VI 
PREFACE. 
attention of my correspondents and contributors to my change 
of residence, together with my sister, to St. Alban’s, having 
placed me in a much more favourable position, both for per¬ 
sonal communication with those who may wise to consult me, 
and also for field investigation, than was the case in the 
immediate neigbourhood of London; and I trust now to bo able 
to carry on more personal examination as to the state of farm 
pests in the field. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, 
Consulting Entomologist of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
Torrington House, St. Alban’s, 
March , 1888. 
