Viii PEEFACE. 



A special (though unhappily for her friends a 

 posthumous) note of acknowledgment is owing to the 

 late able and highly-gifted Lady Curator of the Albany 

 Museum at Grahamstown, Miss Glanville, who for 

 years had devoted special attention to the study of the 

 habits of the crop pests of East Province, South Africa, 

 and laid a foundation which it may be hoped will be of 

 solid future benefit, and some of my best specimens 

 were lent from the collection under her charge. Her 

 communications to myself were marked by the same 

 spirit of kindness and thoughtfulness which gained her 

 the high esteem of her circle of South African friends ; 

 and though I have not been able to show her that at 

 least some amount of progress has through her help 

 been made in the work, she had so much at heart, I 

 can at least offer my tribute of very sincere respect to 

 the memory of a sister-worker. 



This little book is offered in the hope that though it 

 is but a fragment, yet still that, by descriptions and 

 figures of even a few of the common farm insect-pests 

 of the eastern parts of Cape Colony, it may possibly be 

 of some agricultural service. 



ELEANOE A. ORMEROD. 



TORBINGTON HOUSE, ST. AiBAN's, ENGLAND, 



May, 1889. 



