PREFACE. Vll 



Entomology at Madrid, I offer my sincere thanks for being good 

 enough to identify for me the specimens of Locusts which I 

 transmitted for benefit of his skilled opinion. With Mons. J. 

 Danysz, Director of the Laboratory of Parasitology (Bourse de 

 Commerce), Paris, I had the advantage of a little communication 

 early in the year regarding the serious mill scourge, the Mediterra- 

 nean Flour Moth {Ephestia huhniella) ; and on his favouring me 

 with a copy of his valuable pamphlet on the subject, it appeared 

 to me that I could best co-operate in spreading information by 

 requesting my booksellers to import (at my own risk) a certain 

 number of copies, so that those concerned might see the subject 

 in extenso, and the copies meeting with circulation, I have thought 

 it unnecessary to enter on his information fragmentarily in my 

 Eeport. 



To Mr. J. Fletcher, Entomologist and Botanist of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Experimental Farms, Canada, I am indebted 

 for constant kind co-operation ; and to the many other good 

 friends who help me, who are too numerous to mention, I beg to 

 offer my hearty thanks for their aid and encouragement. I 

 should fail in courtesy if I did not also offer my best acknowledg- 

 ments for the valuable and helpful gifts of entomological books 

 (of which I am frequently in receipt), including amongst these 

 the liberal gifts for which I am indebted to the courtesy of our 

 own Canadian Government, and to the Department of Agricul- 

 ture and Experimental Stations of the United States. 



Of the 33 figures given in the following Eeport, those on 

 pages 5, 6, 11, 22, 46, 54, 59, 60, 61, 62, and 95, are by kind 

 permission of Messrs. Blackie & Son, Glasgow ; the beautiful 

 figure of the Acridium americanum at p. 51 is after a drawing by 

 Prof. Piiley ; the Pear-leaf Phytoptus, and the feather-claws, 

 p. 108, by kind permission of Dr. Nalepa ; and the Pear Sawfly, 

 p. 79, from one of the blocks I have been permitted to use by the 

 proprietors of the ' Gardeners' Chronicle.' Of the remainder, the 

 figures at pages 1, 15, 32, 39, 47, 74, and 84, are drawn (chiefly 

 from life) during the past year for this Pieport. 



It is a great gratification to me to find that the amount of 

 insect enquiry sent to my hand, and which I think it a great 

 honour to be entrusted with, increases rather than lessens in 

 scope and in interest of points sent for examination ; and it shall 

 be my earnest attempt, by every attention that I can bestow on 

 enquiries sent, to endeavour honestly and soundly to be of service. 



ELEANOE A. OEMEEOD, 



• • • P.B.Met.Soc.,andF.E.S. 

 TOKRINGTON HoUSE, St. AlBANS, 



February, 1894. 



