NTRODUCTION. 



When the publication of Insect Life was discontinued with the com- 

 pletion of Volume VII, it was promised that its place would be taken 

 by two series of bulletins, the one technical in its character and the 

 other of more general interest. The general bulletins, it was stated. 

 would comprise short reports on special observations, and others upon 

 the miscellaneous results of the work of the Division in practical and 

 economic lines and in directions of general interest, thus including in 

 the main many of the classes of articles which had been published in 

 Insect Life. The bulletins of this general series so far published will 

 mainly go under the first of these categories. The present bulletin is 

 the first which comes under the second category. Much information of 

 great value to economic and systematic entomologists, and of very con- 

 siderable general interest as well as of much practical importance, is 

 constantly accumulating in the Division. Such of it as can be used in 

 reports and bulletins upon more or less special subjects is so used. 

 The balance, however, is hard to classify, and yet much of it is no less 

 important. The general notes, for example, and the notes from corre- 

 spondence, which may seem more or less insignificant themselves, are 

 read with interest and profit by very many persons of different occu- 

 pations, and it has frequently happened that the first record of a fact 

 or observation of much value has been made in this way. The char- 

 acter of the bulletin can be no more definitely indicated in a title than 

 we have done by the use of the expression l « Miscellaneous Results. " 



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