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PREFACE. 
It remains to me now to express the hope that the assistance 
so long given to me in agricultural insect researches will still be 
kindly continued in the coming season, and that I may be enabled 
to look forward to again placing serviceable information entrusted 
to me before my contributors, and those who encourage the work 
of prevention of insect-ravage by their approval. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, 
Consulting Entomologist of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
Torrington House, St. Alban's, 
March, 1890. 
