4 INTRODUCTION. 



shall be able to obtain additional facts to render our account of 

 these species more complete and exact, and also with the antici- 

 pation that we shall be able to accompany them with suitable 

 illustrations, which could not be got ready for insertion in the 



present volume. 



A. F. 



August 7, 1855. 



[Notk. — This report is also published in the " Transactions of the New-York State 

 Agricultural Society," vol. xiv, pp. 705-880.] 



