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FIRST ANKUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



nual appropriations were made tliereaf ter, for several successive years, 

 and until the infirmities of an advanced age no longer permitted Dr. 

 Fitch to continue his valued investigations. 



The Fitch Eeports, which have been universally held in high esti- 

 mation both at home and abroad by entomologists, agriculturists, and 

 many others, are fourteen in number. They are published in the 

 Transactions of the State Agricultural Society, as follows : — 



Of the above reports, the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth have 

 only been published as above stated : the others have appeared sepa- 

 rately, as follows : — 



First Report | on the | Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects, | of 

 the I State of New York, | made to the State Agricultural Society, 

 pursuant to an Appropriation | for this Purpose from the Legislature 

 of the State. 1 — | By Asa Fitch, M. D., ] Entomologist of the N. Y. 

 State Agricultural Society ; Member of the | Entomological Society of 

 France, of Pennsylvania, etc. | — | Albany : | C. Van Benthuysen, 

 Printer to the Legislature. | No. 407 Broadway. | 1855. | Paraph., 

 8vo., pp. 180, including Index. Title-page cover, and title-page. A 

 few copies wer e bound in cloth. 



*Appended to this Report, on pp. 755-812, Dr. Fitch has republished the following rare 

 tract: "Descriptions of New Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America, by 

 Thomas Say. New Harmony, Indiana. December, 1831." Of this publication, only two 

 copies were known to be extant. It was here reproduced from a transcript which Dr. Fitch 

 had made of one of the two copies, which was in the possession of Dr. Harris. It contains 

 143 species. 



