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No. 151. 



m ASSEMBLY, APRIL 3. 1855. 



REPORT 



Of Asa Fitch, M, D., on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other 

 Insects of the State of New-York. 



Executive Committee of the JVew-York State .Agricultural Society: 



I herewith submit a Report upon the Noxious and other Insects 

 of the State of New-York, particularly such as are injurious to 

 fruit trees, pursuant to your instructions, delivered to me in May 

 last. I also present specimens of the several insects herein 

 described, and of the vegetation as depredated upon by them, 

 from which drawings may be taken for illustrating this report, 

 and which are thereafter to be deposited in the Entomological 

 department of the Museum of the Society. 



It has been common in treatises upon economical entomology, 

 to arrange the several species in their scientific order. Although 

 this mode of arrangement has its advantages, it presupposes such 

 an acquaintance with scientific entomology as but very few indi- 

 viduals in our country possess. A person who meets with a 

 worm, say, mining a cavity in .the leaves of the apple tree, and 

 consuming their parenchyma, knows not whether that worm is the 

 larva of a Coleopterous, a Lepidopterous, or some other Order of 

 insects, and consequently is at a loss in what part of a work upon 

 noxious insects, arranged in the usual manner, to look for an 

 account of it. Even an experienced entomologist would be 

 equally embarrassed in the case we -have supposed, and would be 



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