CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Spkcial Notes 217 



Damage by the American Locust (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 220 



Chinch Bug Observations in Iowa in 1894 Heriert Oshorn.. 230 



The Hibernation of the Chinch Bug C. L. Marlatt.. 232 



The Maple Pse-udococcus {Pseudococcus aceris Geoff.) (illustrated) L. 0. 



Howard 235 



Notes on Cotton Insects found in Mississippi (cont'd.). Wm. H. Aslimead.. 240 



The Codling Moth double-brooded C. L. Marlatt.. 248 



A New Sawfly which is Inju'rious to Hollyhocks.. T. D. A. Cockerell.. 251 



Note on Hylesinus sericeus (illustrated) E. A. Schwarz.. 254 



A New Parasite or Mytilaspis pomorum L. 0. Howard.. 256 



The Patent on the Hydrocyanic Acid Gas Process declared In- 

 valid D. W. Coquillett . . 257 



A New Pear Insect (illustrated) 258 



Scorpions, Centipedes, and Tarantulas 260 



General Notes 



Grain Insects in Mills (illustrated) — The Carnation Twitter again (illus- 

 trated) — Legislation against Insects in British Columbia — A New 

 Departmentof the Pasteur Institute — Nitrogenous Food and the Repro- 

 ductive Organs — Some South Australian Matters — An Important Mon- 

 graph — Cooperative Work against Insects — A New Zealand Moth- 

 catching Plant — The Army Worm in 1894 — Abundance of Charaas 

 graminis in Scotland — The Butterfly Hunters in the Caribbees — Damage 

 by Abbott's Bag-worm — Two More Important Vedalias — Damage by 

 the Brown Sap-chafer — Abundance of an imported Snout-beetle in 

 Maine — Damage to Clover in Michigan — A New Cotton Insect in 

 Texas — The Pear Midge in England — Destructive Grasshoppers in New 

 York — The Western Cricket in Utah in the Forties — An Important 

 Scale Insect on Cottonwood — The Spider which Bites — Pseudoparasitic 

 Hairs of Tachinids — Cicada Chimneys — Bird Lice as Mutualists — 

 Occurrence of the Pear-leaf Blister Mite upon the Pacific Coast — The 

 Old Genus Tarantula — Synonymy corrected. 



Notes from Correspondence 279 



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