LETfER OF TRANSMITTAE 



United States Department of Agricttlture, 



Division of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C.,Marcli3, 190]^. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscripts of the 

 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, which w^as held at St. Louis, Mo., Decem- 

 ber 20-31, 1903. The papers presented at the meetings of this associ- 

 ation are always of great economic importance, and the Department 

 has hitherto published the secretary's reports of these meetings as 

 bulletins of this Division. I therefore recommend the publication of 

 the present report as Bulletin No. 40 of this Division. The two 

 half-tone plates and one text figure are necessary to illustrate the text. 

 Respectfully, 



L. O. Howard, Entomologist. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of AgricuUure. 

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