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with for years, so I hope that you will not hesitate to give 

 me the pleasure of making this copy as useful as I am sure 

 it will be in your hands. I wish it were in better order. I 

 see that beneath the frontispiece of this copy is a reference 

 to p. 186 in the " Biologic von Cephenomyia, &c./' but I 

 suppose my frontispiece is a " proof before letters/' for there 

 is no reference or description. The two are the same edition. 



January 9, 1897. 



My rufibarbis was sent to me by Mr. Dugald Campbell 

 from Strathconan Forest, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire. I 

 received it on June 8th, then quite fresh and such a 

 beauty ! With its long thick coat it almost might be called 

 furry, and the "glance" on the hairs was lovely. It was 

 rather darker in some parts (that is, ran to rather more foxy 

 red on the centre of the upper fore part of the abdomen), 

 than is noted by some observers, so that it was very richly 

 coloured, and its red beard was very handsome. I have had 

 a figure taken of it, with great care, and if when you see it 

 (for of course I hope you will accept a copy of my next 

 Annual Report, on publication), you think you would like to 

 borrow it any time for one of your papers, I should be only 

 happy to lend it you. 



Yours sincerely, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



To Charles D. Wise, Esq., Estate Office, Toddington, Winch- 

 combe, Gloucestershire. 



TORRIXGTOX HOUSE, ST. ALBAXS, 



April 16, 1896. 



DEAR MR. WISE, If it would not give you too much 

 trouble I should be very glad of some information about 

 the case of Caddis worms attacking water-cresses. You 

 will know these grubs quite well as the creatures that 

 go about in shallow ponds or ditches with a case formed 

 round them. Sometimes this is of very little shells, but at 

 home the commonest kind was made of little morsels of 

 rush or stick, with little leaves webbed up with it. 



There is a very large trade in water-cresses from the little 

 river here, but there are such quantities of trout in it, 

 that probably these keep the Caddis worms in moderate 

 limits, and I only now and then see their flies, the so-called 

 " Water moths " in the summer. Mr. Richard Coe, Weston 

 Farm, Guildford, has kindly sent me some excellent speci- 

 mens of Caddis worms and cases, which I am very glad 



