﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  I908 
  

  

  53 
  

  

  western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  city, 
  where 
  the 
  trees 
  are 
  somewhat 
  abundant, 
  

   was 
  badly 
  injured 
  by 
  the 
  insect, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  in 
  this 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  

   city 
  where 
  the 
  moths 
  were 
  most 
  numerous. 
  It 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  there 
  

   were 
  comparatively 
  few 
  extensive 
  flights. 
  The 
  causes 
  for 
  this 
  ex- 
  

   cessive 
  abundance 
  are 
  probably 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  scarcity 
  of 
  bird 
  

   life, 
  in 
  the 
  temporary 
  reduction 
  of 
  native 
  parasites 
  and 
  possiblv 
  in 
  

   part 
  to 
  unusually 
  favorable 
  climatic 
  conditions. 
  

  

  The 
  extensive 
  defoliations 
  by 
  this 
  species, 
  recorded 
  in 
  our 
  report 
  

   for 
  last 
  year/ 
  have 
  been 
  continued 
  and 
  large 
  areas 
  in 
  the 
  Catskills 
  

   have 
  suffered 
  severely. 
  Reports 
  of 
  injury 
  in 
  the 
  towns 
  of 
  Harden- 
  

   burg, 
  Shandaken 
  and 
  Ladleton, 
  Ulster 
  co., 
  indicated 
  defoliation 
  of 
  

   extensive 
  tracts 
  of 
  beech. 
  There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  severe 
  injury 
  

   by 
  this 
  pest 
  from 
  DeBruce, 
  Sullivan 
  co. 
  This 
  species 
  was 
  like- 
  

   wise 
  destructive 
  to 
  beeches 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondacks, 
  Forester 
  E. 
  S. 
  

  

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  Fig. 
  15 
  Snow-white 
  linden 
  moth, 
  larva 
  on 
  twig. 
  

   (Original) 
  

  

  Fig. 
  16 
  Snow-white 
  linden 
  moth 
  

   pupae, 
  enlarged. 
  (Original) 
  

  

  Woodruff 
  reporting 
  that 
  the 
  beeches 
  on 
  the 
  John 
  Brown 
  tract 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  2, 
  ranges 
  12 
  and 
  13, 
  lots 
  3 
  to 
  8 
  were 
  defoliated, 
  the 
  stripped 
  

   area 
  being 
  about 
  3 
  miles 
  long 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  width 
  of 
  >4 
  mile 
  at 
  

   one 
  end 
  and 
  i 
  mile 
  at 
  the 
  other. 
  The 
  caterpillars 
  fed 
  at 
  first 
  

   upon 
  young 
  beeches, 
  then 
  stripped 
  the 
  older 
  beeches, 
  practically 
  

   skeletonizing 
  the 
  foliage, 
  and 
  then 
  turned 
  to 
  birches 
  and 
  maples, 
  

   eating 
  holes 
  in 
  the 
  foliage 
  of 
  the 
  latter. 
  The 
  lower 
  limbs 
  of 
  the 
  

   trees 
  on 
  the 
  defoliated 
  area 
  bore 
  numerous 
  empty 
  pupal 
  cases 
  in 
  

   September, 
  and 
  irregular 
  egg 
  masses 
  occurred 
  in 
  abundance 
  upon 
  

   the 
  bark 
  of 
  beech, 
  birch 
  and 
  ma])le. 
  The 
  eggs 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  are 
  

   deposited 
  at 
  an 
  oblique 
  angle 
  to 
  the 
  supporting 
  surface, 
  are 
  about 
  

   I 
  mm 
  in 
  length, 
  barrel-shaped 
  and 
  light 
  brown, 
  with 
  a 
  conspicu- 
  

   ous 
  dark 
  salmon 
  ring 
  at 
  the 
  extremity. 
  They 
  occur 
  in 
  irregular 
  

  

  IN. 
  Y. 
  State 
  Ent. 
  23d 
  Rep't, 
  1907. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  Mus. 
  Bui. 
  124, 
  p, 
  23-3{ 
  

  

  