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even worse than in Albany, and yet the city authorities did nothing to 

 check it, except some spraying in public parks. The direct result of 

 severe and general injury to the trees was a great demand for spraying 

 apparatus operated by skilled men. One individual fitted up two power 

 spraying outfits of a most approved type, beginning operations with the 

 first last summer and with the second the present season. He has had 

 more work than he could attend to, and it is to be presumed that he has 

 lost no money in running them. 



Asparagus beetles (Crioceris asparagi, Linn., C. 12- 

 punctata Linn.) It has been my conviction for some time that the 

 common asparagus beetle was more generally distributed in the state 

 than is shown by previous records. The attention of voluntary 

 observers was called to this insect and specimens were received from 

 several localities. Last spring the 12 spotted form was taken in two or 

 three places about Albany, and this, in connection with its occurrence 

 near Rochester for a number of years, its discovery near Buffalo last 

 year and at East Amherst and Newark the present season would indicate 

 that this form has also attained quite a general distribution. Personal 

 observations have enabled me to locate both of these insects in several 

 places where they have hitherto been unrecorded. Crioceris 

 asparagi is now known to occur in the following localities : Albany 

 county, Albany, Menands ; Dutchess county, Poughkeepsie ; Erie 

 county, Buffalo, East Amherst ; Essex county, Ticonderoga ; 

 Genesee county, Batavia, Leroy; Greene county, Athens, Catskill; 

 Livingston county, Geneseo; Madison county, Lebanon, Oneida; Monroe 

 county, Brighton ; Oneida county, Maynard, Vernon, Whitesboro ; 

 Onondaga county, Syracuse; Ontario county, Geneva; Orange county, 

 Cornwall, Westpoint; Oswego county, Oswego, Oswego Center; Putnam 

 county, Garrisons; Rensselaer county, Troy; Saratoga county, 

 Mechanicville ; Ulster county, Kingston ; Wayne county, Clyde, 

 Newark ; Yates county, Crosby. Crioceris 12-punctata is 

 known to occur in the following localities : Albany county, Albany ; Erie 

 county, Buffalo, East Amherst; Genesee county, Batavia, Leroy; Kings 

 county, Brooklyn; Monroe county, Brighton; Onondaga county, 

 Syracuse; Oswego county, Oswego Center; Queens county, Glendale, 

 Richmond Hill; Tompkins county, Ithaca; Wayne county, Newark; 

 Yates county, Crosby. Dr James Fletcher, entomologist of the Central 

 experimental farm of Canada, informs me that both species of asparagus 

 beetles are abundant in the Niagara district and as far back as Hamilton, 

 Ontario. 



