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account of all insects known to be in any way destructive to the 
strawberry, but also contains accounts of the wheat-bulb worm, 
the wheat straw worm, notes on insects affecting sorghum and 
broom-corn. The black-headed grass maggot, a species of Sciara, 
is also described, the fly not having been bred. The report closes 
with notes on the black fruit weevil, on the green apple-leaf hop- 
per and the lesser apple-leaf folder. The life-histories of the fol- 
lowing insects are new to science: Meromyza americana, Cacacta 
cbsoletana, Lygus lineolaris, Dereocoris rapidus, Scelodonta pubes- 
cens. The new species described are Calinius meromys@, Chai- 
tophorus flavus and Siphonophora minor. i 
„The field work, the laboratory researches and the practical 
hints in this report offer little subject of criticism. It is to be 
hoped that a long series of such reports will be issued by the 
State, as those which have thus far appeared are in every way 
creditable to the State and its entomologist, and we know they 
e Said appreciated by the entomological and horticultural 
public. 
explanation to the cultivators of the subject, in order to account 
for € very imperfect condition in which 
referring to the type specimen of the Megaptera osphyia Cope, ae 
t in mounting the specimen all the wn a aS 
atlas, have been reversed. He then adds, “ I am convinced, s 
careful measurements, that the great height of siper T 
lumbar neural spines, on which the species 1S mainly an 
iS a misapprehension,” etc. The following quotation from my 
"From the re i es exhibit in the International Fi eries Ex- 
tibition of London in 1853. Washington, 1 
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