LETTER OE TRANSMITTAL. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Entomology, 

 Wnshingto)u D. C. May 8, 1906. 

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

 the proceedings of the eighteenth annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomok)gists, which was hekl at New Orleans, 

 lia., January 1 to 4, 190G, As the papers presented at the meetings 

 of this association are of very considerable economic importance and 

 as the reports of the secretaries of these meetings have hitherto been 

 published by the Department of Agriculture as bulletins, I recom- 

 mend the publication of the present report as Bulletin No. 00 of this 

 Bureau. 



Respectfully, C. L. Marlatt, 



Acting Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



