VIII 



l-a^e. 



Miile-killer aj^ain — Inaects Woiitifiod — Tlio Rod Scalo of tho Orauge in 

 Syria — Orau<;o-tieo Borers — Notes from Nnw Mexico. 

 General Notks 419 



Migratory Locusts in Australia — Souje Oregon Worlc aj^aiust Noxious In- 

 sects — Uvipositiou of Dcctes s2)inosus — Remedies for the Yellow Scale — 

 Tho Flour Moth in Canada — A now Enemy of the Fall Web Worm — A 

 Cherry-tree Borer in Maine— Tho Egyptian Icerya — Chinese Wax — A 

 New Zealand Frog-hopper — The Green Beetle Post in Australia — Tho 

 Bite of Latrodectns — Matters in California — Home-grown Pyrethruni iu 

 Cape Colony — Popular Lectures on Insects — Journalistic Enterprise — 

 Entomological Excursion — Obituary — Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 11 AND 12. 



Special Notes 



SoMK Icerya and Vedalia Notes (illustrated) 



EXI'KKLMENTS WITH A DaTE Pa LM SCALE 



A Viviparous Cockuoacu (illustrated) C. T. liiley.. 



The Grassekie of the Silkworm (illustrated) riiilip IfaUer.. 



Observations on injurious \.nd other Insects of Arkansas and Texas— 



F.M. Webster.. 



An Encyrtid with six-branched Antenn.e (illustrated).. William H. Ash- 

 mcad - 



History oe the Hydrocyanic Acid Gas Treatment for Scale Insects — 



D. W. Coqnillett.. 



Some of the Bred Parasitic Hymenopteica in the National Collec- 

 tion (continued) 



Description of a new Tortrix from California Lord WaUingham.. 



Extracts fr jm Correspondence 



Experiments with Bacterial Cultures against Insects — Correspoudenco 

 from Indian Territory — Notes on three Noxious Insects of Mississippi — 

 Sure Way to destroy Nests of Harvesting Ants — Willow Hedges in- 

 jured by Saw-llies — Oak Furniture damaged hy Borers — The White 

 Pine Weevil — A Lampyrid infested with Mites — Diabrotica injuring 

 Corn in California — A New Pest to Priine Trees— Tho Pear-blight Bee- 

 tle and Plum Plant-louse— Caterpillars migrating in Midwiuter — The 

 Grapevine Plume-Moth— Parasites of P"'ore8t Teut-caterpillars — An Au- 

 thomyiid injuring Sugar Beets — Remedies against Sand-tiies and Mos- 

 quitoes — The Horse Fly in Vriginia — A Plaguo of Grasshoppers and 

 Spiders in Idaho — Pacific Coast Termites. 



General Notes 



Massachusetts Laws and Regulations against the Gypsy Moth — The Exter- 

 mination of the Gypsy Moth— Hot Water for the Rose Chafer — New 

 Horticultural Laws from California — Insects stopping Trains — a true 

 story — Some Notes on Iowa Insects — Precautious iu investigating tho 

 Bites of Poisonous Animals — Some Tasmauian Fruit Pests — African 

 Micro-lepidoptera — Effects of Temperature on the Coloring of Lepi- 

 doptera — Another Carnivorous Butterlly— Silk Nest of a Mexican Social 

 Larva — Tent Caterpillars in Eastern Connecticut — Paris Greeu for Cab- 

 bage Worms — An Experiment against Wiiito Grubs — More Damage to 

 Corn by the Brassy Flea- beetle — Piiytophagic Dung-l)eetle9— Germina- 

 tion of \Veevile<l Peas — Tho Devastating Locust in California — Hop 

 Lice on the i'acific Coast — Made lusano by Destroying Cateri>illars — A 

 New Entomological Society — More concerning the Bite of the Katipo — 

 01)ituary— The Entomological Society of Washington. 



