PREFACE. 
Vll 
personally. What the extent is none know better those for whom 
this Report is especially written, and if they will give me any 
notes bearing on the subject in either way I shall be most happy 
to insert all information. 
It would be very desirable to have reliable notes, showing 
amount of acreage attacked in autumn, loss per acre on the crop 
and amount of damage to stored crop, if appreciable, as to bean 
stacks, &c., and also whether attacks are increasing in amount 
yearly. 
I beg, as in former years, to offer my thanks to Messrs. 
Blackie and Son, Glasgow, for the use of many figures. One 
figure is also retained of those originally lent for the Report by 
the Proprietors of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ and I have added 
various illustrations drawn from life. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, 
Hon. Consulting Entomologist of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
Dunster Lodge, near Isleworth, 
March , 1885. 
