4 INTRODUCTION. 



shall be able to obtain additional facts to render our account of 

 these species more complete and exact, and also with the antici- 

 pation that -we shall be able to accompany them with suitable 

 illustrations, which could not be got ready for insertion in the 

 present volume. A. F. 



August 7, 1855. 



[NoTE.-^This report is also published in the " Transactions of the New-Tork State 

 Agrieultural Society," vol. xiy, pp. 706-880.] 



