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EEVIEW OBSERVATIONS OF INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



Notes of Observations of Injurious Insects. Report 1879. London : 



W. Swan, Sonnenschein, and Allen. Price Is. 

 Miss Ormerod has laid the entire nation under great obligations by her 

 successful efforts to collect, systematise, and present in an accessible 

 form accurate information respecting the insects which are hurtful to 

 the human race by their depredations among field and garden crops, and 

 to timber and fruit trees. She reports that the unusual cold of the 

 winter 1878-9, and the depth to which the frost penetrated the ground, 

 did not have the effect which the world at large supposes always follows 

 severely cold weather — viz., great destruction. All observant ento- 

 mologists have long been aware that a continuously severe winter is 

 rather favourable to insects than otherwise, and Miss Ormerod fully 

 sustains the correctness of this view. Some of the injurious lepidoptera 

 are reported to have been excessively plentiful last year in various 

 localities, as also the surface caterpillars. A like statement is made as 

 to other insect pests. With the pamphlet is issued an observation sheet, 

 in which a list of insects is given, on which observations are desired from 

 all who are willing to help in this useful work. The list is as follows : — 



Injurious to Field and Garden Crops. 



1. Plusia Gamma, 



Silver Y Moth. 



2. Otiorhynchus sulcatus, 



Black Weevil. 



3. Sitones lineatus, 



Pea Weevil. 

 i. Agriotes lineatus, 



Wire-worm Beetle. 

 5. Tipula oleracea, 



Crane Fly. 



6. Tipula maculosa, 



Spotted Crane Fly. 



7. Anthomyia ceparum, 



Onion Fly. 



8. Tephritis onopordinis, 



Celery Fly. 



9. Psila rosae, 



Carrot Fly. 

 10. Aphis rumicis, 



Bean Aphis, Collier. 



To Cabbage and Turnips. 



11 



Pieris brassicae, 

 Cabbage Butterfly. 



12. Mamestra brassicse, 



Cabbage Moth. 



13. Agrotis segetum, 



Turnip Moth. 



17. Cephus pygmasus, 



Corn Sawfly. 



18. Cecidomyia tritici, 



Wheat Midge. 



Injurious to 



21. Cossus ligniperda, 



Goat Moth. 



22. Zeuzera assculi, 



Leopard Moth. 



23. Bombyx ueustria, 



Lackey Moth. 



24. Yponomeuta padellus. 



Small Ermine Moth. 



14. Phyllotreta undulata, 

 Turnip Fly. 



15. Athalia spinarum, 

 Turnip Sawfly. 



1G. Aphis rapse, 



Turnip Aphis. 



To Corn. 



V.). Chlorops taeniopus, 



Corn Fly. 

 20. Aphis granana, 



Wheat Aphis. 



Timber Trees and Fruit. 



25. Abraxas grossulariata, 

 Magpie Motb. 



26. Anthonomus pomoruni, 

 Apple Weevil. 



27. Eriocampa adumbrata, 

 Pear-tree Slug. 



28. Nematus ribesii. 

 Gooseberry Sawfly. 



