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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

we undertook, at the request of the United States Entomologist, the introduction of its foreign parasites into the wheat fields of Illinois. A very large amount of entomological breeding-cage work has been done by us in the two years just past, but of a kind which it is impossible to summarize. Something of the amount of general work done in entomology may be inferred from the fact t h a t we have added to the pinned collections fully 20,000 specimens, and to the "biological*' series, t h a t illustrating the life histories and habits of Illinois insects, 2,700 bottles and vials.

PUBLICATIONS.

The regular publications of the Laboratory and Entomologist's office during the past two years have been less numerous than usual: but the matter now in press and far advanced in printing is, on the other hand, unusually important. My sixth report as State Entomologist, the seventeenth of the entire series, was printed in 1891. I t contains 105 pages and seven plates, three of which are colored, wi h an appendix of 36 pages and one plate. One of the articles of this report was issued separately in advance, as a bulletin of the office. My seventh report is now in course of preparation. A second edition of the first volume of our report on the ornithology of the state, authorized by the legislature at its last session, has been longdelayed, owing to difficulties concerning the supply of paper. These have been met, however, by the State Board of Contracts, and the printings from our stereotyped plates is in progress at the time of writing. This volume stops with the Columbia**?, but a continuation and completion of this work on the systematic ornithology o: the state has also been printed, and is now nearly ready for distribution as a first part of the second volume of the zoological series of the Natural History Survey. Three articles have been published as bulletins of the Laboratory : One by Professor Weed on a plant louse species, one by Professor Gillette on new gall flies in the Laboratory collections, and one by myself on insect bacteria. We have now in press in this series, and nearly ready for distribution, a full descriptive monograph of the reptiles and amphibians .of the state, (173 pages and seven plates), by Professor Garman, and a similarly exhaustive account of the Illinois species of one of the families of true bugs (Membraeida?) by Dr. F. W. Goding. Besides these regular publications we have prepared and printed, in connection with the distribution of col lections to be referred to later, two lists, one of duplica e insects in the collection of the Laboratory (nineteen, pages) and one a list of economic species for public schools (thirteen pages). The following is a list of papers by the Laboratory force, published during the two years, the work for which has been done at the Laboratory. Forbes, S. A.—Svnopsis of Recent Work with Arsenical Insecticides. (Trans. 111. State Hort. Soc, 1889, p. 310.) On a Bacterial Insect Disease. (North American Practitioner, 1891. p. 401; Am. Monthly Micr. Journal, 1891, p. 246.) Bacteria Normal to Digestive Organs of Hemiptera. Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., iv, p- 1.) On Some Lake Superior Entomostraca. (Rep. IT. S. Fish Comm., 1887,, p. 701.) Preliminary Report upon the Invertebrate Animals Inhabiting Lakes Geneva and Mendota, Wisconsin, with an Account of the Fish Epidemic in Lake Mendota in 1884. (Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. viii, p. 473.) A Summary History of the Corn-Root Aphis. (Insect Life, iii, p. 233. > On the Life History of the White Grubs. (Insect Life, iii, p. 239.)