PREFACE. 1X 
by our agricultural, and also by much of our general Press. I 
thank them most heartily. 
For the use of the illustrations at pp. 4, 15, 28, 26, 37, and 
57, I am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Blackie & Son, 
Glasgow; figures at pp. 18 and 62 are from Newman’s ‘ British 
Moths’; those of Breeze Flies at pp. 128, 130, by kind per- 
mission of Messrs. Bailliére & Co., are from Neumann’s ‘ Animal 
Parasites,’ translated by Dr. Fleming; the remainder, excepting 
where otherwise mentioned, have been prepared for this series of 
Reports, and are mainly from the pencil of Mr. Horace Knight, 
of the staff of Messrs. West, Newman & Co., 54, Hatton Garden; 
and amongst these I think the two plates giving figures of the 
complicated structure of the foot of the Forest Fly will be found 
of much interest. 
In the coming season I hope to continue attention to all 
enquiries regarding insect infestations with which I may be 
favoured, to the very best of my power; and, further, 1 should 
like to add that, amongst work in progress, I trust that the 
Exhibit of Economic Entomology which, by the courteous request 
of the Council of the Bath and West and Southern Counties 
Society, | am preparing for their meeting at St. Albans in May 
next (accompanied by a series of coloured diagrams, from the 
pencil of my sister, of subjects specially selected) may be found 
practically useful. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F.E.S. 
Torrincton Housr, Sr. ALBAns, 
February, 1896, 
