REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



[Read before the Western New York Horticultural Society at its Annual 



Meeting, January 26th, 1893.] 



In grateful i-ecognition of the tribute paid b}^ this society to the 

 science of economic entomology, in giving place in its annual convoca- 

 tions, amid so many papers of a high order of excellence, and discus- 

 sions replete with interest and instruction, to a " Report on Entomol- 

 ogy " your committee takes pleasure in presenting the following report : 



[Remarks on the remarkable exemption during the past year from 

 insect injuries and its probable causes, with reference to several species, 

 are given on pages 293, 294 of this Report.] 



Vaeious Pests of the Year. 



Among the insect, demonstrations of the year, the following may 

 deserve a few words of notice at the present time. 



[Notice of several of these demonstrations, as of the fall tent-worm, 

 Hyphantria cunea; the green-striped maple worm, Dryocampa rubi- 

 cunda; the cabbage caterpillar, Plusia hrassicce; the canker-worm, Ani- 

 sopteryx vernata; the apple-worm of the codling-moth, Carpocapsa 

 potnoneUa; the white grub, Lachnosterna fusca; the elm-leaf beetle, 

 Galemcella xanthomelmna ; a gooseberry pest, Systena frontalis; the 

 Colorado potato-beetle, Doryphora decemUneato ; the plum curculio, 

 Conotrachehis nenuphar; and a house-infesting beetle, Otiorhynchiis 

 ovatus, are contained in General Notes for the Year on pages 295, 

 296, and 297 of this report and are therefore omitted here.] 



Passing from these general notes, may I ask your attention to a 

 more detailed notice of three insect enemies of fruit and forest and 

 shade trees, which are, at the present, subjects of special study, in the 

 hope of discovery ^f means by which their serious ravages may be 

 arrested. 



The Gypsy Moth. 



Notwithstanding the man;f insect pests of the first rank that are 

 preying upon and devouring the products of the orchards, vineyards, 

 nurseries, gardens, fields, and forests of the State of New York, it is a 

 cause of thankfulness that another insect pest which the people of an 

 adjoining State have been for the past two years, under liberal State 



