1, Beetle, with wings expanded, and one wing-case drawn only in outline, to show lower part of wing; 2, beetle as usually seen—magnified; 3, smaller and paler variety; also lines showing natural length.
FIG. 37.—GREATER ASH-BARK BEETLE, HYLESINUS CRENATUS, FAB.
FIG. 38.—PIECE OF ASH-BARK, SHOWING MOTHER GALLERIES OF HYLESINUS CRENATUS ON THE INNER SIDE.
June 25, 1900.
I am very much obliged to you for all the great trouble which you have been good enough to take about the Ash-bark beetles, including your letter of the 23rd and the box of specimens received to-day. Some of the workings are quite certainly of H. fraxini. One bit catches the eye at a glance as showing quite typical galleries. In the long strip the workings are not so clearly distinguishable. According to descriptions or comparison with other specimens they appear to me of both kinds. But I really cannot think of giving you further trouble. We have all that is needed to make out a good, sound account, and I hope, if all be well, to do justice to the subject in my next Annual Report, and that you will be satisfied with my working up of the points of the infestation.
With renewed hearty thanks, yours very truly,
Eleanor A. Ormerod.
To A. W. George, Esq., Sedbury, Tidenham, Chepstow, Agent on Sedbury Estate.
Torrington House, St. Albans,