VIII 



Page. 

 Genkral Notks — Coiitiuued. 



Additions to the lusec, ^Collection of the American Museum — The Use 

 of Electricity against Migratory Locusts — Another Imported Scale- 

 insect — A new Plant-louse Enemy — The Twin-screw Mosquito — Eco- 

 nomic Entomology in New South Wales — Living Vcdalias at last reaeh 

 Egypt — Self-mutilation in Orthoptera — North American Tachinid;e — 

 New Species of Coleoptera — Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association 

 of Economic Entomologists — Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 11 AND 12. 



Special Notes -^ 353 



Some Interrelations of Plants and Insects (illustrated) C. V. Riley, Ph. D. 358 



A New Icerya Parasite L. 0. Hotcard.. 378 



The Wj:st Indian Rufous Scale {Aspidiofus ariiculatus Morgan) 



T. D. A. CockerelL. 380 



Life-history of Caloihysanis amaturaria W^alk., A Geometrid Moih (illus- 

 trated) A. S. Packard, AI.D... 382 



Steps TOWARDS a Revision of Chambers's Index, with notes and Descrip- 

 tions OF New Species Lord Walsitujham . . 38i 



Sugar-cane Insects in New South Wales Albert Koebele.. 3«5 



Notes on Lachnosterna G. JS. Perkins.. 389 



The first larval Stage of the Pea Weevil 392 



Extracts from Correspondence 393 



On some of the insects described by Walsh — A Chalcid Fly in a new Role; 

 Is it parasitic on the Clothes Moth? — On Figs grown without Capri- 

 fication — On the Beaver Parasite — Blister Beetles in Texas— The 

 Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle — A Wood-borer mistaken for a House- 

 hold Pest— A new Fruit Pest: Syneia albida Lee — On the date of intro- 

 duction of the Potato Tuber-moth — The East Indian Sugar-cane Borer — 

 Florida Wax Scale on LeConte Pear — The Horn Fly in the South — 

 The Horn Fly in Florida — A new Owl Parasite — Notes on Spiders — 

 Grasshopper Depredations in Ohio in 1891 — Tin-can Remedy and Paper 



Wrappers for Cut-worms 



Notes from Correspondence 399 



General Notes 402 



Additional Note on the Sugar-cane Pin-borer — Tlie Blood Tissue of In- 

 sects — Damage to Boots and Shoes by Sitodrepa panlcea — The Weevils 

 of the Tertiary — New Applicatitni of the Term "Wire-worm" — Feather 

 Felting — Damage to Carnations by the Variegated Cut-worm — A Larch 

 Enemy — Hessian Fly in New Zealand — Increase of the Wheat Straw- 

 worm — Great Damage by Buffalo Gnats — The Hop Louse in Oregon — 

 Food-])lant and new Habitat of the Montserrat Icerya — A Disease 

 caused l)y Parasites in the ears of Carnivora — The Itch caused 

 among Cats and Rabbits by Sarcopies minor — Fungus Disease of the 

 Migratory Locust — The Saltbush Scale of Australia — A proposed In- 

 secticide for Tea Bushes — Another Instance of the Value of Spraying 

 Fruit Trees — A new Insecticide — The Ibis as a Locust Destroyer — A 

 Scale eating Mouse — Spiders of the District of Columbia — Annual 

 Meeting of the Entomological Club of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science for 1892 — Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington. 



