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the work is devoted, this section alone occupying 460 pages. The 
author first deals with the large order of the beetles, which include 
the weevils (Figs. 2 and 3). Then follow the Orthoptera (earwigs, 
crickets, and grass-hoppers), the Neuroptera, the Hymenoptera (saw- 
flies, gall-flies, &c.), the butterflies and moths (Fig. 4), the Aphides or 
Fig. 4. — The Goat Moth or Willow-borer, Cossus lUjniperda. 
plant-lice (Fig. 5), and the Diptera or two-winged flies (gnats, midges, 
gadflies, <fec.). In this portion of the book, which is amply illus- 
trated, the author does for his readers what Miss E. A. Ormerod 
has so well performed in this country, in indicating the methods of 
prevention of, or the remedies for, the attsi,cks of injurious iirsects. 
