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U.S. NATL.'tJTOS:' 



CONTENTS 



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Special Notes 1 



Aksenical Poisons for the Plum axd Peach Cukculio S. A. Forbes.. :? 



Repokt of a Trip to investigate Buffalo Gxats C. L. Marlait.. 7 



Notes on Noises made by Lepidopteua Henry Edwards.. 11 



A Letter on Icerya purchasi ir> 



Extracts from Correspondence 17 



Ameiiuau Insecticides in India. — Sciapicronrohinkv iu Cottonwood in Wash- 

 ington Territory. — A Fodder Worm in tlie South. — Col. Pearson's 

 Method of lighting Rose Beetles. — Lyctus sp. in Bamboo. — The Texas 

 Cattle-tick. — The Boll Worm in Texas. — A cosmopolitan Flour Pest. — 

 Mites on a Neck-tie. — The Potato Beetle in the South. — Swarming of 

 Urania hoisdiiralii in South America. ^Letter on the proposed "Ameri- 

 can Entomologists' Union." 

 Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, etc.. -iorfZ JValsingham.. 2:5 



General Notes 27 



Two Ijcal Outbreaks of Locusts. — Tent Caterpillar in Arkansas.— The 

 Thistle Caterpillar in Washington Territory. — The Cecropia Silk-worm 

 again.— Spraying for the Elm Leaf-beetle.— The Dingy Cutworm.— The 

 European White Grub. — A Wheat Pest in Cyprus. — The Entomological 

 Society of Washington. 

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