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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 1. 



Page. 



Special Notes 1 



A Peach Pest in Bermuda (illustrated) 5 



Notes upon the Caxker Worm C. JV. Hargitt.. 8 



Monostegia igxota Norton F. JV. MaUy . 9 



L ARV.i: OF A Crane-fly destroying young Wheat in Indiana . F. M. Webster . . 12 

 Some of the parasitic bred Hymenoptera in the National Collection— 



Continued 15 



How ARE Insect Vivaria to be lighted ? A. H. Sainton . . 18 



Extracts from Correspondence 19 



A Rose Pest.— A Parasite, of A<^rilus. — The Ladj'-bird Parasite.— The Tent 

 Caterpillar.— The Horn Fly. — A Jack Rabhit Parasite.— Supposed Bed- 

 bugs uuder Bark of Trees.— The Orcliid Isosoiiia again. — Eristalis in 

 Well Water. — The Bryobia Household Pest. — Florida Orange Scales in 

 California. — The Larva of the Ox Bot-tly.— The Fuchsia Beetle. — Para- 

 siteson Datana ministra. — ATineid {Anaphora popeanellaCl&m.) injuring 

 Indian Corn. 



General Notes 28 



Etiects of London Purple on Foliage. — The Tulip-tree Scale-insect. — Anew- 

 Enemy to Rye. —Some Cases of Australian Spider Bites. — A new Pest in 

 New South Wales. — Barbadoes Sugar-cane Mites. — A Remedy for Cab- 

 bage Worms. — London Purple.— A little-used Bibliography. — New 

 Genera and Speciesof Phycitidie. — A social Papilio Larva.— Remarkable 

 Case of Retardation. — An important Work on European Grape Insects. — 

 Dermestid Beetles infesting Museums. — Cerambycid Larvje occasionally 

 beneficial. — Dimorphic Females of Butterflies. — An improved Insect 

 Lime. — Utilization of the Sting of the Honey Bee in Therapeutics. — On 

 Otiorhynchidie. — A cheap Spraying Apparatus. — A Paper on Myiasis. — 

 Codling Moth Remedies.— Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 2. 



Special Notes 41 



The Clover Mite (illustrated) C. V. Eiley and C. L. Marlatt.. 45 



Report on an Outbreak of the Army Worm and on some other Insects 



affecting Gi{ain in Maryland U\ H. Jshnuad . . 53 



Some of the bred parasitic Hymenoptera in the National Collection.. 57 



Descriptions of certain Lepidopterous Larv^ Harrison G. Dyar.. Gl 



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