PREFACE. VU 



official entomologists both on the Continent of Europe and the 

 IT. S. A. and our Colonies, I am greatly indebted, not only for 

 the assistance of their colleagueship, but for the liberal supply 

 of valuable publications, for all which I trust they will accept 

 my hearty thanks. 



To our own agricultural press, and to many of the more 

 genera] journals, I am at a loss to express my thanks for their 

 powerful assistance to the cause of prevention of insect injury, 

 and their courteous encouragement to myself. 



Of the illustrations to the present Report, the full-page Plate 

 of Tylenclius devastatrix is given by his kind permission from 

 figures by Dr. J. Ritzema Bos ; of the forty wood engravings, 

 those of the Golden Eye, Millepedes, Diamond-back Moth, and 

 Winter Gnat, I am permitted the use of by Messrs. Blackie, of 

 Glasgow ; Corn Aphides (p. 24) are after figures by Mr. G. B. 

 Buckton, F.R.S. ; and the caterpillar of the Large Tortoise-shell 

 Butterfly (p. 6) after figure by the late W. Buckler. The moths 

 in the figures of Antler Moth (p. 12), and Currant Clearwing 

 (p. 43), are from figures of which I am permitted the use by 

 Messrs. Allen & Co., London. The other figures, where not 

 acknowledged accompanying, have been drawn for this series of 

 Reports. 



For myself, I may say that I hope to continue to answer any 

 enquiries on insect matters with which I may be entrusted to the 

 very best of my power, whether from our farmers and fruit- 

 growers, the editors of our agricultural papers (for whom it is 

 always a pleasure to me to identify insects of which the names 

 may not chance to be known to them), or others where such 

 information as I could sive might be of service. 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



TORRINGTON HoUSE, St. AlBANS, 



Fehruary, 1895, 



