14 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Gall Insects now in press has resulted in much interesting material 
being submitted for study. This is true of the work of several gall 
wasps or cynipids, namely, the ribbed bud gall and the white oak 
club gall, deformations which are occasionally very abundant and 
injurious. Brief discussions of the work and biology of these species 
appear below. 
There have been some exceptionally interesting gall midges sub- 
mitted for study, namely, a small collection from India and a larger 
one of mostly reared species from the Philippine islands. This 
material has been worked up, that relating to the former has been 
published and the manuscript of the latter has been submitted 
for publication in the Philippine Journal of Science, together with 
a complete tabulation for the families, tribes and genera of the 
Itonididae, which latter should do much toward placing the classifi- 
cation of this large and very diverse group upon a thoroughly 
scientific basis. 
Lectures. The Entomologist has delivered a number of lectures 
on insects, mostly economic species, before various agricultural and 
horticultural gatherings, some of these being in cooperation with the 
Bureau of Farmers Institutes or county farm bureau agents. Several 
lectures have also been given under the auspices of local welfare 
associations. 
Publications. A number of brief popular accounts of the more 
injurious insects have been prepared and widely circulated among 
county farm bureau and New York State Food Supply Commission 
agents, the latter as a part of the Insect Pest Survey and Information 
service. 
Owing to delay in printing the report for 1916, the only State 
Museum Bulletin from this office issued during the past year is 
No. 194, Household and Camp Insects, briefly mentioned above. 
Several important papers have appeared in current entomological 
journals, such as “* New Western Gall Midges’”’ in the Journal of 
the New York Entomological Society, ““ New North American Gall 
Midges ”’ and “ New Indian Gall Midges,” both in Entomological 
News, and “ Distribution of Gall Midges ” in the Proceedings of the 
National Academy of Sciences. 
Collections. Additions to the state collections are constantly 
being made, especially of specimens representing the early stages 
and work of various injurious forms, since biological material of this 
character greatly facilitates the identification of insects and is 
indispensable in a well-prepared exhibit illustrating the life histories 
of various species. 
