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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. ’ 
OFFICE oF State ENTOMOLOGIST, 
CHAMPAIGN, Itu., Dec. 21, 1892. 
To His Excellency, Joserpu W. Firer, Governor of the State of Illinois. 
Str: I have the honor to transmit herewith my seventh report as 
State Entomologist of Illinois—the eighteenth from this office,—apply- 
ing to the years 1891 and 1892. 
I have had for some time the intention to present in my ento- 
mological reports a complete monograph of all insect injuries to Indian 
corn, to contain, when completed, not only an abstract of all published 
knowledge on the subject, but likewise all our own unpublished observa- 
tions accumulated during the past ten years. Believing that I could 
at present do the agriculture of this State no other service approaching 
this in value, I have prepared, as the greater part of this report, a first 
instalment of this treatise, consisting of a discussion of all insects 
injuring the planted seed and the roots of Indian corn. 
Respectfully submitted. 
S. A. Forpes, State Entomologist. 
