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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 1. 



Page. 

 Special Note** t 



Arsenical Poisons for the Plum and Peach Curculio S. A. Forbes . . 3 



Report of a Trip to investigate Buffalo Gnats C. L. Marlatt.. 7 



Notes on Noises made by Lepidoptera Henry Edwards .. 11 



A Letter on Icerya purchasi 15 



Extracts from Correspondence 17 



American Insecticides in India. — Sciapteron robinice in Cottonwood in Wash- 

 ington Territory. — A Fodder Worm in the South. — Col. Pearson's 

 Method of fighting Rose Beetles. — Lyctus sp. in Bamboo. — The Texas 

 Cattle-tick. — The Boll Worm in Texas. — A cosmopolitan Flour Pest. — 

 Mites on a Neck-tie. — The Potato Beetle in the South. — Swarming of 

 Urania boisduvalii in South America. — Letter on tbe~ proposed "Ameri- 

 can Entomologists' Union." ^ 



Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, etc Lord TValsingham.. 23 



General Notes 27 



Two local Outbreaks of Locusts.— Tent Caterpillar in Arkansas. — The 

 Thistle Caterpillar in Washington Territory. — The C^cropia Silk-worm 

 again. — Spraying for the Elm Leaf-beetle. — The Dingy Cutworm. — The 

 European White Grub. — A Wheat Pest in Cyprus. — The Entomological 

 Society of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF NO. 2. 



Special Notes 31 



Aggregate Damage from Cotton Worms in Texas, Crop of 1887.5. TY.Snoiv. 32 



A newly imported Elm Insect (illustrated)... L. 0. Howard.. 34 



Some Michigan Notes recorded C. H. Tyler Townsend.. 42 



Preliminary Note upon Chionobas (CEneis) macounii, Edw. (illus- 

 trated) James Fletcher.. 45 



Extracts from Correspondence 46 



Pieris rapce in California. — Poisonous Spiders. — A Spider-bite Contribu- 

 tion. — Blackbirds vs. Boll-worms.— Further on American Insecticides 

 in India. — A new Quince Enemy. — New Food-plant and Enemy of 

 Icerya. — The Red-legged Flea beetle again.— The Tarnished Plant-bug 

 on Pear and Apple. — IValshia amorphella and the Loco Weed. 



Steps towards a Revision of Chambers' Index, etc Lord Walsingham .. 51 



General Notes 54 



Honors to American Entomology. — A new East Indian Genus of Coccidie. — 

 Cannibalism with Lady-birds. — Damage by the Pear Midge.— Icerya 

 purchasi not in Florida. — A new State Board of Horticulture.— The 

 Army Worm in Indiana.— Doings of Agrotis ciqridissima.— The Disap- 

 pearance of Icerya in New Zealand.— A Peculiarity of certain Caddis- 

 flies. — Caterpillars stopping Trains.— Locusts in Algeria. — The New 

 Cattle-fly or Horn Fly. 



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