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this fact is Ruffi< lent in itself to make it particularly useful 

 to agriculturists, as well as i<> others by whom it will 

 doubtless be consulted, who do uol possess the time or the 

 facilities for reference to entomological subjects that are of 

 importance to them. My thanks are due t< Mr. Ballon, 

 for the careful way in which the work lias been compiled, 

 and it is due to him, also, to place the 1'act <>n record that 

 the book derives an additional value, which will be recog- 

 nized t<> an increasing extent as it comes into general use, 

 from the circumstance thai it presents information that is 

 the outcome of Ins special work and observation in the 

 Wrst Indies information that in many casfcs relates to 

 forms of insect life, both injurious and beneficial, that were 

 not known previously to be of economic importance. 



(X/^C^ 



/lA/cxte. 



Commissioner of Agriculture 



for the West [ndies. 



