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N'otes on the habits of some California Coleoptera, T). W. Coquillett 

 {\)\). L>fi0-L'02). — Biit'f notes on the following sjK'cies: Tritoma califor- 

 nicOj Anthaxia ccncof/aster, Jh/duorera scahra, Jliflohia (jranosa^ Vril- 

 leta expansa, Sinoxylon fleclirr, tS. suturale, Amphiccrus punctipcnnis^ 

 I*soa maculata, Lyctus stria fun, Pht/matodcs jtKjIandis, Xylotrcrhus 

 nautifus, Ipochus fa.sciatus^ Cassida tt.vana, I'hlaodcs diabolicus,and Cai- 

 ocncmis calif or n iciis. 



IJarh/ published rrferences to some of our injurious insects, F. M. Web- 

 ster (pi), -Gl'-L'G5). — Accounts of some early relerences to various inju- 

 rious insects in ncwsi);ii)»'rs and elscwliere. 



The color of a host and its relation to j'orafiitism, C. U'. iStiles and A. 

 1 1 assail {\\\). 205, 2G(i). — A call for in form at ion from veterinarians, stock 

 raisers, and l:niii('rs. with a view In dcternnnin*]^ whether white t-attle 

 are more sul»Je(t to the attack of lli<'s than dark colored cattle and 

 whether white Howls wre more subject to the gapeworm disease than 

 dark fowls, as stated hy Wallace. 



Extrarts from correspondenvc (pp. LMKJ-i'TS). — Letters are pul)lishe«l on 

 the following subjects: The etlects of a spider bite on a child; a mag- 

 got in i)eaches and scale insect {Chinonaspi.s cKri) on the orange in 

 IJermuda; insect injury to cocoanut pidms; biologjral notes on 

 Mi<'racis, Chramesus, and t'oscino])tera — throe genera of Coleoptera; 

 rcMnedies for wireworms; the clover leaf beeth- in western Pennsylvania; 

 the rice weevil in dry h(»p yeast; how to kill tree borers with kerosene; 

 not<i on the Cari)ho\era herbarium i>est ; treatment of the sipiash 

 borer {Mclittia cucurhita); ^^'lle^e are the eggs of the clover hay 

 worm laid t the box elder bug attacking fruit in Washington State; 

 notes, on the 'M)lood sucking cone nose:" the orange leaf Aleyrodes; 

 orange Chionaspis in l*'lorida; on the treatment of human patients 

 afl'ectedwith screw worms; botfly larva- burrowing under the skin of 

 man: tlu' horn fly in Mississipju: a southern cricket {ftrifllus sp.) 

 desfructi\e to tlie strawberry: insanity caused by mosijuito bites — 

 hibernation oliiiosquitocs; death of an infant from a s])ider bite; on 

 tlie poisonous bite of a spider, Latrodtrtus mactans ; death due to the 

 whip scorpion and tarantula: ami tame bir«ls as insect destmyers in 

 greenhouses — the writer believes that certain insectivorous birds, like 

 the wren, bluebird, and indigo bird, might beso thoroughly domestitated 

 as to free «uir gardens and gicenhouses of Aphidesaud (tther insect jtests. 



(irncral notrs (pp. 1!7!>-L'!»L'). — A successful shipment of \'«'dalia fr<»m 

 California to New Zealand is recorded. Jicviews or notices are gi\«'n 

 of a recent publication on insect end>ry«»logy, by Drs. Korsliell and 

 lleidcr; (»f a catalogue ot" l^ast India beetles; of re<'ent i)ublications on 

 a European white grult fungus: of llulletin Xo. 77// of the North Caro- 

 lina Station, on arsenites and tlitir dlects on foliage (see Experiment 

 Station Ivec(ud, vol. ill, p. I7;i); and of an article by C. 1S\. Wee<l on 

 the corn root aphis. Notes are also jiublislied on the injury to bees 

 caused by spraying Iruit, when in bloom, with arsenites; on the Colo- 



