PREFACE. 
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or rather will be able to see, when the cases are duly placed, 
the common kinds of attacks, and, if he has brought a specimen 
with him, to name it by comparison. A portion of this work is 
being carried on by Prof. Westwood, which, it is unneccessary 
to say, is beautifully executed, and a part by Mr. S. L. Mosley, 
of Huddersfield, which is excellent both in clearness of arrange¬ 
ment and beauty of the drawings, some of which are by his own 
pencil, some by that of the late Mr. Andrew Murray. 
In regard to the illustrations of my present Eeport, I again 
offer my thanks to Messrs. Blackie and Son, Glasgow, for the 
use of electros from the figures by John Curtis, published in 
‘ Farm Insects,’ to which I have this year been able to add about 
twenty-two figures, mostly drawn from my own specimens, and 
in other cases with the source duly acknowledged. 
The figures of the Moths, namely, Small Swift, Antler, 
Magpie, Common Vapourer, and Puss Moths, are taken, by 
permission of Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., from Newman’s 
‘British Moths.’ 
Altogether the advance of the branch of agricultural service 
dealing with the prevention of ravage of farm insects has been 
very satisfactory; and in the special point of reporting on 
injurious kinds of insects, whilst new information of a useful 
nature has been sent in during the last season regarding several 
of our crop-pests, this has been notably the case regarding 
Warble-attack. I trust that my correspondents will again allow 
me to remind them that I have always pleasure in attending, to 
the very best of my power, to all enquiries bearing on prevention 
of insect-ravage, and shall hope in due season once again to 
submit a Report to their acceptance. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 
Dunster Lodge, near Isle worth, 
March , 1886. 
