﻿INTRODUCTORY 
  NOTE. 
  

  

  Since 
  1876 
  the 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist 
  of 
  Illinois 
  have 
  

   been 
  published 
  mainly 
  as 
  appendices 
  to 
  the 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  an 
  edition 
  of 
  two 
  hundred 
  or 
  three 
  hundred 
  

   copies, 
  bound 
  separately, 
  being 
  furnished 
  to 
  the 
  Entomologist 
  for 
  his 
  

   personal 
  use. 
  This 
  mode 
  of 
  publication 
  has 
  now 
  been 
  changed 
  in 
  con- 
  

   sequence 
  of 
  an 
  item 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  appropriation 
  bill 
  for 
  the 
  expenses 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  Government 
  passed 
  by 
  the 
  Forty-first 
  General 
  Assembly, 
  mak- 
  

   ing 
  special 
  provision 
  for 
  the 
  publication, 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  Agricultural 
  Ex- 
  

   periment 
  Station, 
  of 
  Bulletins 
  prepared 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  with 
  a 
  

   proviso 
  "that 
  one 
  thousand 
  copies 
  of 
  each 
  of 
  said 
  bulletins 
  shall 
  be 
  

   furnished 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist 
  in 
  condition 
  for 
  binding 
  and 
  distri- 
  

   bution 
  as 
  his 
  biennial 
  report." 
  This 
  appropriation 
  for 
  publication 
  be- 
  

   came 
  available 
  July 
  i, 
  1899, 
  and 
  the 
  present 
  report 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  be 
  

   printed 
  in 
  this 
  new 
  form. 
  The 
  two 
  articles 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  consists 
  were 
  

   separately 
  issued 
  as 
  Bulletins 
  56 
  and 
  60 
  of 
  the 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  

   Station, 
  and 
  the 
  reserved 
  copies 
  have 
  now 
  been 
  provided 
  with 
  a 
  special 
  

   index 
  and 
  are 
  here 
  issued 
  as 
  an 
  entomological 
  report. 
  

  

  