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Page. 



58 



67 



Extracts from Correspondence— Coutinaed. 



FeTsiuimou.—Eurijomia melancholica r.s. Cotton Bolls.— A Peach Frnit- 

 worm in Japan.— Hibernation of the Two-spotted Lady-bird.— Prior Is- 

 suing of the Male Sex of Cimbex.— Work of the Bronzy Cut-worm in 

 Missouri.— The Bamboo Sinoxylon.— The Western Cricket in 1887.— 

 Dicerca a Poplar Feeder.— An Enemy to Young Carp. 



Notes 



The Twelve-spotted Diabrotica injuring Fruit Trees.— Heat evolved from 

 the Work of a Bruchus. — Economic Entomology in India.— Buftalo 

 Gnats attacking Man.— New European natural Enemies to the Aspar- 

 agus Beetle.— Concerning the Uji Parasite of the Silk-worm. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 3. 



Editorials 63 



Notes on the Rocky Mountain Locust Lawrence Bruner.. 65 



Injury done by Roaches to the Files in the Treasury at Washing- 

 ton 



Further Notes on the Hop Plant-louse (Phorodon humuli).C. F.Biley.. 70 



Life-History of Graptodera foliacea Lee Mary E Murtfeldt.. 74 



A Man-infesting Bot (illustrated) Rudolph Matas, M. D.. 76 



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

 scriptions OF NEW Species Lord Walsingham . . 81 



Extracts from Correspondence 85 



The Strawberry Weevil in Pennsylvania. —Grap<o(iempM«c<yjen«is injuring 

 Nursery Stock. — Laclinosterna hirticula injuring Poplars and Oaks. — In- 

 sects confounded with the Hessian Fly prior to the Revolution.— Injury 

 from non-migratory Locusts in Michigan, — Australian Letters on Icerya. 



Notes 85 



A destructive Cricket in Louisiana. — A new Enemy to Honey Bees. — An un- 

 published Habit oi Allorhina nilida.—A new Remedy against the Woolly 

 Apple-louse.— Oviposition of the Plum Gouger.— Recent Swarmings of 

 Insects. — An inexpert Defense.— Insect Damage to the Corks of Wine- 

 bottles. — Locusts in Algeria. — Enemies of Icerya in New Zealand. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 4. 



Special Notes 93 



The Parsnip Web-woum (illustrated) C. F.Riley.. 94 



Notes on a Simulium common at Ithaca, N. Y L. 0. Howard.. 99 



A Lady Bird Parasite (illustrated) C V. Riley.. 101 



The Purslane Caterpillar (illustrated) 104 



Further concerning external Spider Parasites (illustrated) L. O. Howard 106 



Remarks ON THK Hessian Fly (Abstract of paper by C. V.Riley).. 107 



Extracts from Correspondence 108 



A Stomoxys Injuring Stock in Oregon. — The Colorado Potato-beetle in Nova 

 Scotia. — 1888 Damage by Chinch Bug in Missouri. — A problematical 

 Remedy agaiust the Asparagus Beetle. — Increased Ravages of Icerya in 

 California.— The Green-striped Maple-worm.— Wheat Saw-flies.— Was 

 it an Accident or a wily Milkman ? — Cranberry Gall-mites. — Notes on 

 the Chinch Bug in Minnesota. — Epidemic Diseases of the Chinch Bug 

 in Illinois. 

 Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, etc. (illustrated) 



Lord Walsingham .. 113 



