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Paga 



Extracts from Correspondexce 74 



Fertilization of Yucca in Australia — A new Saw-fly Enemy to Sweet Po- 

 tatoes — Injurious Insects of Utah — Reappearance of the Wheat Straw- 

 worm in Kansas — Allorhina injuring Oaks — Ducks and the Colorado 

 Potato Beetle ; Additional Note — Kerosene Emulsion Treatment for the 

 Rose-chafer — the Strawberry Weevil on Blackberries — Predaceous 

 Habit of Histerida; — Imbricated Snout-beetle injuring Apple Trees — A 

 Longicorn Pine-borer injuring Shoes — Blister Beetles on Cabbage — The 

 European Leopard Moth injuring Majiles — A Phycitid Moth attacking 

 Pecan Buds — A Corn Crambus in Delaware — Treatment for the Horn 

 Fly — A new Enemy to Currants — -A California Tlirips on the Potato — 

 Rocky Mountain Locust in North Dakota — Habits of Mantispa — A 

 Correction. 



General Notes 81 



Lead-boring Insects — Damage to Turnip and Swede Crops in Eastern Brit- 

 ain — Locvists in the Vilayet of Aleppo, Syria — Another Government 

 Entomologist Appointed — A Curious Bit of Entomological Classifica- 

 tion — A Criticism of Circular No. 1 of this Division — The Host Plants 

 of North American Aphididis — A new Radish Enemy in California — 

 North American »Species of Trypoxylon — Destroying the Rose-chafer — 

 Quassia for the Hop Aphis — Silk Nests of Mexican Social Larvae — A 

 Strange Story — Was he Crazed by Mosquitoes or by Heat?^The true 

 Male of Pocota grandis. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 3 AND 4. 



Special Notes 87 



The Larger Corn Stalk-Borer (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 95 



Life Hlstory of the 12-spotted Diabrotica (illustrated) C. V. Eiley. . . 104 



A NEW Herbarium Pest (illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 108 



Ugimyia sericari^ Rond., the Parasite of the Japanese Silk- 

 worm Joseph Mik . . 113 



Further Notes on Panchlora (illustrated) C. V.Riley.. 119 



Some Studies op the Clover Hay Worm, Asopia costalis.F. M. Webster.. 121 

 Some of the Bred Parasitic Hymenoptera in the National Collec- 

 tion — Continued 122 



The Three Pear Psyllas. 127 



The first Introduction of Blastophaga in California Guslav Eisen. . 128 



Comments on the Fifth Report of the U. S. Entomological Commis- 

 sion John Hamilton . . 129 



Extracts from Correspondence 132 



Injurious Insects of Nebraska — Fall Web-worm Parasites in Indian Terri- 

 tory — Notes on California Insects ; the Vedalia and other Ladybirds — 

 An injurious Flee-beetle in Utah — A new Enemy to Pear Leaves — A 

 Grapevine Flea-beetle of New Mexico — Notes on the Palm Weevil — 

 Rhynchites bicolor injuring cultivated Roses — The Coleoptera in the 

 National Museum — A good Collection of Agrilus in the National Mu- 

 seum — A Leaf-miner infesting Sour Gum — Disappearance of the Gypsy 

 Moth in England — Remedies for Squash Borer — Forest Injury by the 

 Oak Edema — On the Treatment of Tent Caterpillars — The Catalpa 

 Sphinx — Peach Trees injured by Gortyna nitela — Hair Worm Parasite 

 of the Codling Moth — False Chinch-bug in Wyoming — Kerosene Emul- 

 sion successful against the Chinch-bug — Old Broods of the Seventeen- 

 year Locust — Note on a Leaf-hopper — Destructiveness of the Corn-root 

 Plant-louse in Nebraska — A parasite of the Cottony Maple Scale — The 



