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St. Albans, 

 September 



'But, meanwhile, I may most truly say that, if the crop or timber or fruit 

 growers of India were furnished with plain and comprehensive accounts of history 

 and habits of the common insect pests, accompanied by wood-cut figures, so as to 

 convey the appearance of pests without wearisome description of details, all this 

 would be a national benefit, repaying the outlay a hundred times." 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



