﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  I908 
  4I 
  

  

  NOTES 
  FOR 
  THE 
  YEAR 
  

  

  A 
  number 
  of 
  insects 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  to 
  attention 
  during 
  the 
  

   past 
  season. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  outbreaks 
  are 
  noticed 
  

   in 
  the 
  following 
  paragraph. 
  The 
  large, 
  greenish 
  caterpillar 
  of 
  the 
  

   imperial 
  moth, 
  B 
  a 
  s 
  i 
  1 
  o 
  n 
  a 
  i 
  m 
  p 
  er 
  i 
  a 
  1 
  i 
  s 
  Driu 
  y, 
  was 
  unusu- 
  

   ally 
  abundant 
  during 
  August 
  and 
  September, 
  and 
  on 
  Staten 
  Island 
  

   it 
  was 
  credited 
  with 
  being 
  somewhat 
  injurious. 
  Ordinarily 
  this 
  

   species 
  is 
  so 
  rare 
  as 
  to 
  attract 
  no 
  attention. 
  The 
  scurfy 
  bark 
  louse, 
  

   Chionaspis 
  furfura 
  Fitch, 
  has 
  been 
  abundant 
  in 
  several 
  

   localities. 
  This 
  species 
  has 
  attracted 
  more 
  notice 
  in 
  recent 
  years, 
  

   partly 
  because 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  has 
  increased 
  

   popular 
  interest 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  all 
  Coccidae. 
  The 
  scurfy 
  scale, 
  

   however, 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  more 
  destructive 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  

   five 
  years 
  than 
  the 
  equally 
  common 
  oyster 
  scale, 
  Lepidosaphes 
  

   u 
  1 
  m 
  i 
  Linn. 
  

  

  Maple 
  trees 
  have 
  been 
  injured 
  somewhat 
  in 
  various 
  localities 
  by 
  

   the 
  cottony 
  maple 
  scale, 
  P 
  u 
  1 
  v 
  i 
  n 
  a 
  r 
  i 
  a 
  i 
  n 
  n 
  u 
  m 
  e 
  r 
  a 
  b 
  i 
  1 
  i 
  s. 
  

   Rathv., 
  and 
  also 
  by 
  the 
  false 
  maple 
  scale, 
  Phenacoccus 
  

   a 
  c 
  e 
  r 
  i 
  c 
  o 
  1 
  a 
  King. 
  Both 
  of 
  these 
  species 
  are 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  

   injurious 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  though 
  the 
  false 
  maple 
  

   scale 
  was 
  sufficiently 
  abundant 
  to 
  attract 
  attention 
  at 
  Johns- 
  

   town. 
  The 
  elm 
  bark 
  louse, 
  Gossyparia 
  spuria 
  Mod., 
  oc- 
  

   curred 
  in 
  numbers 
  on 
  elms 
  in 
  both 
  Brooklyn 
  and 
  Mt 
  \>rnon 
  and 
  

   also 
  at 
  Schenectady. 
  This 
  latter 
  pest 
  is 
  rather 
  generally 
  distributed 
  

   in 
  the 
  eastern 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  at 
  least 
  and, 
  as 
  pointed 
  out 
  by 
  

   the 
  writer 
  earlier, 
  the 
  English 
  sparrow 
  is 
  probably 
  an 
  important 
  

   factor 
  in 
  carrying 
  the 
  pest 
  from 
  tree 
  to 
  tree 
  in 
  our 
  cities. 
  

  

  Fruit 
  tree 
  insects 
  

   Gipsy 
  moth 
  (Porthetria 
  dispar 
  Linn.). 
  This 
  insect 
  

   has 
  not 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  established 
  itself 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  State, 
  

   though 
  a 
  marked 
  advance 
  in 
  our 
  direction 
  was 
  discovered 
  during 
  

   the 
  season, 
  small 
  colonies 
  having 
  been 
  found 
  at 
  Springfield 
  and 
  

   Greenfield, 
  Mass., 
  both 
  localities 
  about 
  50 
  miles 
  from 
  our 
  State 
  

   line. 
  The 
  work 
  against 
  this 
  insect 
  in 
  Massachusetts, 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  

   our 
  investigations 
  in 
  midsummer, 
  is 
  being 
  most 
  vigorously 
  pushed, 
  

   particular 
  stress 
  being 
  laid 
  upon 
  preventing 
  its 
  further 
  spread. 
  

   This 
  species, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  repeatedly 
  explained, 
  spreads 
  slowly, 
  being 
  

   dependent 
  largely 
  upon 
  the 
  activity 
  of 
  man 
  and 
  beast 
  for 
  convey- 
  

  

  