VIII 



Mule-killer again— -lusects Identified — The Red Scale of the Orange in 

 Syria — Orange-tree Borers— Notes from New Mexico. 

 General Notes = 419 



Migratory Locusts in Australia — Some Oregon Work against Noxious In- 

 sects — Oviposition of Dectes sjyinosus — Remedies for tlie Yellow Scale — 

 The Flour Moth in Canada — A new Knemy of the Fall Web Worm — A 

 Cherry-tree Borer in Maine — The Egyptian Icerya — Chinese Wax — A 

 New Zealand Frog-hopper — The Green Beetle Pest in Australia — The 

 Bite of Latrodectus — Matters in California — Home-grown Pyrethrum in 

 Cape Colony — Popular Lectures on Insects — Journalistic Enterprise — 

 Entomological Excursion — Obituary — Entomological Society of Wash- 

 iugton. 



CONTENTS OF NOS. 11 AND 12. 



Special Notes 



Some Icerya and Vedalia Notes (illustrated) , •.. 



Exfekiments with a Date Palm Scale 



A Viviparous Cockroach (illustrated) C. V. lUley.. 



The Grasserie of the Silkworm (illustrated) Philij) Walker.. 



Observations on injurious ^nd other Insects of Arkansas and Texas — 



• F.M. Wehsttr.. 



An Encoitid with six-branched Antennje (illustrated).. TFiZZtawi J?. Ash- 

 mead 



History of the Hydrocyanic Acid Gas Treatment for Scale Insects — 



D. W. CoqniUett.. 



Some of the Bred Parasitic Hymenoptera in the National Collec- 

 tion (continued) '. 



Description of a new Tortrix from California Lord Walsivgham.. 



Extracts fr3m Correspondence 



Experiments with Bacterial Cultures against Insects — Correspondence 

 from Indian Territory — Notes on three Noxious Insects of Mississippi — 

 Sure Way to destroy Nests of Harvesting Ants — Willow Hedges in- 

 jured by Saw-flies — Oak Furniture damaged by Borers—The White 

 Pine Weevil — A Lampyrid infested with Mites — Diabrotica injuring 

 Corn in California— A New Pest to Prune Trees— The Pear-blight Bee- 

 tle and Plum Plant-louse -Caterpillars migrating in Midwinter — The 

 Grapevine Plume-Moth— Parasites of Forest Tent-caterpillars — An An- 

 thomyiid injuring Sugar Beets — Remedies against Sand-flies and Mos- 

 quitoes — The Horse Fly in Vriginia — A Plague of Grasshoppers and 

 Spiders in Idaho — Pacific Coast Termites. 



General Notes 



Massachusetts Laws and Regulations against the Gypsy Moth— The Exter- 

 mination of the Gypsy Moth— Hot Water for the Rose Chafer — New 

 Horticultural Laws from California — Insects stopping Trains- a true 

 story — Some Notes on Iowa Insects— Precautions in investigating the 

 Bites of Poisonous Animals — Some Tasmanian Fruit Pests — African 

 Micro-lepidoptera — Effects of Temperature on the Coloring of Lepi- 

 doptera — Another Carnivorous Butterfly — Silk Nest of a Mexican Social 

 Larva — Tent Caterpillars in Eastern Connecticut — Paris Greeu for Cab- 

 bage Worms — An Experiment against Wliite Grubs— More Damage to 

 Corn by the Brassy Flea- beetle— Phytophagic Dung-beetles— Germina- 

 tion of Weeviled Peas — The Devastatiug Locust in California— Hop 

 Lice on the Pacific Coast — Made Insane by Destroyiug Caterpillars — A 

 New Entomological Society — More concerning the Bite of the Katipo — 

 Obituary— The Entomological Society of Washington. 



