CONTENTS. 



Special IS otes 1 



Rose Saw-flies in the United States (illustrated) C. V. BUen.. 6 



An Expekiment against Mosquitoes L. O. Howard.. 12 



Occurrence of Bucculatrix canadensisella Chamb. on Birches in Rhode Is- 



LA^D (illustrated) A.S. Packard. . 14 



New Injurious Insects of a Year C. V. Biley.. 16 



Notes on the Larva of Amphizoa (illustrated) Henry G. Rnhhard. . 19 



The Dipterous Parasite of Melanoplus devastator in California. 



D. TV. Coquillett.. 22 



A NEW Sweet Potato Saw-fly (Scliizocerus xtrivatita Nort.) (illustrated). 



ex. Marlatt.. 24 



On the Nomenclature and on the Oviposition of the Bean Weevil 



( Bruchus ohtectus Say) 27 



Notes on the Habits of some Species of Coleoptera observed in San 

 Diego County, Cal F. E. Blaisdell.. 33 



• Lucilia nobilis parasitic on Man (translation) Fr. Meinert .. 36 



* Biologic Notes on New Mexico Insects C. H. Tyler Townsend.. 37 



; Further Notes on the new Herbarium Pest C. V. Biley.. 40 



The Australian Enemies of the Red and Black Scales 41 



Extracts from Correspondence 43 



On the Carbon Bisulphide Remedy against stored Grain Pests — On the first 

 , use of Paris Green for the Potato-beetle — A Vineyard Pest, Anomalamar- 



'i ginata, in North Carolina — A "White Grub " Pest of Sugar Cane in' 



Queensland — A Snout-beetle, Otiorhynchus ovaius, under Carpets — The 

 Grape-seed Weevil — A new Enemy of Cotton — Corn as a Trap Crop for 

 the Boll AVorm— Silk Gut from native Silk- worms — Corn Stalk-borer in 

 Virginia — A Leaf-roller on Shade Trees in Colorado — Coloring Matter 



of the Plant-louse of the Golden Rod 



Notes from Correspondence 49 



General Notes 51 



Sugar-cane Pin-borer and Cane Disease — Notes from the Jamaica Museum — 

 An Exploded Remedy for the Plum Curculio— Good Work of the Twice- 

 stabbed Ladybird— Notes on Ohio Coleoptera— The Clover-leaf Weevil 

 in Ohio — The Japanese Gypsy Moth and its Parasite — A new Sugar- 

 beet Pest — The larval Habits of Tludpochares coccipliaya — Locusts in 

 Algeria — Changes of Color in Schistocerca pereyrina 01. — Grasshoppers 

 in the East— The Bot-fly of Human Beings— A new Tabanid— The 

 Chinch Bug in Illinois, 1891, 1892— The Mealy Bug damaging Coflee 

 in Mexico — The Hop Plant-louse in Washington — Ticking of the Book 

 Louse — Deltoid Moths — Phjeismin Insects— Caution to Hop-growers — 

 A new Simulium— Notes on Economic Entomology — Annual Meeting 

 of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



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