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When a few years ago, it was proposed to make another effort for 

 tlie puhlication, the manuscript could not be found, nor has tlie 

 search subsequently made for it been successful: it is feared that, not 

 having been properly cared for at the time, and through ignorance of 

 its value, it was destroyed. As it should have been deposited in the 

 State Library, it is still hoped that it may be brought to light in the 

 removal of the greatly overcrowded material of the Library to the 

 quarters being prepared for it in the New Capitol. As a possible aid 

 to its discovery, the above somewhat circumstantial statement is 

 made. 



Miscellaneous Entomological Papers of Dr. Fitch. 



In addition to the Annual Eeports made to theN. Y. State Agricul- 

 tural Society, as noticed in the preceding pages, the following ento- 

 mological papers have been contributed by Dr. Fitch to the Trans- 

 actions of the Agricultural Society, the Quarterly Journal of Agricul- 

 ture and Science, the Country Gentleman^ the Cultivator, and to other 

 agricultural and scientific publications. It has not been possible to 

 complete the list. Additions to it may appear hereafter. 



1845. Insects Injurious to Vegetation. — No. 1. (American Quarterly 

 Journal of Agriculture and Science, i, 1845, pp. 250-254, 

 pL 3.) 



Describes and figures (in colors) the following species of Coleoptera: 

 Saperda [Oherea] tripunctata, S, bivittata, S. calcarata, Clytus [Olyco. 

 bius\ speciosus, G. [Cyllene] pictus, G. [Neoclytus\ capi-ea, Desmocerus 

 jyalliatus, and Purpuricenus [huineralis]. 



1845. Insects Injurious to Vegetation. — No. 2. Insects of the genus 

 Cecidomyia, including the Hessian Fly and Wheat Fly. (lb., 

 pp. 255-269.) 



Gives general characters of the order of Diptera and of the family of 

 2Ypnlid<B, with the generic features, habits, and foreign and American 

 species of the genus Gecidomyia ; together with a detailed description 

 of Gecidomyia sdlicis, its galls, habits, enemies and destroyers, illus- 

 trated by a steel plate of eight colored figures. 



1845. Insects Injurious to Vegetation. — No. 3. The Wheat Fly. 



(Id., ii, 1845, pp. 233-204.) 



Discusses the insect under the following heads : Its foreign history, 

 its domestic history, its habits, its natural enemies, artificial means 

 for arresting its ravages, description of the clear-winged wheat-fly 

 {Gecidomyia tritici), the spotted-winged wheat-fly {G.caliptera), and, 

 species resembling the wheat-flies, C. thoracica and G. togata. 



1846. On the Wheat Fly and Chinch Bug. (Ohio Cultivator, Feb- 



ruary 1, 1846.) 



Cited from the catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Cambridge. 

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