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Extracts from Correspondexce 256 



Color of a Host and its Eelation to Parasitism — Fo^vls and Toads vs. Gar- 

 den Insects — Bisulphide of Carbon against Grain Pests; Additional 

 Correspondence — On Irrigation and its Effects on Insects — A tropical 

 Honey Bee — A lioney-iirodncing Ant — The Jumping Bean again — A 

 Boll AVorm Crusher — Wax Moths in a Cupboard — On the Habits of 

 some Blister-beetles — The Sweet-potato Eoot-weevil — A Weevil in 

 Mullein Seeds — A new Enemy to Cypress Hedges in California — 

 Another A^egetarian Mosquito — The Cluster Fly Household Pest — 

 Chrysanthemums and the Drone-fly — The Orange Fruit-fly in Malta — 

 Plant-bugs injuring Oranges in Florida — Fowls killed by Mole-crick- 

 ets — Eoaches in Brazil — Screw-worms and the man-infesting Bot in 

 Brazil — The Chipping Sparrow and House Wren as Insect Destroyers — 

 The Clover Mite in Houses again — A new Chicken Plague in Texas. 



Notes from Coerespoxdexts .' 267 



General Notes 269 



An Enemy of the Screw Worm Fly — The Archippus Butterfly eaten by 

 Mice — Notes on some Insect Pests of the Fiji Islands — Entomology at 

 the Iowa State University — Local Names for commo"n Insects — Legis- 

 lation against Spraying — An Exhibition of Spraying Machines — Eco- 

 nomic Entomology at the Cape of Good Hoj)e— Parasites of Animals 

 transmissible to Man — Further Illustrations of the Eose Sings (illus- 

 trated) — Cockroach Egg Parasites — The Hymenoptera of Australia — 

 The Genus Mirax — An Important Paper on Butterflies— The Tobacco 

 Sphinx in Louisiana — Canker-worms in California— The Mediterranean 

 Flour Moth in California — Tent Caterpillars in Massachusetts — Eesults 

 of Codling Moth Legislation in Tasmania — A Vine Pest in Australia 

 — The Sugar-cane Pin-borer again — The Mustard Beetle in Eng- 

 land — New Si)ecies and Genera of Ehynchophora — Westward Spread 

 of the Clover-leaf WeeWl — The larval Habits of the Acalyptrate 

 Muscidae — A blood-sucking Chironomid — The Family ApioceridsB — 

 The California Eemedy for the San Jose Scale — Introduction of the 

 Long Scale into California — Imported Scales in California — The Mem- 

 bracidse of North America — A new Enemy of the Tomato — An Insect 

 Enemy of Lace Curtains — Locusts in South Africa — North American 

 Species of Hippiscus — An extreme Case of Norway Itch — On Harvest 

 Spiders — A curious Parasite of the Pelican — Proceedings of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Washington — Obituary — The Manna Scale — A 

 curious Seed-pod Deformation — The Zebra Caterpillar on the Pacific 

 Coast — Entomological Society of Washington. 



CONTENTS OF No. 5. 



Special Notes 289 



The Present Year's Appearances of the Periodical Cicada 298 



Further Notes on Yucca insects and Yucca Pollixation (illustrated) 



C. V. Biley, Ph. D.. 300 



Ox THE Pollixatiox OF YuccA WHiPPLEi IX' Califorxia-.X). TV. CoquUlett . . 311 

 The Cocoaxut axd Guava Mealy-wing {Ahurodicus cocois Curtis) (illus- 

 trated) 314 



Further Notes on the Cottontail Bot with the Breeding and Idex- 



TiFiCATiox OF THE Fly C. H. TijUr Toifusencl . . 317 



The Sugar-beet Web- worm (Loxostege sticticalis L.) (illustrated) 320 



Keport ox a Trip to Northwest Missouri to Ixvestigate Grasshopper 



IXJURIES Herbert Oshorn .. 323 



