242 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Horticultural Society of England ; the Gold Medal of Honour and two 

 Silver Medals from the University of Moscow; and Honorary Member- 

 ship in many Scientific Societies both in Europe and America. 



Among her entomological publications may be mentioned the 

 "Manual of Injurious Insects," 1881; "Guide to Methods of Insect Life," 

 18S4; "Injurious Insects of South Africa," 18S9; "A Text-book of 

 Agricultural Entomology"; and the long series of "Annual Reports of 

 Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests," from 1S7S to 1901. The 

 last of these Reports, the twenty-fourth volume, we noticed in the May 

 number of this magazine, and gave some account of their great practical 

 value and the wide range that they cover. 



Miss Ormerod was one of the most remarkable women of the latter 

 half of the nineteenth century, and did more than any one else in the 

 British Isles to further the interests of farmers, fruit-growers and 

 gardeners, by making known to them methods for controlling and 

 subduing their multiform insect pests. Her labours were unwearied and 

 unselfish ; she received no remuneration for her services, but cheerfully 

 expended what means she possessed in carrying out her investigations 

 and publishing their results. We know not now by whom in England 

 this work can be continued ; it is not likely that any one can follow in 

 the unique path laid out by Miss Ormerod ; we may therefore cherish the 

 hope that the Government of the day will hold out a helping hand and 

 establish an entomological bureau for the lasting benefit of the great 

 agricultural interests of the country. C. J. S. B. 



ON TYPES OF ACRONYCTA, ETC. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, A. M., HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



The following comments upon Prof. Smith's paper in Can. Ent. for 

 Nov., 1900, 33 j, have suggested themselves to me. The types of 

 Acronycta there discussed are the specimens in Brit. Mus. Coll., and in 

 several instances my determinations are now adopted by the author. 



A. pallidicoma, Grote. 



This name is cited without comment, except that the type is a small 

 female (334). It would have been more to the point if this name had been 

 identified with one of the " two series into which xyliniformis allows itself 

 to be so prettily divided" (Sm. and Dyar, p. 149). Whether as applied 

 to a form or a species, the name is valid. It is not xyliniformis as 



