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wheat and root crops, fruit, and forest trees in this country, and 
to furnish suggestions for the prevention or remedy for these 
attacks. Such a manual was much needed, and, written as it is 
in a plain unaffected style, will commend itself to the most 
unlearned. 
The descriptions of the insects and their habits are briefly 
and clearly detailed, accompanied in almost every instance by a 
figure, either from original drawings by the author or reproduced 
by permission from Curtis’s well-known ‘ Farm Insects.’ These 
illustrations, in many cases pourtray the insect in its successive 
stages of larva, pupa, and imago, as well as the appearance 
presented by its peculiar mode of attack. 
The remedies suggested are all based upon experiments 
made and communicated by trustworthy observers, or taken from 
previously published information duly acknowledged. 
Miss Ormerod has been fortunate in securing the co-operation 
of numerous well-known entomologists in various parts of the 
country, who have freely contributed the results of their own 
observations and experiments pro bono publico, and the result is 
a very useful little Manual. 
We will make one suggestion for improvement in a second 
edition. ‘Two Introductions and a Preface strike us as being 
rather de trop. It would surely be better to Jet the Preface 
follow and form part of Introduction No. 1, retaining the title of 
“ Preface” only; and let this be succeeded by the “ Introduction 
to Entomology,” the first seven pages of which might be con- 
densed with advantage. Some of the illustrations are good, but 
many of them are not delicate enough, and would be much 
improved by the application of less ink and pressure. There is 
room for some improvement, too, in the Index. As the book is 
intended chiefly for the use of those who are not professed 
entomologists, it would be desirable that the Index should in 
every case contain the common English name as well as the 
scientific name. We do not find the Yellow Underwing Moth 
under any of these three English words, nor is it included 
even under the generic term T’ryphena, although described and 
figured at p. 38, as well as being figured also at p. xxxi of the 
Introduction. 
Ought not the larve of Tenebrio molitor, popularly known as 
‘‘meal-worms,” to find place amongst ‘‘ Injurious Insects’ ?—for 
