﻿REPORT 
  

  

  Office 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist 
  

   Albany, 
  December 
  15, 
  1897 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  

  

  Gentlemen 
  : 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  of 
  presenting 
  my 
  13th 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  

   injurious 
  and 
  other 
  insects 
  of 
  the 
  state 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  

   ending 
  Sept. 
  30, 
  1897, 
  containing 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  observations 
  

   and 
  studies 
  made 
  by 
  me 
  during 
  the 
  year, 
  together 
  with 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   details 
  pertaining 
  to 
  my 
  official 
  work. 
  

  

  Copies 
  of 
  the 
  nth 
  report 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  1895, 
  were 
  received 
  last 
  

   January, 
  and 
  about 
  600 
  have 
  been 
  distributed 
  to 
  societies, 
  to 
  students 
  

   in 
  entomology 
  in 
  this 
  country 
  and 
  abroad, 
  and 
  to 
  agriculturists 
  and 
  

   others 
  to 
  whom 
  its 
  contents 
  should 
  be 
  of 
  interest 
  and 
  value. 
  

  

  The 
  minor 
  publications 
  made 
  during 
  the 
  year, 
  usually 
  in 
  reply 
  

   to 
  inquiries 
  of 
  insect 
  attacks 
  of 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  general 
  interest, 
  and 
  

   contributed 
  to 
  agricultural 
  or 
  local 
  newspapers, 
  were 
  40 
  in 
  number. 
  

   Abstracts 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  appendix 
  to 
  this 
  report, 
  after 
  the 
  

   manner 
  adopted 
  in 
  preceding 
  reports. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  of 
  

   these 
  notices 
  are 
  published 
  in 
  full, 
  or 
  extended 
  in 
  the 
  annual 
  reports. 
  

   A 
  list 
  of 
  earlier 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  entomologist 
  briefly 
  summarized, 
  

   501 
  in 
  number, 
  extending 
  from 
  1870 
  to 
  1888, 
  may 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   volume, 
  entitled 
  Bibliogj-aphy 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  cont7'ibutions 
  to 
  

   American 
  economic 
  entomology^ 
  pubHshed 
  in 
  1896 
  by 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  agriculture, 
  division 
  of 
  entomology. 
  

  

  The 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  state 
  collection 
  of 
  insects 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  as 
  large 
  

   as 
  in 
  previous 
  years, 
  as 
  no 
  special 
  time 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  field 
  collections* 
  

  

  