CONTENTS 



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 American Association of Economic Entomologists 



Officers vii 



List of Meetings and Past Officers vii 



List of Members ix 

 Proceedings of the 25t'h Annual Meeting of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists 



Part 1, Business Proceedings 1 



Part 2, Papers 27 



American interest in medical entomology W. D. Hunter 27 

 Further data on heat as a means of controlling mill insects 



G. A. Dean 40 

 Notes on the rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus simplex Say, and its 



control Wilmon Newell 55 



New destructive insects in New York P. J. Parrott 61 

 Precautions taken and the danger of introducing the Mediter- 

 ranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata Wied., into the United States 



H. H. P. Severin 68 



A city's attempt to trap brown-tail mothsi C. H. Hadley 74 

 Results of experiments in controlling the gipsy moth by removing 



its favorite food plants A. F. Burgess and D. M. Rogers 75 



Abstract of paper on the cherry fruit flies G. W. Herrick 79 



Some external insect parasites of domestic fowls G. W. Herrick 81 



Some natural enemies of spiders and mites H. J. QuayU 85 

 Economic entomologj' at the second international congress of 



entomology L. 0. Howard 88 



Mosquito control work in Connecticut in 1912 W. E. Britton 89 

 Notes on little known habits of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever 



tick, Dermacentor venustus Bks. R. A. Cooley 93 

 Pellagra and the sand fly, II S. J. Hunter 96 

 The relation of the stable-fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, to the transmis- 

 sion of infantile paralysis C. T. Brues 101 

 A new fly trap C. F. Hodge 110 

 The stable-fly, Stomoxys calcitrans Linn., an important live stock pest 



F. C. Bishopp 112 

 Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of the American Association of Official 

 Horticultural Inspectors 



Part 1, Easiness Proceedings 127 



President's address T. J. Headlee 130 



The Federal plant quarantine act C L. Marlait 133 



Two new Coccidae T. D. A. Cockerel! 142 



On the feeding habits of Pimpla (Itoplectis) conquisitor Say F. A. Johnston 144 



Imagination and facts 147 



Entomological conferences in Porto Rico 148 



The 50th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario 150 



Editorial • 151 



Reviews 152 



Current notes 154 



'Paper not received in time for publication. 



