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Extracts from Corrkspondexcp: 256 



Color of ii Host and its Relation to Parasitism — Fowls and Toads vs. Gar- 

 den Insects — Bisulphide of Carbon against Grain Pests; Additional 

 Corres])oudence — On Irrigation and its Effects on Insects — A tropical 

 Honey Bee — A honey-producing Ant — The Jumping Bean again — A 

 Boll Worm Crusher — Wax Moths in a Cupboard — On the Habits of 

 some Blister-beetles — The Sweet-potato Eoot-weevil — A Weevil in 

 Mullein Seeds — A new Enemy to Cypress Hedges in California — 

 Another vegetarian Mosquito — The Cluster Fly Household Pest — 

 Chrysanthemums and the Drone-fly — The Orange Fruit-fly in Malta — 

 Plant-bugs injuring Oranges in Florida-— Fowls killed by Mole-crick- 

 ets — Roaches in Brazil — Screw-worms and the man-infesting Bot in 

 Brazil — The Chipjiing Sparrow and House Wren as Insect Destroyers — 

 The Clover Mite in Houses again— Anew Chicken Plague in Texas. 



Notes from Correspondents 267 



General Notes 269 



An Enemy of the Screw AVorm Fly — The Archippus Butterfly eaten by 

 Mice — Notes on some Insect Pests of the Fiji Islands — Entomology at 

 the Iowa State University — Local Names for common Insects — Legis- 

 lation against Spraying — An Exhibition of Spraying Machines — Eco- 

 nomic Entomology at the Cape of Good Hope — Parasites of Animals 

 transmissible to Man — Further Illustrations of the Rose Slugs (illus- 

 trated) — Cockroach Egg Parasites — The Hymenoptera of Australia — 

 The Genus Mirax — An Important Paper on Butterflies— The Tobacco 

 Sphinx in Louisiana — Canker-worms in California — The Mediterranean 

 Flour Moth in California — Tent Caterpillars in Massachusetts — Results 

 of Codling Moth Legislation in Tasmania — A Vine Pest in Australia 

 — The Sugar-cane Pin-borer again — The Mustard Beetle in Eng- 

 land — New Species and Genera of Rhynchophora — Westward Spread 

 of the Clover-leaf Weevil — The larval Habits of the Acalyptrate 

 Muscidfe — A blood-sucking Chironomid — The Family Apioceridse — 

 The California Remedy for the San Jos6 Scale — Introduction of the 

 Long Scale into California — Imported Scales in California — The Mem- 

 bracida' of N(nth America — A new Enemy of the Tomato — An Insect 

 Enemy of Lace Curtains — Locusts in South Africa — North American 

 Species of Hippiscus — An extreme Case of Norway Itch — On Harvest 

 Spiders — A curious Parasite of the Pelican — Proceedings of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Washington — Obituary — The Manna Scale — A 

 curious Seed-pod Deformation — The Zebra Caterpillar on the Paciflc 

 Coast — Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTEXTS OF No. 5. 



Special Notes 289 



The Present Year's Appearances of the Pekkidk ae Cicada 298 



FcRTHER Notes on Yi'cca insects and Yucca Pollination (illustrated) 



C. V. Riley, Ph. D.. 300 



On the Pollination of Yttcca whipplei IN California.. Z). W. CoquiUcit.. 311 

 The Cocoaxft and Gx'ava Mealy-wini; {Aleurodicns cocois Curtis) (illus- 

 trated) 314 



Further Notes on the Cottontail Bot with the Breeding and Iden- 

 tification OF the Fly C. H. Tyler Townsend.. 317 



The Su(;ar-beet Web- worm (Loxosiege slicticalis L.) (illustrated) 320 



Report on a Trip to Northwest Missouri to Investicate Grasshopper 



injuries Herbert Oshorn . . 323 



