Note.— In the absence of a formal report for 1885, 1 prepared and published for that year, as an 

 appendix to the Transactions of the State Department of Agriculture, a collection of essays on 



into an annual entomological report, and the papers of the present report are, therefore, substan- 

 tially those prepared for the year 1886. The long delay in the publication of this report (now just 

 going to press) has led me to withdraw several articles on subjects which more recent observations 

 and experiments will enable me to treat to better advantage hereafter. The most important of these 

 are one on the root web worm and one introductory to a monograph on the insects injurious to 

 Indian corn. 



economic entomology, containing the greater part of the matter which would have gone regularly 



S. A. FORBES. 



Jttni: 20, 1889. 



