VII 



Gknekal Notes 279 



Mor»' lutciiiatioiiiil I^xchaiif^es of Vedaliii — Hariuless S])ider Bites — Insect 

 Euihiyoloyjy — A Kiiropoan Wliite (Jrub Ftinyus — Paris Green and the 

 Houey Bee — East India Bet'tles — The Colorado Potato-beetle in Nova 

 Scotia — A remarkable Butterfly Enemy — A Note on the Angoumois 

 Grain-moth — Injury to Foliage by Arsenites; A cheap Arsenite; Com- 

 bination of Arsenites and Fungicides — The Corn Koot Aphis — Mos(iuito 

 Larva} as supposed internal Parasites — The Henry Edwards Collec- 

 tion — Locusts in Egypt — Lepidoptera whose Females are wingless — 

 Tobacco Insects in Florida — Insect Diseases of the Mediterranean 

 Orange — Spraying for the Codling Moth — A new Locality for Icerya 

 purchasi — The use of Vaseline witli Carbon Bisulphide — Mr. Koebole's 

 recent Sendings — A Leaf-miner in Wheat — Entomological Society of 

 Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 9 AND 10. 



Special Notes 293 



The Pea axd Bean Weevils (illustrated) 297 



The Ox Bot ix the United States: Habits and Natural History of 



Hypoderma lineata (illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 302 



The Ravages of the Leopard Moth in Brooklyn (illustrated), Nicolas Pike.. 317 



How FAR DO Bees Fly f Frank Benton . . 319 



Note on the Water-bi'g found by Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, E. Bergroth, M. D.. 321 



The Locust or Grasshopper Outlook 321 



Early Published References to some of our Injurious Insects, II, F. M. 



JVehster ,323 



Strange Developments of Stomata on Carya alba caused by Phylloxera, 



D. J . Owen 327 



Extracts from Correspondence 327 



Destruction of Plant-lice in the Egg State — Remedies for Leaf-cutting 

 Ants — A new Fumigator for Scale- insects — Life-histor j^ of and Remedies 

 against the Mosquito; the House Fly — Is the Ground-beetle, Scarites 

 subtcrraneus, herbivorous? — The so-called California " Wine Bee " — 

 Grasshopper Outlook in California for 1892 — Loss from Grain Weevils 

 in Texas: the Bisulphide of Carbon Remedy — Addition of Lime to the 

 Arsenical Spray — Physianthus vs. the Codling Moth: a Disclaimer — A 

 Sesiid Pest of the Persinnnon — A Cayenne Pepper Feeder — An early 

 L'se of Kerosene — List of Coccidic observed in Jamaica — The Broken-tail 

 Snail in Bermuda — Bumble-bees and the Production of Clover Seed. 



General Notes 335 



Insects on the Surface of Snow — Vedalia in South Africa — Legislation 

 against Insects in California — Raphidia in New Zealand — The Straw- 

 berry Leaf-Roller ill Kentucky — Icerya rosw in Jamaica — The Phylloxera 

 at the Cap*? of Good Hope — A new Tree Band — A true Bug damaging 

 Peanuts in China — Sarcophaga in the Human Ear — The Japanese Peach 

 Moth — Anew West Indian Sugar-cane Enemy — The Hop Louse in the 

 extreme Northwest — More California notes — A Honey Bee Enemy in 

 California — The Angoumois Grain-Moth in Pennsylvania — The South 

 African Ladybird Enemy of Icerya — On the Date of the Introduction of 

 the European Wheat Saw-fly — An liiipnrtant Publicaticm on Spiders — 

 An Aleyrodes on the Strawberry — .Vbnndance of .Ittar/enus piceus in 

 Illinois — Quassia vs. Petroleum for the Hop Louse — A western Enemy 

 of the White-marked Tussock Moth — A new Cotttm-stainer in Jamaica — 



