Page. 

 Extracts from Couuksponukntk — Continued. 



Piirplci Scale of till' Orange in Montscrrat — N'olt-s on ISiitValo (inats — 

 The Horn Fly in Kentucky — \on-nii<;ratorv Locust Devastations in 

 Nevada — The (irassho])per Plague iu Michigan — (irasshopjier Notes in 

 Idaho^AFlightofWhite Ants— The Malodorous Lace-wing — A (Jrouiid 

 Scjuirrel Parasite — Pois<uious (^ualiticis ola iiortheiii ("entipede. 



Genkkal Notes 148 



Chrj'somclid Larvji- iu Ants' Nests — A Compendium of Economic Zoology — 

 A Generic synopsis of the Coccidae — Work in Algeria with a Fungus 

 Disease of the Locust — A novel Mode of using Disease Germs — 

 Mortality among Flies in the District — A favorahle View of the En- 

 glish Sparrow — Occasional Develoj)ment of Wings in normally ap- 

 terous Hemiptera — An Argument against spraying for Scale Insects — 

 New Means against Orange Pests — Late Entomological Publications of 

 the National Museum- -Tiger Beetle Larva' vs. Colia.s phlUxliri' — The 

 Reported Death of M. Kiinckel d'Herculais — A new Hiematohia : the 

 Moose Fly — Miss Ornierod's Kesignation — The Rumlile Hee in New 

 Zealand — Some of our Insects in Jamaica — Living Insect Larv;e in 

 the Intestines of a Child — New Bee Flies — A Bark-louse from Ants' 

 Nests — Oebalns puf/iiax an Enemy to Grasses — New Food-plant of liho- 

 doba'>iii8 1.3-piincfatui< — Living Larvje in the Ear — Bad Work by Yellow 

 Jackets — Death from a Bee Sting — A predaceous Capsus — Water Beetles 

 found in an old Gasometer — Hickory Horned Devil injuring Cotton — 

 A new Food-plant of Icerya — The Ladybird of the Egyptian Icerya — 

 Reaiipearance of Icerya piirehasi — The Pear Midge in New York — A 

 possible new Insecticide — Bitten ])y a Katipo — Entomological Society 

 of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 5 AND (i. 



Special Notes 163 



Wheat AND Grass Saw-flies (illustrated) C. V. KUvij atUt ('. L. Maria ft.. 168 



The Importation of a Hessl\x Fly Parasite from Europe... 9. A. Forben. . 179 

 The Origin axi> Developmext of Parasittsm among the Sarcoptid.e. 



H. Garman . . 182 



Origin and Development of the Parasitic Habit in Mallophaga and 



PEDicuLiD.i; Herbert (hborn . . 187 



The Use of Grape Ba(;s uv a Paper-making Wasi> Mary E. Murtfeldt. . 192 



The Methods of Pfpation amonc; the Chalcidid.e (illustrated). 



L. 0. Howard. . 193 



Notes on Grass Insects in Washington, D. C Herbert Oaborn . . 197 



Ax Interesting Aquatic Bug (illustrated) 198 



Hf>MiNivoROUS Habits of the Screw Worm in St. Louis. 



Mary E. Murtfeldt. . 200 



Another Spider-egg Parasite L. O. Howard . . 202 



Extr.\cts from Correspondence 202 



Another Lead-boring Insect (illustrated) — Red Ants in California — (iall 

 on a common Weed — A Clerid Beetle found in Plush — A Twig-girdler 

 of Fig Trees — An old Enemy of the Colorado Potato Beetle — Do 

 Ground Beetles destroy Peach-tree Borers? — Good Results from S]»ray- 

 ing for Codling Moth — The Tin Can Remedy for Cut-worms — A Sphinx 

 Larva feeding on Mints — The Clover-hay Worm — A California Twig- 

 borer: Is it Anarsia? — The Red-humped Caterpillar killed by Para- 

 sites — Treatment of Grain infested with Angoumois Moths — Treatment 

 of the Boll Worm — The Strawberry Leaf-roller — The Electric-light 

 Bug — Woolly Root-louse of the Apple — The Grape Phylloxera in the 



