﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  265 
  

  

  Odo7itota 
  scutellaris. 
  Packard 
  : 
  5th 
  Rept. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Entomolog. 
  Comm., 
  

  

  1890, 
  p. 
  367 
  (in 
  New 
  England). 
  

   Odojitota 
  dorsalis. 
  Hopkins 
  : 
  Bull. 
  16 
  W. 
  Va. 
  Agricul. 
  Expt. 
  Stat,, 
  1891, 
  

  

  p. 
  87, 
  PI. 
  13, 
  fig. 
  i,a-d 
  ; 
  in 
  Canad. 
  Entomol., 
  xxviii, 
  1896, 
  p. 
  248 
  

  

  (food-plants, 
  destructive 
  in 
  W. 
  Va). 
  

   Odoniota 
  suturalis. 
  Lintner 
  : 
  loth 
  Rept. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  Y., 
  1895, 
  p. 
  369 
  

  

  (parasitized 
  by 
  Derostemis). 
  

   Odontota 
  dorsalis. 
  Lintner: 
  nth 
  Rept. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  Y., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  269 
  (on 
  

  

  apple). 
  

   Odontota 
  dorsalis. 
  Blatchlev 
  : 
  in 
  Psyche, 
  vii, 
  1896, 
  p. 
  437 
  (in 
  Indiana). 
  

   Odontota 
  dorsalis. 
  Chittenden 
  : 
  in 
  Bull. 
  9 
  New 
  Ser., 
  Divis. 
  Entomol, 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agricul 
  , 
  1897, 
  pp. 
  22-23 
  (herbaceous 
  food-plants). 
  

   Odontota 
  dorsalis. 
  Webster: 
  in 
  Bull. 
  74 
  Ohio 
  Agricul. 
  Expt. 
  Stat., 
  

  

  1897, 
  p. 
  35 
  (abundance 
  in 
  Ohio 
  and 
  Kentucky). 
  

   ■Odontota 
  dorsalis. 
  Wickham 
  : 
  in 
  Canad. 
  Entomol., 
  xxix, 
  1897, 
  p. 
  60, 
  

  

  fig. 
  10 
  (in 
  Canada). 
  

  

  This 
  insect, 
  although 
  quite 
  abundant 
  at 
  times 
  in 
  certain 
  localities, 
  

  

  had 
  not 
  occurred 
  in 
  the 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  me 
  in 
  Albany 
  and 
  Schoharie 
  

  

  counties, 
  or 
  in 
  occasional 
  collecting 
  in 
  other 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  From 
  

  

  the 
  abundance 
  with 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  reported 
  below, 
  upon 
  the 
  locust, 
  it 
  may 
  

  

  have 
  been 
  overlooked 
  by 
  me 
  in 
  my 
  limited 
  examinations 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  

  

  fauna 
  of 
  that 
  food-plant. 
  Dr. 
  Fitch, 
  writing 
  in 
  1858, 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  

  

  never 
  met 
  with 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  although 
  common 
  in 
  

  

  the 
  southern. 
  

  

  The 
  Insect 
  on 
  Long 
  Island. 
  

  

  Examples 
  were 
  received 
  by 
  me 
  on 
  August 
  31, 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Harrison 
  G. 
  

   Dyar, 
  which 
  had 
  just 
  been 
  taken 
  by 
  him 
  from 
  locust 
  trees 
  {Robinia) 
  at 
  

   Yaphank, 
  L. 
  I. 
  The 
  leaves 
  had 
  been 
  eaten 
  (PI. 
  VIII, 
  fig. 
  2) 
  until 
  they 
  

   bore 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  elm 
  leaves 
  attacked 
  by 
  the 
  elm-leaf 
  beetle, 
  and 
  

   as 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  severe 
  injury, 
  the 
  foliage 
  was 
  rapidly 
  falling. 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  re-examination 
  of 
  the 
  trees 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Dyar 
  a 
  week 
  later 
  — 
  a 
  road- 
  

   side 
  row 
  of 
  about 
  twenty 
  in 
  number 
  and 
  patches 
  of 
  locust 
  shrubs 
  in 
  a 
  

   woods 
  opposite 
  — 
  all 
  the 
  remaining 
  foliage 
  had 
  turned 
  brown. 
  To 
  the 
  

   east 
  and 
  the 
  west 
  of 
  this 
  locality 
  only 
  a 
  slight 
  injury 
  was 
  noticeable, 
  while 
  

   to 
  the 
  northward, 
  in 
  another 
  row 
  of 
  locusts 
  between 
  two 
  fields, 
  the 
  leaves 
  

   were 
  still 
  green 
  and 
  apparently 
  uninjured. 
  

  

  In 
  West 
  Virginia. 
  

   Dr. 
  A. 
  D. 
  Hopkins 
  has 
  written 
  on 
  the 
  abundance 
  and 
  injuries 
  of 
  this 
  

   Chrysomelid 
  as 
  observed 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  1890, 
  at 
  Morgantown, 
  W. 
  Va., 
  and 
  

   its 
  vicinity. 
  In 
  his 
  bulletin 
  on 
  ^'Insect 
  Ravages 
  — 
  Yellow 
  Locust" 
  

   {sup. 
  cit.), 
  he 
  has 
  stated 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  ^ 
  

  

  " 
  This 
  beetle 
  was 
  extremely 
  plentiful 
  on 
  the 
  locust 
  leaves 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  

   the 
  investigation 
  was 
  being 
  made 
  (early 
  August), 
  — 
  as 
  many 
  as 
  eight 
  or 
  

  

  