VI 



Proceedings of the Pehmanent Committee on Entomology, etc- 

 Contiuueil. 



Practical Notes ou the Use of Insecticides -. M. H. Beckwith . . 209 



Life-history of Pimpla inquisitor CM. Weed . . 275 



The Host Relations of Parasitic Hymeuoptera L. 0. Howard.. 277 



Experiments for the Destruction of Chinch Bugs in the Field hy the Arti- 

 ficial Introduction of Contagious Diseases F. H. Snow.. 279 



Fifth Contribution to a Knowledge op Certain Little- known Aphid- 



ID.E C. M. Weed.. 285 



Extracts from Correspondence 293 



The Clover-seed Midge in England, and other Notes — The Mantis not Poi- 

 sonous — A Eose Cecidomyiid — The Habits of Phorodon in Oregon — 

 Schizoneura tesselhita —Woodpeckers vs. the Tussock Moth — Abaormal 

 Oviposition of Microceutrum — Dimorphism in Butterflies, and Miscella- 

 neous Notes — Kerosene Emulsion against the Sheep Sc§ib — On Nola 

 sexmaculata and the Japanese Gypsy Moth. 



General Notes 297 



A Fig-leaf Beetle in Australia — Will Ramie support the Silkworm of Com- 

 merce — Damage by the Red Scale growing less — A Grape-vine Pest — 

 Tin Cans vs. Crickets — Notes on Fruit-tree Insects — Gall-producing 

 Heteroptera — Thripida) injurious to cultivated plants — A Systematic 

 Work on Gall-mites — More facts concerning the Katipo — Popular Names 

 of Insects. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 7 AND 8. 



Special Notes 305 



The Xanthium Trypj:ta— Trypeta .i^qualis (illustrated). ..(7. L. Marlatt.. 312 



Variations in the Braconid Genus Lysiphlebus D. W. Coquillett.. 313 



Birth of a beautiful exotic Lepidopterous Insect in New York (illus- 

 trated) Henry Edwards . . 316 



The Strawberry-leaf Flea-beetle, Haltica igmta, in Indiana — 



F. AL Webster.. 317 



Another parasitic Rove-beetle B. W. Coquillett.. 318 



Phosphorescent Myjuopods Lawrence Bruner.. 319 



The Preparatory Stages of Eustrotia caduca D. S. Eellicott.. 321 



A List of Sphingid.e and Bombycid.e taken by electric lamps at 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y Harrison G. Dyar.. 322 



Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, t&tc. Lord Walsingham.. 325 



Extracts from Correspondence 329 



The Iccrya in Honolulu — List of Coleopterous Larva? sent by C. V. Riley to 

 F. Meinert, of Copenhagen, for the University Museum, in exchange 

 for European specimens from the Schiodte Collections— Eggs of the 

 American Meromyza : A Correction — Beetles and Moths infesting Stored 

 Corn in Venezuela — Sweet Potato Root-borer— The Whip-tail Scor- 

 pion — Horse-flies in Texas — A Borer in a Tree Fungus— Migration of 

 Callidryas cubule — The Brassy Flea-beetle injuring Corn — The 

 Banded Sand Cricket— A Curious Bed-bug Find— The Poisonous Spider 

 of Australia — Notes from Mississippi — Carnivorous Habits of Locusts — 

 Gelechia cerealella in Virginia — Appearance of Wheat infested with 

 Hessian Fly— House-fly Parasites —Night Swarming of Lace-wing 

 Flies. 



General Notes 341 



Recent Papers on European Grape Insects — Codling-moth Legislation in 

 New Zealand— Feeding Habits of the Bee-moth— Tineid Moths with 

 Piercing Ovipositor -Alterations in the Form of Plants due to Coc- 

 cidaB— Insect Injury to Barrel Staves— Cocaine for Insect Stings — 



