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and the corn-worm wa3 absent, the clover- 

 seed midge has covered a more extensive ter- 

 ritory, although its ravages do not appear to 

 be increasing where it has been abundant, 

 and the punctured cloyer-leaf weevil has 

 steadily and rapidly extended its area of op- 

 erations. The Colorado potato-beetle seems 

 to be diminishing. The chinch-bug was re- 

 marked for the first time in injurious num- 

 bers in the State of New York. The sub- 

 stance of the report consists chiefly of full 

 descriptions of the injurious species of in- 

 sects, accompanied by as many illustrations 

 as the State printers found it convenient to 

 insert. On this subject, Dr. Lintner well 

 remarks that many years must elapse before 

 good figures of any of our common and 

 more destructive insect pests can be re- 

 peated so often that a general familiarity 

 with them and the species that they rep- 

 resent in nature shall render their further 

 repetition useless. 



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