CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Special Notes 199 



The Use of Hydrocyanic Acid Gas fok the Destruction of the Red 



Scale D.W.CoquilleU. 202 



The Larv.e of H ypoderma bo vis Cooper Curtice 207 



The imported Gipsy Moth (illustrated) 208 



Some insect Pests of the Household, continued— The true Clothes 



Moths (illustrated) C. V. Riley. 211 



Irrigation AND injurious Insects L. 0. Howard. 215 



Note on the Oviposition and embryonic Development of Xiphidium 



ensiferum Wm. M. Wheeler. 222 



The Six-spotted Mite of the Orange (illustrated) C. V. Eiley. 225 



Harpiphorus maculatus W. Hague Harrington. 227 



Adults of the American Cimbex injuring the Willow and Cotton- 

 wood in Nebraska (illustrated) F. M. Webster. 228 



Observations on Monomorium pharaonis M. A. Bellevoye. 230 



The dipterous Parasite of Diabrotica soror (illustrated) D. W. Coquillett. 23S 



Spilosoma fuliginosa (illustrated) Otto Lugger. 236 



A Grub supposed to have traveled in the human Body (illustrated) 238 



The Dog-wood Saw-fly (illustrated) 239 



Platypsyllus — Egg and ultimate Larva (illustrated) C. V.Riley. 244 



Some new Parasites of the Grain Plant-louse (illustrated). i.O. Howard. 246 

 An Australian Hymenopterous Parasite of the Fluted Scale (illus- 

 trated) C. r. Riley. 248 



Extracts from Correspondence 250 



The Orchid Isosonia in America— A Flaxseed Mite— Abundance of JEgeria 

 acerwi— Hessian Fly in California — An Ivy Scale-insect— Ant Hills and 

 Slugs— A curious Case of insect Litigation — Two interesting Parasites- 

 Work of White Ants— Importation of Orange Pests from Florida to Cali- 

 fornia—On some Dung Flies — Spider Bites. 



General Notes 255 



Insects atfecting Salsify — An Egyptian Mealy-bug — A Case of excessive Para- 

 sitism — Some hitherto unrecorded Enemies of Easpberries and Black- 

 berries — Nebraska Insects — A Podurid which destroys the Red Rust of 

 Wheat — Insecticide Litigation — North European Dragon Flies — A Cor- 

 rection—A Parasite of the Mediterranean Flour-moth — Effects of the open 

 Winter — Honey Bees and Arsenicals used as Sprays — Entomological So- 

 ciety of Washington. 



