LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Entomology, 
Washington, D. 67., December 5, 1905. 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript of a 
report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas, prepared by Prof. 
E. Dwight Sanderson, entomologist of the New Hampshire College 
Agricultural Experiment Station, formerly State entomologist of 
Texas and a special agent of this Bureau cooperating in the work on 
insects injurious to cotton in Texas. This report gives the detailed 
results of a year's work on the minor insect enemies of cotton by 
Professor Sanderson and assistants, and is supplementary to investiga- 
tions which have been conducted by other field agents of the Bureau 
on the more important subjects of the cotton boll weevil and boll- 
worm. It contains definite records of observations on the life his- 
tories of numbers of species, as also data on their natural enemies. It 
has been prepared with the valuable assistance of Mr. A. C. Lewis at 
Terrell, and Mr. C. E. Sanborn at College Station, Texas, many of 
the records of life histories having been made by the gentlemen named. 
I recommend the publication of this matter as Bulletin No. 57 of the 
Bureau of Entomology. 
Respectfully, L. O. Howard, 
Entomologist and Chief of Bureau, 
Hon. James Wilson, 
Secretary of Agriculture* 
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