CONTENTS 

 Association of Economic Entomologists 



Officers, i 



List of Meetings and Past Officers, ii 



List of Members, iii 



Proceedings of the 20tfi onnual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomol- 

 ogists 

 Part 1. Business Proceedings 1 



Part 'i. Papers U 



Tlie relation of the economic entomologist to agri- 

 culture, H. A. Morgan 11 

 Cultivation and susceptibility to insect attack, /. B. Smith 15 

 Further observations on the use of hydrocyanic acid 



gas against the floux moth, F. L. Washburn 17 



Observations on the biology and food habits of the 



Cecidomyiidae, E. P. Felt 18 



Notes on the habits of the Argentine or ' 'New Orleans" 



ant, Iridomyiinex humilis Mayr, Wihnon Newell 21 



Life history, habits and methods of study of the 



Ixodoidea, W. A. Hooker 34 



Some life history notes on the southern cattle ticks, 



E. C. Cotton 51 

 A tentative lavp^ relating to the incubation of the eggs 



of Margaropui annulatius, W. D. Hunter 51 



The relation of temperature to the hibernation of 



insects, E. D. Sanderson 56 



A Review of the present knowledge of the roll of ticks 



in the transmission of disease, W. A . Hooker 65 



Editorials 77 



Reviews 79 



Current notes 80 



JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



Official Organ of the Association op Economic Entomologists. 



A bi-monthly journal, published February to December, on the 15th of the 

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