SECOND REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1905 



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Collections. Large and valuable additions have been made to 

 the State collection during the past season. The total is about 

 15,000 pinned specimens besides a considerable amount of very 

 desirable biologic material. Messrs Needham and Betten secured 

 a large number of specimens at Old Forge, and their work was 

 admirably supplemented by Assistant Entomologist Young, who 

 spent a month collecting in the Adirondacks, specializing in the 

 Hymenoptera and Diptera. Collections have been further enriched 

 by Mr Young's donating some 3000 Coleoptera, many of them rare 

 and a considerable portion of them new to the State collection. 

 The general condition of the collection has been much improved 

 during the year. Mr Young has devoted a large share of his time to 

 classifying the Hymenoptera and Diptera, while Assistant Nixon 

 has given most of his attention to the Coleoptera. 



Voluntary observers. The voluntary observers have continued 

 to send reports throughout the growing season and a number of 

 valuable facts have in this way been brought to our notice These 

 reports, with the advance of years, will constitute a record of the 

 abundance and destructiveness of various pests in New York State, 

 which should prove of service to all interested in securing data on 

 insect outbreaks and causes controlling the same. 



General. A well sustained interest in the work of the office is 

 indicated by a constantly increasing correspondence. The reports 

 of voluntary observers, list of publications and contributions to the 

 State collection contained in the Entomologist's report, are more 

 detailed records of these activities of the office. 



V 



REPORT ON ZOOLOGY 



The work of the Zoologist during the winter was mainly upon 

 the preparation of a catalogue of the Myriopoda of the State. 

 During the past two years considerable collecting in this group 

 has been done and all of the specimens thus obtained, with the 

 exception of the large genus Lithobius, were identified. Owing 

 to the lack of any recent work in English dealing with the morphol- 

 ogy of the Myriopoda, it was decided to extend the work beyond 

 a mere catalogue of the species and hence drawings of anatomic 

 details important in classification were made. Some field work 

 in the southern counties is still necessary to the completion of this 

 work. 



