(A) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. 



The two following papers are published in this place, for conveni- 

 ence of reference, and as partly supplementing the brief report of 

 the preceding year: 



THE INSECTS OF THE PAST YEAR, AND PROGRESS IN 



INSECT STUDIES. 



[ Bead before the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, at its Annual Meeting, Jan. 28, 1889. 



Gentlemen. — Instead of asking your attention at this time to the 

 consideration of some particular insect pest, as I have done on 

 former occasions, it will, I am sure, be of more interest if I offer a 

 brief review of the more important insect attacks of the past year 

 within the State of New York, coupled with the absence of those that 

 might have been expected to occur, and a few remarks on progress 

 made in insect studies. 



[Following were notices of the operations of the grain aphis, 

 Siphonophora avence (Fabr.); an attack, in July, of the hop aphis, 

 Phorodon humuli (Schrank) ; abundance of the apple-tree tent-cater- 

 pillar, Glisiocampa Americana Harris, in connection with the 

 neglected apple orchards of the state; a remarkable multiplication at 

 Kingsbury of the forest tent-caterpillar, Clisiocampa sylvatica; 

 absence of the usual injuries of the caterpillar of the white-marked 

 tussock-moth, Orgyia leucostigma (Sm.-Abb.); and two weevils, 

 Otiorhynchus ovatus (Linn.) and Silvanus Surinamensis (Linn.) 

 infesting dwelling-houses. These are omitted, having been included 

 in the introduction to the preceding (6th) Report of the 

 Entomologist.] 



The Chinch-bug in Western New Yobk. 



In my Second Report, several pages were devoted to observations 

 on the Chinch-bug, Blissus leucopterus (Say), in Jefferson county, in 

 the year 1883, where so large an acreage of grass and clover was 

 destroyed by it, as to occasion great alarm, and excite the fear that it 

 was destined to become one of the permanent pests of our state, as 

 it for a long time has been of several of the western states. 

 Professor Forbes, State Entomologist of Illinois, has written of it: 



