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infested alder plantation, I noticed that such had been the case, 
and where this is so, it is manifest that merely to cut the trees 
down to stumps leaving the grubs or chrysalids in the ground does 
nothing to check recurrence of the attack. This attack is easily 
known by the large tunnellings filled with results of the feeding of 
the caterpillar, which in the specimens sent me was white with a 
darker head. 
Many kinds of infestations of ordinary fruit and field crops, and 
some of forest trees, have been sent for identification and advice, 
but, excepting in cases of some special interest, it is unnecessary to 
enter on these at present. 
Amongst colonial applications I have been giving the very best 
attention in my power, and collecting local and scientific documents, 
regarding the appearance and spread of the Shot-borer Beetle, the 
Xyleborus perforans {—afinis of Eichhofi) amongst sugar cane in 
St. Vincent, Barbadoes, and others of our West Indian I.slands, which 
I hope to prepare at once for publication, fully illustrated. Various 
other points of inquiry concerning colonial crops are occm'ring, 
as with regard to Cocoa Beetles, Coffee Scale, Tea Bug, to which, 
so far as I am able by reference or consultation, I give the very best 
attention in my power. 
I have also received inquiry as to the cause of great injury to 
grass in the Faroe Islands. These being Danish, not British pos- 
sessions, certainly do not lie in the department of the staff of the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, still I thought I could not 
be doing wrong in sending over information and printed matter 
which might assist in such a serious difficulty. 
Eleanor A. Ormerod. 
