LETTp OF TRANSMITTAL 



Office of State Entomologist, 

 Champaign, Illinois, December 30, 1886. 



To His Excellency, Kichakd J. Oglesby, Governor of the State 

 of Illinois. 



SiE : I have the honor to transmit herewith my report as State 

 Entomologist for the two years ending December 31, 1886. As a 

 recent opinion of the Attorney General makes it doubtful whether 

 I have a right, under the laws relating to this office (to some 

 extent inconsistent and conflicting) to prepare any other than a 

 biennial report, I made no formal report for 1885, and shall here- 

 after make biennial reports only, supplementing these by bulletins 

 of the office, issued whenever important results of new work or 

 entomological occurrences of special interest to the general public, 

 make it desirable that prompt information should be given. 



I am further induced to this course by the fact that thus only 

 can I continue to provide both for the work of the entomological 

 office and for that of the State Natural History Survey, for which, 

 as Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, I was 

 made responsible by the Thirty-fourth General Assembly. 



Respectfully submitted, 



S. A. Forbes, 



State Entomologist. 



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