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The Angoumois Grain Moth ok ''Fly Weevil" (dclcchia coralcUa) 



L. O. Eoward.. 825 



DEycBiPTiONS OF NooTiiD.E FROM THE Death Valley (illustrated) 



J. li. SmUh.. 328 



The Red-legged Flea-beetle (("/-ej^irfofZem r»//j>es L.) (illustrated) 334 



Extracts from CorrEvSpondence 342 



The Overflow Bug or " Grease Bug," a Plague in California — Is the English 

 Sparrow instrumental in Suppressing the Horse Bot-lly? — Notes on 

 some Gall insects and Parasites — An Intruder in California Vine- 

 yards — Living Insects in the Human Ear — Eucalyptus r.s. Mosquitos — 

 Another vegetarian Mosquito — Insect Injury to Cactus Plants — Gapes 

 in Fowls — The Clover Mite in Houses — The Utilization of Spider Silk — 

 Further concerning the new Chicken Plague in Texas — Painful Spider 

 Bites — Supposed Gall jSIites on Blue Gum. 



Notes from Correspondexts 349 



General Notes 351 



The Cherry-tree Tortrix (illustrated) — Insects said to Forecast the 

 Weather — What Constitutes a Species — The Ravages of Book Worms — 

 Further on Bee Stings and Rheumatism — The Mediterranean Flour- 

 moth again — Hellothis armir/er in Australia — Cut-worm damage to 

 Grapes in California — On the transformations of the Saturniidiie — The 

 Tityrus Butterfly attracted to Light — A Banana Borer in Trinidad — 

 The supposed Spread of the Gypsy Moth — Southern Range of the Col- 

 orado Potato-beetle — The Spotted Bean-beetle — The Palm Weevil in 

 British Honduras — Alum for Rose Chafers — A Mosquito Exterminator 

 — The Horn Fly in Canada — Recent Studies upon LaclniiclUnn acridiornm 

 Gd. — Gallmaking Coccida? — The Egyptian Icerya in India — Carbon 

 bisulphide for Hen Lice — The Long Scale not brought from Mexico to 

 California — An enemy of the Oyster-shell Bark-louse of the Apple — 

 An article on Scale-insects — North American Neuroptera — New Ento- 

 mological Publication — Entomological Society of Ontario — A new 

 Xiatented Insecticide — Why insects infest Plants — Insect legislation in 

 Massachusetts — Borers in Fig Trees — Food of a Tarantula in confine- 

 ment—Entomological Societv of AVashington. 



