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glad to know about it. Thank you also for your kind per- 

 mission to use some of your figures of schachtii. 



I should very much like to have some specimens of the 

 hop-growth called " nettle-headed," but I have only 

 received a very few leaves, in which I did not see anything 

 amiss. 



I received a specimen (though I suppose this is not rare) 

 of the large Cocclnella ocellata (Eyed lady-bird). What a 

 pretty creature it is ! I had never seen it before. 



Also from a North British correspondent I received a 

 number of what I do not think could be other than larvae 

 of one of the Staphylinidce, which were doing mischief by 

 feeding in turnips or their flower stems or leafstalks. They 

 looked grey to the unassisted eye ; magnified, they were 

 whitish with grey patches along the back, and they much 

 resembled the fig. by Professor Westwood (see p. 167 of 

 vol. i. of his "Classification of Insects"), of which I give a 



H.K 

 Natural size and magnified. 



FIG. 6l. EYED LADY-BIRD, COCCINELLA OCELLATA. 



rough tracing of the magnified larva and line showing 

 natural size. Professor Westwood found numbers of these 

 larvae feeding on turnips, but, unfortunately, he does not 

 give even the generic name. They are obviously very 

 destructive, that is, those sent me. 



I have been most carefully studying your observations on 

 schachtii in oats with great pleasure and profit. With kind 

 regards and ever with many thanks, believe me, 

 Yours very truly, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



To Dr. W. M. Schoyen, State Entomologist, Christiania. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, ENGLAND, 



August 23, 1892. 



DEAR SIR, I have long been in your debt for grateful 

 acknowledgment of your kind thought in sending me from 



