 
  and 
  classification 
  of 
  material 
  

   on 
  hand. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  previously 
  unknown 
  Cecidomyiidae 
  were 
  

   reared 
  and 
  several 
  important 
  gaps 
  in 
  our 
  knowledge 
  respecting 
  this 
  

   group 
  filled. 
  

  

  Several 
  extremely 
  desirable 
  accessions, 
  aside 
  from 
  those 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  above, 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  our 
  biological 
  collections. 
  One 
  

   of 
  the 
  most 
  interesting 
  was 
  a 
  complete 
  series 
  representing 
  the 
  ^gg^ 
  

   larva, 
  pupa 
  and 
  adult 
  of 
  the 
  remarkable 
  Taeniorhynchus 
  

   perturbans 
  Walk., 
  generously 
  contributed 
  by 
  Mr 
  J. 
  Turner 
  

   Brakely 
  of 
  Hornerstown, 
  N. 
  J., 
  the 
  discoverer 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  stages 
  

   and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  active 
  in 
  working 
  out 
  the 
  life 
  history 
  of 
  this 
  

   previously 
  very 
  elusive 
  species. 
  

  

  Two 
  important 
  additions 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  exhibit 
  collec- 
  

   tions, 
  namely, 
  an 
  enlarged 
  model 
  of 
  the 
  onion 
  fly, 
  showing 
  the 
  

   Qgg, 
  maggot, 
  puparium, 
  adult 
  fly 
  and 
  an 
  onion 
  infested 
  by 
  maggots 
  ; 
  

   also 
  an 
  enlarged 
  model 
  of 
  the 
  cigar 
  case 
  bearer, 
  showing 
  its 
  work 
  

   upon 
  apple 
  leaves. 
  Both 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  executed 
  by 
  Mrs 
  Otto 
  

   Heidemann 
  of 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C. 
  

  

  