Some of the bred parasitic Hymenopteiia in the National Collection— 

 Coutinued 151 



Note upon Epiiestia ixterpunctella (Hiibn.) Zeller. 



WiUium JTampton Patton.. 158 



Notes upon some Insects affecting Corn F. M. Webster.. 159 



Extracts from Correspondence 160 



The Greea-striped Maple-worm — London Purple for the Rose Chafer — 

 Maple Tree Borers — A Bot-fly infesting Hogs — A Peach-tree Leaf- 

 beetle— Mites in a Warm House — A Beetle in Stramonium— The Pear 

 Slug on Plum — The Locust Hispa— Importation of Hessian Fly Para- 

 sites — Insects determined — Cheese Mite — Fighting the Rose Chafer — 

 Wire- worm Damage to Onions — Orange-tree Bark-borers — Rhizococcus 

 on Grass — The Grape Curculio- Scale Insects in California — Household 

 Pests— The Rose Chafer on Clay Lands— Tomato Worm— The Pear 

 Slug on Quince. 

 General Notes 172 



Destructive Locusts in Mesopotamia— Phosphorescent Centipedes — Further 

 Observations on the Parasitism of Datana angusii — Bird Enemies of 

 the Colorado Potato-beetle — Prof. L. H. Bailey's spraying Device — 

 Silk-worm Disease in China — Fumigating for Scale Insects— Swarming 

 of a Cricket and a Ground-beetle in Texas — A Parasite of the Willow 

 Cimbex — Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTEXTS OF NO. 5. 



Editorial Note 179 



Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Association of 



Economic Entomologists 180 



The Outlook for Applied Entomology C. J\ Tdhy.. 181 



Work of the Entomologists in the Experiment Stations..-!. J. Cook.. 212 



Fertilizers as Insecticides J. B. Smith . . 217 



The Habits of Pachyneuron L. 0. Howard.. 218 



Notes on the Plum Curculio J. B. SynitJi . . 219 



An Experience with the Rose Bug J.B.Smith.. 220 



Some Questions Relating to Aphidide J. B. Sm ith . . 226 



Notes on the Plum Curculio and Plum Gouger C.P. Gillette.. 227 



Notes on Beet Insects Laurence Br uner.. 229 



An Invasion by the Clover-Leaf Beetle J. B.Smith.. 231 



A Summary History of the Corn-root Aphis S. A. Forbes.. 233 



Ox the Life History of the White Grubs S.A. Forbes . . 239 



The Life-History of Wire Worms C. A. Hart.. 246 



Notes upon Injurious Insects of the Year in Canada.. Jas. Fletcher.. 247 



List of Members of the Associ-\TiON of Economic Entomologists. 250 



CONTENTS OF NO. G. 



Special Notes (illustrated) 251 



Proceedings of the Permanent Committee on Entomology of the As- 

 sociation of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions 258 



Notes on Certain Experiments and Observations at the Iowa Experiment 



Station C. P. Gillette.. 258 



A new Root-rot Disease of Cotton G. F. Atkinson . . 262 



New Notes on the Life-history of tlic Hessian Fly J. Marten . . 265 



The Laboratory Method of Experimentation C. W. Ifoodworth . . 266 



