CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Special Notes 263 



Some insect Pests op the Household— Cockroaches (illustrated) 



C. V.Riley.. 266 



Two Spider-egg Parasites (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 269 



On the parasitic Castration of Typhlocyba by the Larva of a Hymen- 



opter and that of a Dipter M. A. Giarcl.. 271 



A poisonous Spider in Madagascar 273 



Extracts from Correspondence 275 



Injury to Grass from Gasfroidea polytjoni — Resiu Wash against Mealy 

 Bug and Woolly Aphis — Dnjocampa rubicunda — Combined Spraying for 

 Bark-lice and Codling Moth — Greenhouse Pests — Euphoria damaging 

 green Corn — The Indian-meal Moth in Kansas — A Cocoanut Pest to be 

 guarded against — Food of the ScydnisBuidie — Abundance of Bryohia 

 pratensis — Larval Habits of XyJehorus dispar — Insects from Iowa — A 

 Grasshopper Letter from Utah — Another Insect impressed in Paper — 

 The " Katy-did" Call — Notes of the Season from Mississippi. 



Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, with Notes and Descrip- 

 tions OF NEW Species Lord Walsingham . . 284 



General Notes 286 



The Wheat Saw-fly — Tasmanian Lady Birds and the American Blight — 

 Flies on AppleTwigs in New Zealand — Nomenclature of Blister Beetles — 

 Plant Importation into Italy— Traps for the Winter Moth useless— A 

 new Elm Insect — Soot as a Remedy for Woolly Apple-louse — Metamor- 

 phoses of Fleas— The Eatomological Society of Washington. 

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