REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1907 AI 
Experience has shown that it is comparatively easy to recognize 
the presence of this insect, particularly in late fall or early spring, 
at the time the young grubs have just commenced their operations. 
The point of entrance is then usually indicated by a slight scar 
from which sap may be oozing, and a short filament of borings 
dangling therefrom. Infested trees should be carefully examined 
for all such indications, the young borers removed and the wounds 
carefully covered with paint, tar or other protective material. A 
little time bestowed upon the trees in late fall or early spring should 
result in practical immunity from injury by this destructive borer. 
Miscellaneous 
Wititeonubsm (io achmoste mia tusica . Mronl)). = skits 
species and certain of its allies annually cause considerable damage 
to various growing crops. The occurrence of these destructive 
erubs in grass lands, strawberry beds, potato and cornfields and 
similar places, is a matter of common observation. The past sum- 
mer our attention was called to a unique form of injury, in that 
these grubs had destroyed at the State nurseries located at Waw- 
beek, Franklin co., N. Y., some 2500 to 3000 one and two year 
old white and Scotch pine seedlings. This form of injury was also 
observed by State Forester C. R. Pettis in the nurseries located at 
Saranac Inn. State Forester E.S. Woodruff, who was at Wawbeek 
at the time of the trouble, informs the writer that one grub would 
destroy three or four seedlings before being detected. ‘The first 
year seedlings were usually eaten off near the ground and the 
leaves apparently drawn down into the burrow and devoured sub- 
sequently. There are a number of records of young trees being 
injured by white grubs, though this appears to be the first instance 
where this pest has been known to attack the roots of conifers. 
Various collections in this section of the country show that our 
MGs TCOMmmMOonsspecies On Lacinostenia isl. nusca Pronk. lt 
is by far the best represented of any in the State collections, and 
the extensive series of trap lanterns operated at Cornell University 
during 1889 and 1892 show that 83¢ of the June beetles captured 
were referable to this form. ‘These insects are so familiar as to 
hardly necessitate description. The adult bectle is a little less than 
an inch in length, thick-bodied, broadly rounded at both extremities 
and usually a mahogany-brown color. The familiar white grub 1s 
well known as a stout, curved larva lying upon its side and com- 
monly found about the roots of grasses or in strawberry beds. The 
