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i j if f>, A wpflther and other conditions should be favor- 
coming —», * »« — 
i n „oumois grain-moth (Gelechia cerealella) has also met 
on this insect, published in my last report. 
An outbreak of the whc.l talb-.orm <M™^ ™ 
sratfft»- vsrJ; =<&•«* »• 
iurv to a number of others. . 
Tn extreme Southern Illinois, the forest tent-caterpillar (Clmocampa 
JZSTJ ,” frigUM inroad - h* “ “fd ft 
“lift mS S ft*” lift., to tail might have teen 
ftftbg* ,te1oi“.g. o “id tree, in , P „ng with P.ri. green, 
or other similar poison. 
ftreat numbers of these caterpillars were killed by a contagious 
disease whffih swept them off just as they were ready to transform 
to the chrysalis; but vast quantities of the eggs are now upon t 
trees ready to hatch in spring. 
ftft “l 'SSl’Shf h.“e“dmo5 
SH? rJ ft 01 vzg ‘A-srtft" “ 
raviclus ) worked upon the strawberries in precisely the same man 
ner and at the same time, being in some fields scarcely less ab 
ant than the other. . 
The season has been further characterized, to the economic ento- 
mologist by the appearance of several more .or Ifs virulent con¬ 
tagious diseases among caterpillars and other mfets, ; e ur p 
cabbage worm especially having suffered quite beyond example, ov 
l. lr „ e areas from this cause. It is difficult to believe that tins pest 
can be injurious next year in this region, as for several years 
past. 
OBGAMZATION OF THE OFFICE. 
Although the laws relating to the Entomologist’s ofnee m this 
State make no provision, direct or indirect, for any assistance what- 
ever to that officer, he being theoretically required to do even th( 
simplest routine and mechanical parts of his work with Ins own 
hands, the affiliation of the operations of this office with those o 
the State Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal, has ,made 
nossible and proper for me to use the resources of the Laboratoi. 
and the services of its assistants for work in economic entomology 
where this could be done with advantage to all concerned. 
I have consequently made much use of the two or three entomo 
logical assistants, both for field and laboratory work; the genera 
