244 LETTERS TO DR. ENZIO REUTER [CHAP. xxi. 



(excepting Mr. Douglas), have, so far as I am aware, studied 

 Coccidce to an extent approaching Mr. Newstead's observa- 

 tions, and have no special bias towards applied Entomology. 

 The above will perhaps be of some interest to you as the 

 nearest approach I am able to make to a reply to your 

 inquiry, and I beg you to believe me. 



Yours truly, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



To Dr. Enzio Renter, Helsingfors, Finland. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, ENGLAND, 



October 15, 1894. 



SIR, In acknowledging receipt of your obliging letter of 

 the 8th of October, received here on the i2th, permit me to 

 say that I think it not only a pleasure, but an honour, to be 

 in communication with the leading Entomologists who, like 

 yourself, are working for the good of their countries. I 

 thank you much for your letter. 



First, about the Cecidomyia (Wheat midge), larvae (fig. 62) 

 on the Alopecurus pratensis 1 (Foxtail grass), I cannot remem- 

 ber that any further observations were sent me about it, nor 

 have I noticed anything in publications which come to my 

 hands. My correspondents often send me specimens and 

 details of some infestation which has caught their attention, 

 but it is with the greatest difficulty in many instances that I 

 can induce them to continue their observations for succes- 

 sive seasons, and the development of the imagines of the 

 Cecidomyia from the early condition is much more trouble 

 than they care to take. 



By book post accompanying this letter I forward to your 

 kind acceptance a copy of my seventeenth Report. In the 

 pages of the Report I have placed copies of various leaflets. 

 These, you will see at a glance, are not at all scientific, 

 but intended quite for popular use by our farmers, therefore 

 I have used the very simplest words I could. 



You are good enough to offer to send me copies of some 

 of your future reports in connection with Economic Ento- 

 mology. If you can spare them I should value them very 

 much. For although I am not able to understand more 

 than a word here and there, yet with the help of the 

 dictionary 1 can make out enough to see whether your 

 information is applicable to the conditions here, and I can 



1 This species described by me later under the name Oligotrophus 

 alopecuri, n. sp. (Zwei neue Cecidomyinen, Acta Soc. pro Fauna et 

 Flora Fennica xi., No. 8, 1895, p. 3-9, Taf. i., Fig. 1-9) (E.R.). 



