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Extracts from Corrkspondence — Coutinued. 



United States — Mites on a Maple Aphid- -Scales from Tahiti — Plant- 

 louse on Celery — The Eose Diaspis — Scale-insects from Trinidad — A 

 Vegetarian Mos(i[iiito — Gregarious "Snake-worms" — Abundance of the 

 Clover Mite in Michigan — Urine recommended for Eel-worms. 



General Notes 215 



Vedalia and Icerya in New Zealand — The Chinese Insect-fungus Drug 

 (illustrated) — The Dlfiflculty of disinfecting imported Plants — Fumi- 

 gating at Night not necessary — Hemlock Damage by the Larch Saw- 

 fly — A Clematis Root-borer (illustrated) — The Spread of the Gypsy 

 Moth — Micropteryx; A remarkable Lepidopterous Larva — Damage 

 to Apple Trees near Loudon — An Enemy of the Tussock Moth — The 

 Black Vine- weevil: A Hot-house Pest — Hemp as a Protection against 

 Weevils — Cave Glow-worms of Tasmania — The best Mosquito Rem- 

 edy — The True Bugs or Heteroptera of Tennessee — The Phylloxera in 

 France and the American Vine — Remedies for the Phylloxera at the 

 Cape of Good Hope — Abundance of the Pear-tree Psylla in New York — 

 The Evolution of a Newspaper Statement — A Note on Physiological 

 Chemistry — Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario — 

 A Japanese Parasite of the Gypsy Moth — Prof. Smith's European Trip — 

 A useful Beetle Mite — Change of Location — Phitomological Society of 

 Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 7 AND 8. 



Special Notes 231 



The Potato-tuber Moth {Lita solanella Boisd. ) (illustrated) 239 



A Genus of Mantis Egg-parasites (illustrated) 242 



Notes on the Grain Toxoptera {Toxopteia graminum Hond.). F.M. Webster.. 245 



The Larger Digger-wasp (.illustrated) C V. Riley. . 248 



The Habits of Elasmus (illustrated) L. 0. Howard. . 253 



Bees of great Valie to Fruit and Seed Growers Frank Benton.. 254 



Some bred West Virginia Braconid^ A. I). Hopkins.. 356 



Notes on the Habits of some California Coleopteka.D. W. CoquiUeit.. 260 



Early pl^blished References to some of our injuriois Insects 



F. M. Webster. . 262 



The Color of a Host and its Relation to Parasitism 



C. W. Stiles and A. Hassall.. 265 



Extracts from Correspondence 266 



The Effects of a Spider Bite on a Child — Insect Pests in Bernmda — Insect 

 lujury-to Cocoanut Palms — Biological Notes on Micracis, Chramesus, 

 and Coscinoptera — Remedies for Wireworms — Coleopterous Larvae in a 

 Cistern — A Longicorn Borer in Apple Roots — Was it Diabrotica 12-punc- 

 tata? — The Clover-leaf Beetle in western Pennsylvania — The Rice 

 Weevil in dry Hop Yeast — How to Kill Tree-borers — Note on the 

 Carphoxera Herbarium Pest — Treatment of the Squash Borer — Where 

 are the Eggs of the Clover Hay-worm laid? — The Box-elder Bug at- 

 tacking Fruit in Washington State — Notes on the " Blood-sucking 

 Cone-nose" — The Orange-leaf Aleyrodes — Orange Chionaspis in Flor- 

 ida — On the Treatment of Hunum Patients affected with Screw Worm — 

 Bot-fly Larvje burrowing under the Skin of Man — The Horn Fly in 

 Mississippi — A southern Cricket destructive to the Strawberry — In- 

 sanity caused by Mosquito Bites; Hibernation of Mosquitoes — Death 

 of an Infant from a Spider Bite — On the poisonous Bite of the Spider, 

 Latrodecfiis nuictuvs — Death due to the Whip Scorpion and Tarantula — 

 Tame Birds as Insect Destrovers. 



