VI 
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE—Continued. 
United States—Mites on a Maple Aphid—-Seales from Tahiti—Plant- 
louse on Celery—The Rose Diaspis—Scale-insects from Trinidad—A 
Vegetarian Mosquito—Gregarious ‘‘Snake-worms’”—Abundance of the 
Clover Mite in Michigan—Urine recommended for Eel-worms. 
GENERAL NOTES 34-242 bee ro cine el cides la ae hee Bee ee ea) 
Vedalia and Icerya in New Zealand—The Chinese Insect-fungus Drug 
(illustrated)—The Difficulty of disinfecting imported Plants—Fumi- 
gating at Night not necessary—Hemlock Damage by the Larch Saw- 
fly—A Clematis Root-borer (illustrated)—The Spread of the Gypsy 
Moth—Micropteryx: A remarkable Lepidopterous Larva—Damage 
to Apple Trees near London—An Enemy of the Tussock Moth—The 
Black Vine-weevil: A Hot-house Pest—Hemp as a Protection against 
Weevils—Cave Glow-worms of Tasmania—The best Mosquito Rem- 
edy—The True Bugs or Heteroptera of 'Tennessee—The Phylloxera in 
France and the American Vine—Remedies for the Phylloxera at the 
Cape of Good Hope—Abundance of the Pear-tree Psylla in New York— 
The Evolution of a Newspaper Statement—A Note on Physiological 
Chemistry—Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario— 
A Japanese Parasite of the Gypsy Moth—Prof. Smith’s European Trip— 
A useful Beetle Mite—Change of Location—Entomological Society of 
Washington. 
CONTENTS OF NOS. 7 AND 8. 
SPECUAD NOTES 6. Soni te bees eke Se betes ees te Se Se en ee eee 
THE POTATO-TUBER MOTH (Lita solanella Boisd.) (illustrated)-.......--....- 
A GENUS OF MANTIS EGG-PARASITES (illustrated)...-.....---.-----------.-- 
NOTES ON THE GRAIN TOXOPTERA (Toxoptera graminum Rond.).F. M. Webster - - 
THE LARGER DIGGER-WASP (illustrated)-...-.....-..------------ C. V. Riley. - 
Phi ABIIS OF HLASMUS: Gllustrated):-- 2. 3222-2 ae ge L. O. Howard... 
BEES OF GREAT VALUE TO FRUIT AND SEED GROWERS...... Frank Benton. .- 
SOME BRED WEST VIRGINIA BRACONIDZ....-.---.---------- A. D. Hopkins... 
NOTES ON THE HABIRS OF SOME CALIFORNIA COLEOPTERA. D. W. Coquillett.. 
EARLY PUBLISHED REFERENCES TO SOME OF OUR INJURIOUS INSECTS..---...- 
3 OSS SNe NS Se ee ae ee EI AP een ee mere Here EN Le FF. M. Webster.. 
THE COLOR OF A HOST AND ITS RELATION TO PARASITISM ......---.-.------ 
Oe Re oe ee ike oe ad eh Ps ee eee Ses Seale C. W. Stiles and A. Hassall.. 
EXCERACTS PROM CORRESPONDENCE: os. . oo fs se 2 lesen st ee oe eee ee ee 
The Effects of a Spider Bite on a Child—Insect Pests in Bermuda—Insect 
Injury to Cocoanut Palms—Biological Notes on Micracis, Chramesus, 
and Coscinoptera—Remedies for Wireworms—Coleopterous Larve in a 
Cistern—A Longicorn Borer in Apple Roots—Was it Diabrotica 12-pune- 
tata?—The Clover-leaf Beetle in western Pennsylvania—The Rice 
Weevil in dry Hop Yeast—How to Kill Tree-borers—Note on the 
Carphoxera Herbarium Pest—Treatment of the Squash Borer—Where 
are the Eggs of the Clover Hay-worm laid?—The Box-elder Bug at- 
tacking Fruit in Washington State—Notes on the ‘ Blood-sucking 
Cone-nose”—The Orange-leaf Aleyrodes—Orange Chionaspis in Flor- 
ida—On the Treatment of Human Patients affected with Screw Worm— 
Bot-fly Larve burrowing under the Skin of Man—The Horn Fly in 
Mississippi—A southern Cricket destructive to the Strawberry—In- 
sanity caused by Mosquito Bites; Hibernation of Mosquitoes—Death 
of an Infant from a Spider Bite—On the poisonous Bite of the Spider, 
Latrodectus mactans—Death due to the Whip Scorpion and Tarantula— 
Tame Birds as Insect Destroyers. 
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