296 FIKST ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tenth and Eleventh | Reports | [same as preceding to] Van Ben- 

 thuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House. | 1867. | Pamph., 8vo., pp. 

 90, including Index (the Tenth Report occupies 29 pages), 18 figs.: 

 cover with half-title, viz., Tenth and Eleventh Reports | of the | Nox- 

 ious, Beneficial and other Insects. | By Asa Fitch, M. D. | 



The Tenth Report contains notices of "Insects infesting Gardens " — Nos. 14- 

 18, viz., the cucumber-beetle, the three-lined potato-beetle, the hop-aphis, the 

 barberry-aphis, and the flattened centipede. 



The Eleventh Report contains the onion-fly, Anihomyia ceparum Linn., tlie 

 punctured flea-beetle, Psylliodes puncttdata Mels., the cabbage-fly, A7itho- 

 myia h'assiccB Bouche, the radish.fly, Antftomyia raphani Harris, the cabbage- 

 Aphis, Aphis brassiccB Linn., an extended notice of wire-worms, and notices of a 

 few other insects. 



The Reports of Dr. Pitch should be, and are we believ^e, regarded 

 as indispensable to the library of every American entomologist. In- 

 quiries are frequently made of where and how they are to be procured, 

 for unfortunately, complete series are but rarely to be met with. It 

 will, therefore, be of service to make the following statement in rela- 

 tion to them, referring to the table of their publication given upon 

 page 294. 



Two or three of the bound volumes originally published, — the one 

 containing the first and second reports, and the one containing the 

 sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth — may be obtained, by purchase, by 

 addressing the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, at Albany, 

 Mr. T. L. Harison. The third report is only to be had at second 

 hand as it may by chance be met with. Of the remaining ones of 

 the series, viz., the fourth, fifth, and tenth to fourteenth inclusive, copies 

 (of some of them only a few), in the volumes of the Transactions of the 

 Society in which they were published (see table), are still in possession 

 of the Society, and may probably be procured from the Secretary 

 through purchase or exchange. 



In consideration of the value of these reports and their increasing 

 rarity, provision was made, in 1873, through an appropriation of the 

 Legislature of the State, for their revision and republication.* 



The revision was completed by Dr. Fitch and presented to the Legis- 

 lature, and a resolution for printing two thousand copies under the 

 direction of the Board of Regents of the University was passed by the 

 Assembly,! but for some reason (it is believed from political considera- 

 tions), it failed to receive the concurrence of the Senate. 



♦Chapter Y60 of the Laws of 1873 (page 1147) appropriates fifteen hundred dollars to 

 Dr. Fitch " for revising and completing for publication his survey of the noxious and other 

 insects of the State." 



+See Journal of the Assembly for 1875, April 16th, p. 864. 



