PKEFACE. 



To those readers who may care to look over the 

 pages of this little book I should like to offer a few 

 observations as to the reasons for its compilation, and 

 also by way of explanation of why in some cases a 

 fairly full history of the insects referred to is given, 

 together with means of prevention, and a figure 

 accompanying, and in others only a figure and 

 description, or perhaps only the name. 



About four years ago Mr. S. D. Bairstow, President 

 of the East Province Natural History Society of Cape 

 Colony, who had whilst in England been one of the 

 contributors to my Annual Eeports of ' Observations 

 of Injurious Insects,' wrote to enquire whether, if I 

 was furnished with similar notes regarding pests of 

 the crops in East Province, Cape Colony, I would 

 publish them similarly. 



At that time there was not the opportunity which 

 there now is of procuring sound and clear directions 

 for treatment of insect as well as other attacks of 

 crop and stock, by reference to the Editor of the 

 ' Agricultural Journal ' published by the Department of 

 Agriculture of Cape Colony ;* therefore I willingly 



* The 'AgriculturalJournal,' published by the Department of Agri- 

 culture of the Cape Colony, is issued fortnightly, and is sent gratis to 

 every farmer who is a member of an Agricultural Society or Farmers' 

 Association. Those not entitled to receive the paper gratuitously may 



