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group of pests which, though they are anything but insects, yet seem 
to find an appropriate place in a volume concerned m ith Agricultural 
Entomology. They include slugs, liver-fluke, eelworms, millepedes, 
spiders, and mites. Our language is deficient in a word which 
would adequately express the contents of this book. The Germans 
employ the term “ Pflanzenschutz ” (plant- protection), but though 
slugs, eelworms, and millepedes might be discussed under this head, 
it could not be made to embrace the insect pests that prey upon 
farm animals. 
The volume teems with sound practical advice — all based upon 
experience — as to the best methods of coping with insect attacks. 
Hence, it should find its way into every rural school and every village 
library. In the hands of young people it will prove particularly 
Fin. 4. — Deatli’s Tleail Moth ami Caterpilhar, Sp)iinx (Acherontia) atropos, natural size. 
serviceable. By its means the comprehensive but indefinable term 
“ blight ” will tend to become obsolete, and every insect attack with 
which crops in field or garden chance to be smitten will be at once 
associated with the name of the tiny marauder which is carrying on 
the evil work. Recognition or identification of the pest that is 
causing the mischief is the first great and often indispensable step 
towards its suppression. 
The study of insects has been a life-long occupation with Miss 
Ormerod. One of her earliest recollections is that of being placed 
in a chair to watch some large water grubs (probably the larvae of 
the carnivorous water beetle, Dytiscus marginalis) in a glass, when 
to her amazement one of the creatures which had got injured was 
devoured by its companions. This initial observation whetted the 
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