

TABLE OF CONTEiNTS. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 1. 



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Salutatory 3 



The Corn-pollen Syrphus-fly (illustrated) 5 



The Willow-shoot Saw-fly (illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 8 



The Sugar-cane Beetle INJURING Corn L. 0. Howard.. 11 



Extracts from Correspondence 13 



Garden Web-worm. — A new Enemy to the Date Palm in Florida. — A Vir- 

 ginia Simulium called "Cholera Gnat." — The Black-polled Titmouse 

 destroying Canker Worms. — Kerosene Emulsion for the Cabbage Mag- 

 got. — After Effect of the Oviposition of the Periodical Cicada. —More Tes- 

 timony on the Buckwheat Remedy for Cut- worms. — An Application for 

 Buffalo Gnat Bites. — Relative Merits of arsenical Solniions. — Probably 

 a new Enemy to Pear from Oregon. — An extraordinary Flight of Lach- 

 nosterna. — Lime and Tobacco for Currant-worms. — Some Notes from 

 Mississippi. 



New Species of Oncocnemis John B. Smith . . 18 



The Australian Parasite of Icerya PURCHASi(illustrated). aS. TF.TTinjsfon.. 21 



The Privet Web-worm (illustrated) 22 



Notes 26 



Chinch Bug in California.— German Phylloxera Laws.— Kerosene Emulsion 

 against Cabbage Worms.— Swarmingof Hackberry Butterflies.— South- 

 ward Spread of the Asparagus Beetle. —Caterpillars stopping Traius.— 

 Injury by the Rocky Mountain Locust. — The Periodical Cicada in 

 1838.- The Chinch Bug in 1888. — Increase of CryptocephaJus venns- 

 tus.— The Hessian Fly half way around the World.—" Eau celeste " for 

 the Rose Beetle. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 2. 



The Yellow-spotted Willow-slug (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 33 



Notes on Eum.eus atala (illustrated) E. A. Schwarz.. 37 



Supplementary Report on the Gas Treatment for Scale-insects 



D.W.CoquiUett.. 41 



External Spider Parasites L. O.Howard.. 42 



The Sweet-potato Saw-fly (illustrated) 43 



The Morelos Orange Fruit- worm (illustrated) C. V.Miley.. 45 



Kerosene Emulsion as a Remedy for White Grubs 48 



Extracts from Correspondence 50 



A new Tomato Enemy in Georgia.— Precursors of Brood V of the Periodical 

 Cicada.— Mites infesting an old Grain Elevator.— The Streaked Cotton- 

 wood Leaf-beetle in the East.— Hibernation of Mosquitoes.— Leaf Hop- 

 pers and the "Die-back "of the Orange.— The Barnacle Scale injuring 



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