PREFACE. Vll 



the only too liberal donations of entomological works with 

 which I am constantly favoured by presentation of Colonial and 

 Continental publications, and likewise from the United States of 

 America, including the admirable publications of their Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, embodying both practical and scientific 

 information, the value of which cannot be too widely appreciated. 



In regard to the illustrations in this number, those at pp. 1, 

 3, 20, 26, and 64 are given by kind i)ermission of Messrs. 

 Blackie & Son, Glasgow, N.B. ; that at p. 46 is from Newman's 

 'British Moths' ; that at p. 101 from the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' ; 

 the PJiytoptns at p. 40 is by permission of Dr. Nalepa ; and the 

 Ephestia kiihniella at p. 76 is from Farmer's Bulletin No. 45, 

 U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Washington ; the others have 

 been almost entirely figured from life for this series of Keports. 



In the coming season I shall hope to give my best attention 

 in careful reply to all enquiries which may be sent to me, and I 

 offer my sincere thanks to all my co-operators through whose 

 help I have been able, through the long series of twenty-three 

 years, to lay the trustworthy observations of practical agricul- 

 turists and observers of farm and orchard pests before the 

 public. 



ELEANOE A. OEMEROD, F.E.S. 



ToRRiNGTON HousE, St. Albans : 

 March, 1900. 



