﻿REPORT, 
  

  

  Office 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  ) 
  

   Albany, 
  December 
  14, 
  1896. 
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  To 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  : 
  

  

  Gentlemen. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  of 
  presenting 
  to 
  your 
  Board 
  my 
  

   Twelfth 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Injurious 
  and 
  Other 
  Insects 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  

   York. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  department 
  has 
  been 
  diHgently 
  and 
  successfully 
  prose- 
  

   cuted 
  during 
  the 
  year. 
  A 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  insects 
  have 
  been 
  studied, 
  

   most 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  of 
  economic 
  importance 
  to 
  the 
  farmer, 
  the 
  fruit-grower, 
  

   or 
  to 
  the 
  general 
  public. 
  Among 
  these 
  special 
  attention 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  

   the 
  army-worm 
  in 
  consideration 
  of 
  its 
  distribution 
  and 
  destructiveness 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  larger 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  to 
  an 
  extent 
  not 
  

   previously 
  recorded. 
  In 
  the 
  pages 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  elm-leaf 
  beetle 
  will 
  be 
  

   found 
  interesting 
  observations 
  upon 
  the 
  long 
  continuance, 
  in 
  successive 
  

   broods, 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  in 
  this 
  vicinity 
  — 
  quite 
  at 
  variance 
  with 
  what 
  has 
  

   hitherto 
  been 
  ascribed 
  to 
  it. 
  Instead 
  of 
  the 
  beetle 
  going 
  into 
  retreat 
  for 
  

   hibernation 
  in 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  August, 
  the 
  insect 
  has 
  remained 
  with 
  us 
  

   from 
  its 
  first 
  appearance 
  in 
  May 
  until 
  into 
  November 
  as 
  active 
  larvae 
  and 
  

   transforming 
  in 
  its 
  subsequent 
  stages. 
  Quite 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  

   attacks 
  that 
  have 
  come 
  under 
  observation, 
  have 
  been 
  noticed 
  briefly 
  in 
  

   " 
  Notes 
  on 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  Insects 
  of 
  the 
  Year 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York," 
  

   and 
  others, 
  more 
  fully, 
  in 
  their 
  proper 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  report. 
  

  

  Work 
  upon 
  the 
  classification, 
  arrangement, 
  and 
  labeling 
  of 
  the 
  Collec- 
  

   tion 
  has 
  been 
  continued. 
  Some 
  progress 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  prepara- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  a 
  biological 
  collection 
  in 
  the 
  limited 
  time 
  that 
  could 
  be 
  spared 
  

   ^ 
  13; 
  

  

  