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as species of Dorthesia, 286- Dorthesia cataphracta, of Europe, 286. Eggs 

 of the insect described, 287. Its food-plants, 287. Its life-history incom- 

 plete, 288. Remedies and preventives ; hot water ; removal of the pro- 

 tective egg-covers by brushing ; driving away the insects, 288. 



APPENDIX. 



(A.) ENTOMOLOGICAL EEPOETS OF DR. ASA FITCH. . . 291 



Reason for their notice in the present Report, 291. Of interest at this 

 time, to recall their origin, 291. Entomological Survey, 291. Legisla- 

 tive appropriation for an examination of the insects of the State, 291. 

 Dr. Fitch appointed by the State Agricultural Society to perform the 

 work, 291. Instructions for its performance, from a Committee of the 

 Society, 292 : equal prominence to be given to economic and scientific en- 

 tomology, 292: the habits and instincts of insects to be studied, and their 

 entire life-histories to be traced out, 292 : insects infesting fruit-trees t» 

 be first examined, and afterward, those of forest-trees, grain and other 

 crops, 292: an opportunity for studying any other unusual insect depre- 

 dator should not be neglected, 292 : time to be devoted to collecting and 

 classifying the insects of the State and describing new species, 293 : an- 

 nual reports to be presented, embracing both economic and scientific en- 

 tomology — under the latter, cataloguing all the insects of the State, 

 293 . a commencement to be made of full descriptions of the species of 

 some one of the orders, 293 : collections to be made and arranged for the 

 State Cabinet of Natural History, and the State Agricultural Society, 

 293 : such further examinations as may be deemed necessary by Dr. 

 Fitch, for the object iu view, may be made, 293. The 1st Report pub- 

 lished and favorably received, 293. Subsequent Legislative appropria- 

 tions for a continuance of the work, 294. Tabular statement of the date, 

 volume of publication, and pages of the fourteen Reports, 294. Title-page 

 of the 1st Report, 294. Say's Heteropterous Hemiptera of North Amer- 

 ica, an Appendix to the 4th Report, 294. Title pages of the three vol- 

 umes of Reports, with mention of the food-plants of the insects treated 

 of, 295. Title-page of 9th Report, published as a separate pamphlet, 

 295. Title-page of 10th and 11th Reports, published as a pamphlet, 

 •with mention of the insects noticed, 296. Difficulty in procuring full 

 series of the Reports, 296. How the Reports still procurable may be ob- 

 tained, 296. An appropriation made for the revision and republication 

 of the Reports, 296. The revision compieted and presented for publica- 

 tion, but not ordered printed, 296. The manuscript of the revision sub- 

 sequently mislaid or destroyed, 297. 



Miscellaneous Entomological Papees of De. Fitch 297 



The publications in which most of them are contained, 297. The 

 List presented [giving title, place and date of publication, and of the 

 shorter ones, extent in centimeters] is necessarily incomplete, 297. In- 

 sects Injurious to Vegetation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 (three papers) . The "Wheat Fly 

 and Chinch Bug, 297. The Wheat Fly: Insects Injurious to Vegetation, 

 Nos. 4 and 5 (two papers) : Winter Insects of Eastern New York : List 

 of Noxious Insects ; The Hessian Fly, 298. The Gram-moth; The Cur- 



