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Introduction 7 



The Ambrosia Beetles of the United States (illustrated) H. G. Hubbard.. 



( rBASSHi >PPEB Eeport for 1895 Laurent e limner.. 31 



Grasshopper Eeport for 1896 Laurener Bruner.. 36 



Some Insects Affecting the Hop Plant (illustrated) L. 0. Howard.. 



The Plum Plant-louse (My:us mahahb Fonsc. ) Theodore Pernande.. 



The Rose Leaf-beetle (Xodonota puncticoUis Say) (illustrated) 



F. If. Chittendi n.. 60 



A Case of Excessive Parasiti-m L. O. Howard . . 62 



The Walnut Spanworm (Boarmia plundgeraria Hulst. ) (illustrated) 



U. TV. Coquillett.. 64 



Insect Injury to Chestnut and Pine Trees in Virginia and Neighbor- 

 ing States (illustrated) F. H. Chittenden . . 67 



Ttenfkal Note- 76 



A Leaf-uiiner of Tobacco (p. 76) — A Gall-making Coccid in America (illus- 

 trated (p. 76) — Damage by the White Pine Butterfly (p. 77 — Recent 

 Damage by the Strawberry Weevil (p. 78) — Xote on the Ambrosia-feeding 

 Scolytid (Xyleborus tachygraphus Zimm) (p. 79) — The Harlequin Cabl) _ 

 Bug on Asparagus (p. 80) — Meal-worms in Soda Ash p. Si — Australian 

 and New Zealand Coccidse (p. 81) — Two Apple Insects Liable to Impor- 

 tation (p. 82) — A Xew Direct Benefit from Insects (p. 82) — Additional 

 Popular Names for Corydalis eornnta (p. 82). 



Notes Fr< >m C< >rke8PONDence ' si 



Eastern Insects reported in British Columbia (p. 84 I — A Wasp attacking 

 Codling Moth Larv;e (p. 84) — Cells of a Leaf-cutter Bee in a Curious 

 Place (p. 84) — Birds Eating Leaf-miners (p. 84) — A migration of Colia* 

 ceesonia (p. 84)— Boll Worm Damage to Strawberry Plants (p. M — Injury 

 to Apples by the Ash-gray Pinion (p. 84) — Scolytid Beetles boring into 

 Wine Casks (p. 85) — Invasion of a Caralud Beetle (p. 85) — An Unwel- 

 come insect Imported via the World's Fair (p. 85) — The Drug-store Bee- 

 tle Damaging Boots Again (p. 85) — Injury by the Three-striped Blister 

 Beetle (p. 85) — Oreodera in the West Indies (p. 85) — A New Locality for 

 Bruckus obsoletus (p. 85) — Hippelatea Plies and Sore 1 - — Larva- 



in the Ear (p. 86) — Early and New Appearances of the Horn Fly p So) — 

 A Man-infesting Bot (p. 86)— An Efficient Flycatcher (p. 86)— Habits of 

 Comastes robustus 0. S. (p. 86) — A Corn-feeding Syrphid Ely (p. 86)— 

 Damage to Chnfas by Cyrtoneurus muiabUit \ Plant-bag on I 



-ian Apricot Trees (p. 87) — Ckionaspia biclavi* in Mexico p.8? The 

 Hop Plant-louse in Japan (p.87) — Abundance of a Bed Mite in An 

 (p. 87) — Icerya piircha»i not in the Azores (p.87). 



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