Pajre. 

 General Notes 118 



Synonymy of the Mealy Bug of the Orange. — Entomology in Chili. — Larva 



of the Clover Stem-borer as a Gall-maker. — The Use of Osage Orange 



as a Food for Silk- worms. — The Pear Diplosis in England. — The Orchid 



Isosoma, and a Remedy for its Injury. — False Report of Phylloxera in 



Australia. — Apropos to Hot Water as an Insecticide. — Value of dead 



Locusts as Manure. — The Insidious Flower-bug. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 5. 



Special Notes 123 



Some recent entomological Matters of international Concern 



(illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 126 



The Food-habits of the Thripid.e Herbert Osburn .. 137 



Extracts from Correspondence 142 



Danger to human Beings from use of Paris green. — The Clover Seed-midge 

 in Ohio. — Formula for a Buffalo Gnat Application. — The acid Secretion 

 oiNotodonta concinna. — Out-of-door Hibernation of Leeanium hemispheeri- 

 cum in Pennsylvania. — The Introduction of Lestophonus iceryce. — A 

 House infested with Psocidte. 



Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, etc Lord Walaingham.. 14.5 



General Notes 151 



A recent British entomological Circular. — Two Suggestions to Students of 

 Entomology. — The Relation of Ants to the Corn Aphis. — Insects intro- 

 duced into Chili. — Remarkable Abundance of the Cecropia Silk- worm. — 

 The Clover-root Borer. — A Point in Favor of the English Sparrow. — The 

 Rear-horse domesticated. — A California Enemy to Walnuts. — Little 

 known Enemies of the Potato Plant in New York. — Prof. Forbes' Inves- 

 tigation on the Food of fresh-water Fishes. — The Hosts of a few larger 

 Ichneumonids. — The Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 6. 



Special Notes 163 



The Habits of Thalessa and Tremex (illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 168 



Notes on Lachnosterna fusca (illustrated) J. B.Smith.. 180 



A Sandwich Island Sugar-cane Borer (illustrated) 185 



Extracts from Correspondence VjO 



The " Red Bug " iujariug Oranges again. — Further Injury in the Treasury 

 by Roaches. — Beetles supposed to have been passed by a Patient. — A 

 Tineid on Carpets in Texas. — Leaf-stripping Ants in Arizona. — The Hes- 

 sian Fly in England. — Stinging Caterpillar of Lagoa opercularis. — Re- 

 buttal of Wier's Statements regarding the Plum Curculio. 



General Notes 193 



Grain Insects in Australia. — Further concerning the Locust War in Al- 

 geria. — An important Contribution to Lepidopterology. — The poison- 

 ous Nature of the Meconium of Lepidoptera. — The Peach-twig Moth 

 and its Parasite. — Two abnormal Honey Bees. — Reappearance of Lack- 

 nus plataiiicola. — Two alien Pests of the Greenhouse. — The Food-habits 

 of North American Calandrid;e. — The natural Food-plant of Graptodera 

 foliacea. — A remarkable Insect Enemy to Live Stock. — Further on the 

 Importation of Lestophonus. — The Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington. 



