10 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Lectures. The Entomologist has delivered a number of lectures 

 upon insects, mostly economic forms, before various agricultural 

 and horticultural gatherings, some of them being in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Farmers Institutes. Several lectures have also 

 been given under the auspices of local improvement associations. 



Publications. A number of brief popular accounts regarding 

 such common pests as the house fly, apple tent caterpillar and 

 forest tent caterpillar have been widely circulated through the 

 press. The more important publications, aside from the report of 

 last year, are : The Gall Midge Fauna of Western North America; 

 Studies in Itonididae and several papers describing new species of 

 gall midges. 



Removal. The moving of the collections and their establish- 

 ment in the new quarters in the Education Building involved a large 

 amount of work, which necessarily restricted activities along other 

 lines and must continue so to do until the insects are permanently 

 rearranged. The removal was accomplished with practically no 

 breakage or loss of either specimens or equipment and with com- 

 paratively little hindrance to the regular office routine. 



Faunal studies. This phase of entomology has received some 

 attention almost from the establishment of the office and has an 

 important bearing upon practical work, since data of this character 

 make possible the fixing of boundaries beyond which there is little 

 probability of injurious species maintaining themselves in numbers. 

 Earlier unpublished studies have resulted in the Entomologist fixing 

 approximate boundaries for the various life zones in the State. It 

 has been his policy for some years to collect in representative areas 

 whenever opportunity offered and much valuable material has been 

 secured in this manner. Collections in the Adirondacks, begun by 

 the late Dr J. A. Lintner, have been continued. The past summer 

 the Entomologist collected in several Adirondack localities, spending 

 four days on or near Mount Marcy, while Assistant State Ento- 

 mologist Young continued his studies of the fauna at Wells. These 

 data are now being prepared for publication. 



Collections. A special effort has been made the past season to 

 secure specimens of the work and early stages of various injurious 

 forms, since biological material is a most important component of 

 economic collections and indispensable in elucidating the habits and 

 life histories of the various species. The State collection now con- 

 tains a large amount of such material, invaluable because of the 

 associated data. Many microscopic preparations of smaller insects 



