PREFACE. 



To the Members of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture : 



Gentlemen : Herewith I submit, for publication, my Fifth Annual 

 Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the State o-i 

 Missouri. 



The year has been one of abundance, and no one insect has 

 attracted unusual attention or caused very serious alarm. Some, 

 •which were unknown and unobserved before, have figured rather 

 prominently, but the great enemies of our staple products have been 

 comparatively harmless, as the sequel will show. 



I have given more time than in previous years to lecturing, having 

 responded to the calls of many of our own Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural societies, of the Kirksville Normal School, and — outside the 

 State — of Cornell University, N. Y., and of the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College at Manhattan. 



It has been a source of true gratification to find my work more 

 and more appreciated, as evidenced in the increasing demand for these 

 Reports, and the more enlightened warfare against noxious insects, 

 which is so noticeable in many sections ; and I can not, here, help 

 expressing the wish that our Legislature may be induced to provide 

 for the printing of an extra thousand separate and paper-bound copies 

 of this part of your Report, to meet the increasing demand. Your 

 Secretary is often petitioned for the Entomological Report, which he 

 must needs send with the whole bound Report of the Board, and thus 

 incur unnecessary expense; or else not send at all. 



All the figures are made by myself from the natural objects, and 

 mostly engraved by Emil Lampe, and Wm. Mackwitz, of St. Louis. 



As in former reports, the older and more familiar generic names 

 are generally employed, and the names in brackets indicate the 

 genera to which the insects are referred in more modern systems. 



