preface. 



THE publication of a Third Report on the Injurious Insect's 

 and other Animals which have been forwarded to me by various 

 correspondents in the Midland Counties of England during 1905, has 

 only been possible by the financial assistance I have received from the 

 County Councils of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, who have both 

 granted the sum of 10 towards the cost of this publication, and my 

 hearty thanks are here tendered to both of these bodies ; also to the 

 Council of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society for their continued assistance with my experimental work in 

 Economic Zoology. 



I have pleasure in acknowledging the kind assistance given 

 me as regards the figures illustrating this work : To the Controller of 

 His Majesty's Stationery Office and the Secretary of the Board of 

 Agriculture I am indebted for their courtesy in supplying me with 

 electros of Figures XVII, XVIII, XIX, XXIV- XXXII, all of 

 which are from illustrations which have appeared in the Board's 

 leaflets; and to Messrs. J. F. Blakey, F. H. Brownhill, G. F. 

 Strawson, and Herbert Thompson for photographs from which some 

 of the other figures have been made. 



As in past years, I have been greatly aided in my work by 

 the farmers, fruit-growers, and horticulturists of the Midlands, who 

 have always been most ready to afford me all assistance in their 

 power, and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their ready 

 and willing aid. 



WALTER E. COLLINGE. 



THE UNIVERSITY, 



BIRMINGHAM, 



March, 1906. 



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