CONTENTS. 



Special Notes 335 



The I.vsect Collection of a large Museum (illustrated) C. V. Rtlen.. 342 



Notes on Languri a F. H. Chittenden . . 346 



Some of the bred parasitic Hymenoptera in the National Collection- 

 Family Braconid.e 348 



Anthrax parasitic ox Cut- worms (illustrated) 353 



Mountain Swarming of Vanessa calikornica ..C. L. Hopkins.. 355 



Notes on a Species of necrophagous Diptera F. M. Webster.. 356 



Additional Note ON Spider Egg-p rasites L. 0. Howard.. 359 



Preparatory Stages of Syntomeida epilais and Scepsis edwardsii 



Har) inon G. Dijar . . 360 



The Tulip Tree Leaf Gall-fly 362 



An Experiment with Coccinellid^ in the Conservatory.. F. M. Webster.. 363 



A North American Axima and its Habits (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 365 



Extracts from Correspondence 367 



The Scale Question iu Florida — A Palm leaf Scale iu Triuidad— The Cigar- 

 ette Beetle — A curious Case — Beneficial Beetles infested with Mites — 

 Flea Beetle Injury to Strawberries — Lecanium hesperidtim — Flies iu an 

 exhumed Corpse — The May Beetle aud the White Grub— Parorgyia on 

 Cranberry in Wisconsin — Helomijza sp. found in Mayfield Cave, In- 

 diana — A Cave Crustacean in a Well — Potato Stalk-borer in Corn and 

 Eag-weed — The Melon Worm — Cut Worms and Carnations — The Plant- 

 feeding Lady-bird and the Potato Stalk-beetle — Intrusion of the Elm 

 Leaf-beetle in Houses — Ee Lestophonus. 



General Notes 378 



Boiliug Water for Peach Borer — The Family Phylloxeridse — The newly 

 imported Rose Saw-fly — Testimoual to Mr. Koebele ~A Paradox — A rare 

 Sphingid — Anew Apple Pest— American Vines in France and the Phyl- 

 loxera — A new Australian Viue Pest — Trouble in California — Lepidopter- 

 ologicai Notes — The Puncturiug of Apples by the Plum Curculio — The 

 Vedalia in New Zealand : Recent Increase of leery a — The Phylloxera in 

 New Zealand — Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington — An Acknowledgment — The genital Armature in male Hy- 

 menoptera — The man-infesting Bot — The Eggs of Atherix — A Mono- 

 graph ot theEvaniidiB — Colonel Pearson on the Rose Chafer — The Co- 

 lumbus Horticultural Society — Mr. Bucktou's Mouograph of the British 

 Cicadai and Tettigiid* — Early Stages of the Odonata — Indian Museum 

 Notes No. 3 — The Chinch Bug Disease — Study of the Bird Lice — The 

 tropical Sugar-cane Borer in Louisiana — Importation of Hessian Fly 

 Parasites — Entomological Society of Washington. 

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