REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 770 



[Schizura concinna] are present in small numbers and 

 confined to two or three orchards. The eggs of the appletree 

 tent-caterpillar occur in large numbers, but I fail to find any of 

 the forest tent-caterpillar. Aug. 12. A small webworm, 

 Cacoecia species, is doing a great deal of damage to maples* 

 Aug. 20. 



Erie county (M. F. Adams, Buffalo) — Mourning cloak butter- 

 flies [Euvanessa antiopa] were flying Ap. 11, and red 

 admirals [Vanessa atalanta] were flying the 13th. The 

 egg masses of the white marked tussock moth [Notolophus 

 leucostigma] are abundant in many localities, and their 

 ravages will probably equal those of 1895. May 10. The young 

 grubs of the willow snout beetle [Oryptorhynchus 1 a p - 

 a t h i] were found abundant in Carolina poplars just beneath 

 the bark. The mines are irregular, winding and extend upward. 

 Goes pulchra is destroying young hickory. May 21. May 19, 

 Saperda fayi had pupated. May 20 the males of the Put- 

 nam scale [Aspidiotus ancylus]' were emerging. The 

 euonymus scale [Chionaspis euonymijis quite injurious 

 in this section. May 25. Carpenter worms [Prionoxystus 

 robiniae] were found in the larva and pupa stages in the 

 ash, and to all appearances those which were to emerge this 

 year had already pupated. May 29. June 5 I took adults of 

 Podosesia syringae ovipositing in Fraxinus ex- 

 celsior and on the same date adults of Neoclytus ery- 

 throcephalus were emerging from a dead tree of the same 

 species. The appearances indicate that there will be an unusu- 

 ally large number of the locust borers this season. June 7. 

 Observation in the near vicinity of Buffalo shows that from 

 6fc to 8fo of the wheat has been destroyed by Hessian fly [C e c i - 

 domyia destructor]. June 11. Graphisurus 

 fasciatus, Xyloterus colonus and Typocerus 

 zebratus have been emerging from Quercus rubra, 

 the first on the 18th and the latter two June 14. Saperda 

 fayi also emerged on the latter date from various species of 

 Crataegus. The willow snout beetle was ovipositing on cotton 



