TREATISE ON SOME OF THE INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION. BY THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M. D. A New Edition, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED, WITH ADDITIONS FROM THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPTS ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS DRAWN FROM NATURE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. EDITED BY CHARLES L. FLINT, SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF NEW YORK: ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 245 BROADWAY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by CATHARINE H. HARRIS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. 1.21 632.3 H24r REMOTE STORAGE EDITOR'S PREFACE. BY Y a resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts, 1859, chap. 93, I was directed to issue a new edition of Dr. Harris's admirable Treatise on Insects Injurious to Vegetation, with suitable additions and illustrations. By a resolve of the Legislature of 1861, chap. 80, I was authorized to use the plates prepared for the illustration of the edition for the Commonwealth, in the publication of one or more editions designed for a wider circulation than that for the State could be expected to have. It was thought best to insert the additions contemplated in the resolve, in the form of foot-notes. No alterations have been made in the author's language, and the additional notes are enclosed in brackets to distinguish them from those in the former editions. Large additions have been made to the text, however, from the author's own manuscripts. These will be found exclusively in the chapter upon the butterflies. In giving a somewhat wider significance to the title, I have but carried out the plan adopted by the author in his last revision of the work. Professor Louis Agassiz very kindly offered to supervise the drawings, comparing them with the original specimens before engraving. It is believed that very great scientific accuracy has thus been secured in the illustrations. Special acknowledgments are due to Professor Agassiz for this valuable service, and also for assistance rendered by way of suggestion and advice throughout. Acknowledgments are also due to the following gentlemen, who have contributed notes on the subjects named : Dr. John L. Leconte, of Philadelphia, on the Coleoptera; Philip R. Uhler, 438734 Esq., of Baltimore, on the Orthoptera and Hemiptera; Dr. John G. Morris, of Baltimore, on the Lepidoptera; Edward Norton, Esq., of Farmington, Connecticut, on the Hymenoptera; and Baron R. Osten Sacken, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, on the Diptera. These distinguished entomologists have made specialties of the orders on which they have had the kindness to furnish notes, and their contributions have added much to the completeness of the work. I am greatly indebted, also, to Mr. Alex. E. R. Agassiz for very valuable services, and to Mr. Francis G. Sanborn, whose enthusiasm in making collections, and otherwise promoting the progress of the work, has continued unabated from the first. Also to Messrs. James M. Barnard and Edward S. Rand, Jr., who have devoted much time and thought to the details of the work. Many individuals have aided by presenting or lending specimens for illustration, or otherwise, and among them should be mentioned, in addition to the above, Messrs. S. H. Scudder, of Boston, and J. H. Treat and J. O. Treat, of Lawrence. To prevent any misconception, it should be stated that, in the specimens from which figures 109, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 126, 127, 128, 129, and 130 were drawn, the second pair of feet were displayed instead of the first, and that in figure 114 the fore foot should have been omitted. The drawings for the steel plates were made by Mr. Antoine Sonrel; those for the wood-cuts by the Messrs. Sonrel and J. Burckhardt. The engraving as well as coloring of the steel plates is the work of Mr. John H. Richard; the engraving on wood, that of Mr. Henry Marsh. The work of these artists needs no comment. The printing has been done by Messrs. Welch, Bigelow, & Co., of the University Press, Cambridge. This also speaks for itself. No labor has been spared to secure the utmost accuracy and perfection in every respect, and it is hoped and believed that the objects of the Legislature in ordering a new edition of this valuable treatise have been fully accomplished. BOSTON, January, 1862. CHARLES L. FLINT, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. |