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Page. 

 Derinestes vulpiuus damaging "Woodwork — Birds preying on the Wal- 

 nut Caterpillar — Attempted Introduction of an insectivorous Bird into 

 Algeria— Notes on miscellaneous Fruit Insects— The Codling Moth us 

 a Friend — A Winter Wash for Scale-insects — Lady Birds versus Scale- 

 insects — The Tarnished Plant-hug damaging Celery — The Downy 

 Woodpecker feeding on the larv;e of the Codling Moth — Oviposition 

 in Adoxus vitis— A Caterpillar descrihed as a Coccid — Injury of the 

 Hop Crop on the Pacific Slope in 1*'90 hy the Hop-louse — The Hop- 

 louse in Oregon — Collections of Coleoptera : A recent important sale — 

 Diseases of Chrysanthemums caused by Insects — Insect Wax — Cocci- 

 nella Xova-zealandica a Synonym — Australian Fruit-growers and Vine- 

 growers in Convention — A new Phylloxera Station in Brazil — A Soldier- 

 beetle Larva eating Spiders' Eggs — Winter protection for the Vedalia — 

 Obituary— The Australian '• Fly Bug "—The Entomological Society of 

 Washington. 



CONTEXTS OF XOS. 9 AXD 10. 



Special XoTES 359 



Report of a Discussion on the Gypsy Moth, at a Conference held 



IN the Rooms of the Committee on Agkiculture, Boston, Mass 36S 



The Ravages of Liparis (Psilura) Monacha in Germany and Means of 



Defense B. E. Fernoic. 379 



A NEW Scale-insect from California D. jr. Coquillett.. 382 



Notes on the Habits and Earlier Stages of Cryptophasa unipunctata 



DoN.iN Australia Henry Edwards.. 384 



Steps TOWARDS a Revision of Chambers' Index, with notes and Descrip- 

 tions OF Xew^ Species Lord Wahingh am . . 386 



Descriptions of Certain Lepidopterous Larv.e Harrison G. Dyar.. 389 



Extracts from Correspondence 391 



The Quicksilver Remedy for Phylloxera — Another Spider Bite— The Cali- 

 fornia Peach-tree Borer — Some new Injurious Insects in Russia — Some 

 Traits of the English Sparrow in England — Codling Moth in New 

 Zealand— Icerya and Vedalia in Ncw Zealand and Australia— The Rhi- 

 noceros Beetle in a Woodshed— A Codling Moth Larva in March — Dip- 

 terous Larvai vomited by a Child — Economic Value of the Study of In- 

 sects — The Long Scale and the Wax Scale — Ducks and the Colorado 

 Potato-beetle— Damage to Geranium by Heliothis ; Cannibalistic Habit 

 of this Larva — A " Curious Condecsation" — The "Mexican Jumping 

 Bean"— The Use of Paris Green in England — Spraying for the Codling 

 Moth in Oregon— A Case of Stomach Bots in Hogs— Case of a Child 

 Swallowing and passing Grubs infesting Chestnut.s — Fertilization of 

 Red Clover by Bumble Bees — Sow Bugs Feeding on Living Plants — 

 Nezara again Injuring Plants — Mosquitoes in Boreal Latitudes— The 

 Mealy Bug — The Sweet Potato Root-borer— Parasites of the Apple-tree 

 ►Saperda — Museum Pests— Passalus for Ear-ache: Gall Insects — Phoro- 

 don Notes from Oregon — A Southern Roach in a Northern Greenhouse — 

 The Grape-root Prionus— A new native Currant Worm— Insects from 

 Montserrat, W. I.— The Desirability of Importing the Blastophaga for 

 the Smyrna Fig in California— The Cabbage Worm Disease— An Orange 

 Plant Bug from Australia— On Parasites of Lepidoptera— Un.slaked 

 Lime against the Ro.se Chafer— Al)undance of Bombardier Beetles- 

 Some new Parasites from California— A Tomato R. )ot-lonse— Ticks from 

 Texas— Flights of Dr.igon Flie.s— On the Oviposition of Tachina— Fig 

 Beetles— The Weeping Tree Phenomenon— Injury to Asters by the 

 Black Blister Beetle— Isosoma Notes from Washington State- The Texas 



