CONTENTS. i 



FIRST IMPORTED CLERIDS LIBERATED IN AMERICA. . . . 320 



Letter to Timber -Companies, . . . . . 321 



The Imported Specimens Stored for the Winter, . . . 822 



AN EFFORT TO SECURE LEGISLATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE CON- 

 TROL OF FOREST INSBCTS, ..... 323 



Importance of having more entomological work done in the State, 

 and the desirability of the Legislature making provisions for it, 

 323. No action taken b> the Legislature, 325. Letter to timber 

 companies, 325. 



IMPORTED INSECTS DISTRIBUTED IN 1893, .... 326 



Methods, of Locating Colonies of Imported Insects, . . 326 



THE CARRYING OUT OF THE PRIMARY OBJECTS OF THE IMPORTATION 

 OE THK CLERID INTO AMERICA PREVENTED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE 

 OF THE DESTUCTIVE PINE BARK BEETLE, 328. NUMBER OF EX- 

 AMPLES OF THE CLEMD COLLECTED, IMPORTED AND DESTRIBUTED 

 BETWEEN AUGUST 29. 1892, AND MAY 30, 1894, . . 330 



Tables showing distribution and amounts subscribed, 330. State- 

 ment of expenditures, 330. 



FURTHER OBSERVATIONS WITH KEFERENCE TO DYING PINE, AND THE 

 DESTRUCTIVE- BARK BEETLES, DURING THE SUMMER AND FALL OF 

 1892, . ..... 332 



Alarming Character of the Trouble, no Further Doubt Regarding the 

 cause, 335. Further observations on natural enemies, 336. Dying 

 pine and spruce in Maryland and District of Columbia, 336. Ob- 

 servations after returning from Europe, 337. No abatement of the 

 trouble at the close of 1892, 338. 



OBSERVATIONS DURING THE SPRING, SUMMER AND FALL OF 1893, 339 



Conditions in Monongalia county in scrub, pitch and yellow pine, 

 339. Condition in Raleigh county, in white pine, 340. All the 

 examples of the destructive pine bark beetles dead, 341. Other 

 bark beetles threatening the timber, 342. Conditions in Kanawha 

 county scrub pine, 343. Conditions in Greenbrier county scrub 

 pine, 344. Conditions in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, 

 white pine, 345. Conditions on William's river spruce, 346. 

 Swarms of bark beetles, 346. Conditions in Tucker county, pitch 

 pine, 348. White pine, 348. Conditions in Randolph county, 

 spruce, 348. Conditions in Grant county, spruce, 349. Norway 

 spruce, Morgantown, 350. Conclusions from observations in 

 spring of 1893, 350. Conditions reported to owners of timber, 

 351. Further notes in 1893, Webster, Pocahontas and Green- 

 brier counties, 352. Extracts from paper read at Madison, Wis- 

 consin, 353. Observations in Tibbs Run forest, 355. In Raleigh 

 county, white pine, 356. In the Mayfield Hill Grove, 357. 



CONDITIONS IN 1894, ....... 367 



Conditions in the Spruce, 358. Conditions in the Mayfield Hill 

 Grove, 358. Conditions in southern, south-western part of the 

 State, 359. Serious trouble over, Extract from articles in timber- 

 journals, and newspapers, 363. 



OBSERVATIONS IN 1895 AND 1896. . . , . .364 



SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 1893-95. 365 



No living examples of destructive species found, 366. Other bark 

 beetles not exterminated, 366. Swarms of bark beetles, 366. A 



