PREFACE. 



The publications of the Commission will consist of circulars, bulletins, 

 memoirs, and the annual report of doings and results of the work of 

 the Commission. The bulletins will contain such special information as 

 may be of interest and importance at the time of publication. They 

 will be issued partly in anticipation of the annual report, and principally 

 to meet the demand for information and the numerous inquiries made 

 of the Commission at the time. The present number has exclusive 

 reference to the destruction of the young insects which will so largely 

 occupy the attention of our western farmers for the next two months. 

 It will be at once followed by a second number on the natural history 

 and habits of the species. 



C. Y. EILEY, 



A. S. PACKARD, Jr., 



CYRUS THOMAS, 



Commissioners. 

 Saint Louis, Mo., April 2, 1877. 



