764 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Professor Forbes's Investigation 

 on the Food of Fresh -water Fishes. 

 Insect Life, I, November, 1888, pp. 158-161. 



Critical review of papers by S. A. Forbes on the food of fresh-water fishes, with extracts. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). The Hosts of a few larger Ich- 

 neumonids. 



Insect Life, I, November, 1888, p. 161. 

 Records of hosts of several Ichneumonidce. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Special Notes. 

 Insect Life, I, December, 1888, pp. 163-168. 



Notes on strictures made concerning Insect Life which is devoted to the promotion of ento- 

 mology in all its branches. Recent California work against the Fluted Scale. Reply to 

 inquiries concerning the right to patent gas-treatment against Coccidw. Introduction of 

 living parasites. Success of the mission to Australia. Credit to whom credit is due: 

 statement of lacts regarding the discovery and introduction into California of Lestophonus 

 ieeryce. Notice of a new entomological journal, Fntomologiske, Meddelelser, udgivne af En- 

 tomologiske Forening ved Fr. Meinert, Copenhagen. Result of the Sural New Yorker 

 potato contest: Ravages of Crepidodera cucwmeris. Some insect enemies of tobacco men- 

 tioned in report of K. Lindeman. 



Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). A Sandwich Island Sugar caue 

 Borer (Sphenophorus obscnrus Boisd.). 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, pp. 185-189, figs. 44, 45. 



Ravages, means against ; descriptions and figures of larva, pupa, and imago of Sphenophorus 

 obscurus ; figure showing work of the same. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Extracts from Correspondence. 

 (Answers by editors.) 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, pp. 190-192. 



The " Red Bug" injuring oranges again. Further injury in the Treasury by roaches. Beetle 

 supposed to have been passed by a patient. A Tineid on carpets in Texas. Leaf-stripping 

 Ants in Arizona. Stinging Caterpillar of Lagoa operations. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Grain insects in Australia. 

 Insect Life, I, December, pp. 193, 194. 



Danger from the importation of grain insects into Australia; means for preventing the same. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Further concerning the Locust 

 War in Algeria. 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, pp. 194, 195. 



Conclusions of d'Herculais concerning locusts and their invasion of Algeria. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). An important contribution to 

 Lepidopterology. 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, p. 195. 



Review of Walsinghain's revision of the genera Acrolophus and Anaphora ; arrangement of 

 the American species. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). The Poisonous Nature of the 

 Meconium of Lepidoptera. 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, p. 196. 



Commencement on Goosens's note concerning the poisonous nature of the Meconium of Lepi- 

 doptera. 



Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). The food-habits of North Amer- 

 ican Calandridw. 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, pp. 198, 199. 



Mention of the food-habits of the genera of North American Calandridee. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). A remarkable insect enemy to 

 live stock. 



Insect Life, I, December, 1888, p. 199. 



Comments on account of the poison of Thelyphonus giganteus and Mantis ( — Phasnwmantis) 

 Carolina. 



Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard (editors). Further on the Importation of 

 the Lestophonus, 



Insect life, i, December, 1888, pp. 199, 200. 



Announcement of the successful introduction from Australia of Lestophonus iceryov and other 

 insect enemies of lcerya purchasi. 



