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Co., all of Geneva; E. Moody & Sons, D. F. McCarthy, both of 

 Lockport; F. R. Pierson Co., Tarry town; Lake View Nursery 

 Co., Sheridan. 



Voluntary observers. The work of the voluntary observers has 

 been continued. Their reports have largely a negative value this 

 season, owing to the unusually few insect depredations on crops 

 of agricultural importance. A number of valuable statements 

 have been placed on record and we fully expect, as the years con- 

 tinue, that these records will prove of considerable service in 

 throwing light on the oscillations of insect life. 



Acknowledgments. Special acknowledgments are due at this 

 time to Dr L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and to his staff, par- 

 ticularly to Messrs Coquillett and Dyar, who have been very kind 

 in furthering our investigations on mosquitos. Mention should 

 also be made of Dr J. B. Smith, state entomologist of New Jersey, 

 who generously donated for study, examples of rare species. 



Respectfully submitted 



Ephraim Porter Felt 



State Entomologist 

 Office of the State Entomologist 



Albany, Oct. 75, igo4 



