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LETTERS TO- DR. HOWARD [CHAP. XVIIL 



extracted largely from the excellent work of your own 

 Board of Agriculture, but in a condensed work of this kind 

 it is impossible to show the value and importance of the 

 observations as I should greatly desire. At least I have 

 acknowledged my obligation gratefully. I am sure I need 

 not say that 1 should think it a pleasure and an honour if 

 you cared to have some copies of the sparrow leaflet for 

 distribution. The farmers here are delighted to have 

 something reliable, and their reports confirm the severe 

 losses which P. domesticus causes. But there is virulent 

 opposition from a few people who rail at me in a most 

 unpleasant manner. 



Lately I had the great pleasure of a little visit from our 



E.C.K. 



i and 2, Moth, magnified and natural size ; 3, caterpillar, magnified, 

 and line showing natural length ; 4, pierced grain, natural size and 

 magnified ; 5, grain with frass, magnified ; 6, chrysalis in grain, and 

 removed, magnified, and line showing natural length. 



FIG. 42. ANGOUMOIS MOTH, FLY WEEVIL (U.S.A), SITOTROGA (GELECHIA) 

 CEREALELLA, OLIV. 



good friend Dr. Fletcher, and we spent half an hour or so 

 in cutting up some Plum-wood, infested by what I took to 

 be the Xyleborus saxeseni (Shot-borer beetle) (fig. 46), given 

 as a maker of flat cells, or burrows, by Eichhoff ; but very 

 likely you have heard about this from him already. 



I have had some nice observations in the earlier part 

 of the year of the workings of the Angoumois moth, 

 Sitotroga (Gelechia) cerealella, which was imported in such 

 quantity from North Africa in one or more cargoes of 

 barley as to give some alarm. 



