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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



of them can be found are so frequent that it has seemed quite 

 desirable that a list of these species be given with the places of 

 their publication. This has been prepared and will doubtless be 

 of aid to all interested in mycology. 



IV 



REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 

 The State Entomologist reports that a number of species of in- 

 sects have inflicted serious injuries upon both fruit and shade 

 trees. A most interesting phenomenon was the widespread and 

 abundant flight of the snow-white linden moth. An unusual 

 feature was the capture, within the limits of the city of Albany, 

 of two specimens of a small, green, subtropical cockroach. 



Fruit tree insects. Fruit trees in the western part of the State 

 were seriously injured in some sections by the cigar case bearer, 

 a species which is very rarely abundant enough to cause material 

 damage in the Hudson river valley. Depredations by this case 

 bearer were frequently associated with severe damage to a small 

 plant mite known as the blister mite. Western fruit growers were 

 also greatly exercised by the caterpillars of the white marked tus- 

 sock moth eating into the young fruit, a troublesome departure 

 from the normal habit. The fall cankerworm was unusually 

 abundant and destructive on eastern Long Island and in the vicinity 

 of New York city. The San Jose scale is one of the most serious 

 insect pests of the horticulturist. The warm, dry weather during 

 the latter part of the season was favorable to the unrestricted mul- 

 tiplication of this insect, and in some cases orchards have become 

 very badly affected. Our observations show that, as a rule, fruit 

 growers are experiencing much less trouble in keeping this scale 

 insect in check than was the case in earlier years. Early spring 

 applications of a lime-sulfur wash are giving good results. Some 

 parties are finding satisfaction from applications of a miscible or 

 so called " soluble " oil. We have preferred, as a rule, to confine 

 our recommendations to a material like the lime-sulfur wash, which 

 is not only effective but safe and also valuable in controlling 

 fungus diseases. Numerous observations have been made on the 

 above mentioned and other insects. 



It is gratifying to state that conditions in the Chautauqua grape 

 belt have materially improved, so far as injury by the grape root 

 worm is concerned. Though this insect is generally distributed 



