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PAGH. 



INTEODUCTORY 215 



No serious insect attacks, or importation of insect pests during 

 the year, 215. Abundance of the apple-tree tent-caterpillar, 215. The 

 neglected orchards of the State, 215. The failure of the fruit crop 

 of the State ascribable largely to seasonal conditions and fungoid 

 attacks, 215. Exemption from the usual injury from the white- 

 marked tussock-moth caterpillars, 216. Injuries to corn from the 

 corn-worm, 216. Increasing depredations from the bud-worm, 216. 

 Spread of the apple-leaf Bucculatrix in "Western New York, 216. 

 A New York locality for Chloropisca prolijica, and probable dis- 

 covery of its breeding grounds, 216. Unusual abundance on Long 

 Island of the northern- lady-bird, and the 12-spotted Diabrotica, 



217. Continued northern progress of the elm-leaf beetle, 217. 

 Studies of the bean-weevil, 217. Prevalence of the grain aphis 

 in rye fields in Eastern New York, 217. Unlooked for, and inex- 

 plicable appearance of the 17-year Cicada on the Hudson river, 



218. Collection of insects made in Keene valley, in the several 

 orders, with notice of the more interesting forms, 219. The contri- 

 butions to the department, 220. A collection purchased, con- 

 taining rarities, 220. Need of assistance in field work and in 

 office duties, 221. Contents of the Appendix, 221. Courtesies 

 acknowledged, 222. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS 223 



AuLACOMERUs LUTESCENs, the Poplar saw-fly 223 



May prove to be identical with Cladius vioninalis of Europe, 223. 

 Comparison of the two made by Mr. J. G. Jack, 223. The male of 

 the European species needed to determine the question, 224. 

 Variation in the venation of the Tenthredinid'ee, 224. The larval 

 habits of viminalis as given by Dr. Jacobs, differ from those of 

 lutescens, 224. Note, establishing the identity o:^ the two, 224. 



