FOURTH REPORT 
ON TIIK 
NOXIOUS AND OTHER INSECTS 
OF TIIE 
STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
By ASA FITCII, M. D., 
ENTOMOLOGIST OF THE NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT. 
Copy-right secured, to the Author. 
Executive Committee of the New-Yorlc State Agricultural Society: 
The interval between the issuing of the volume of the Trans¬ 
actions for 1856 and the going to press of the volume for 1857 
is so brief, that it does not enable mo to furnish so full a Re¬ 
port on this as on previous occasions, or to give to all of the 
topics of the present Report so careful an examination as I 
desire. In my last Report an account was given of all the 
American insects at present known as being injurious to Fruit 
trees, both cultivated and wild, embracing a brief history and 
description of each species, and a detailed statement of any facts 
known to me in addition to what had previously been recorded, 
which would aid in rendering our knowledge of any of these 
species more complete. Next in order comes the insects inju¬ 
rious to Forest trees, and these I had expected to complete in 
the present Report; but in consequence of the shortness of the 
time at my disposal, I am able to finish only a portion of this 
subject. The present Report is therefore limited to those spe¬ 
cies which infest the pine and other evergreen trees. All those 
insects of our country which are at present known as depreda- 
