REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I914 1 3 



and horticultural gatherings, some of them being in cooperation 

 with the bureau of farmers institutes or county farm bureau agents. 

 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 and forest tent caterpillars, 

 the elm leaf beetles and June beetles, have been widely circulated 

 through the press. The more important publications of the year are 

 the Gall Midge Fauna of New England and several papers describ- 

 ing new genera and species of gall midges. 



Faunal studies. The investigations of earlier years along these 

 lines have been continued and there is now in manuscript a list of 

 the insects of the Adirondack region, based mostly upon material 

 in the State collections. There was some special collecting in the 

 Adirondacks in connection with the investigation of grasshoppers 

 noted above, and Assistant State Entomologist Young continued 

 his studies of the fauna at Wells, paying attention to the hitherto 

 largely neglected Mycetophilidae and obtaining a number of new 

 species, and also of known forms not previously recorded from the 

 State. 



Collections. A large series of insects was obtained by purchase 

 from the Kny-Scheerer Company of New York. These are for the 

 exhibit collection now being prepared and were selected primarily 

 because of their value in supplementing or elucidating the material 

 already at hand. The similarities obtaining among insects in differ- 

 ent sections of the world, the remarkable developments in certain 

 highly specialized forms, and the enormous size of some species are 

 well illustrated in these recent acquisitions. 



Through exchange with Mr C. W. Johnson of the Boston Museum 

 of Natural History, the State Museum has acquired a series of 83 

 species (listed elsewhere) of two-winged flies, mostly unrepresented 

 in the collections. These being determined by a well-known author- 

 ity in the group, constitute a notable addition to the State collections. 



We have been fortunate in receiving, through exchange, from 

 Prof. S.I. Kuwana of the board of plant inspection, Imperial Ministry 

 of Agriculture and Commerce, Tokio, Japan, specimens of 30 species 

 of Coccidae, a number of them representing species described by 

 Professor Kuwana and therefore particularly desirable. 



Accessions, such as the above, add greatly to the value of the 

 State collections, especially when the group is economically important, 

 as is the case with the Coccidae or scale insects. There have been 

 numerous additions during recent years in this family. Miss F. T. 



