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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CONTENTS OF No. 1. 



Page. 



Special Notes 1 



KosE Saw-flies in the United States (illustrated) C. V. Riley.. 6 



Ax Experiment against Mosquitoes L. 0. Howard. . 12 



Occurrence of Bmculatrix cauadensisella Chaml). on Birches in Rhode Is- 

 land (illustrated) A. S. FacJcard.. 14 



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



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



The Dipter(^us Parasite of Melanopliis deoastator in California. 



n. JV, CoquilleU.. 22 



A new Sweet Potato ^aw-fi.y (^Schizocerus privatus'NoiiT.) (illustrated). 



C. L. Marlatt.. 24 



On the Nomenclature and on the Oviposition of the Bean Weevil 



(Brnclms obtectus 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 I^otato-beetle — A Vineyard Pest, Anomala 

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

 Queensland — A Snout-beetle, Otiorhynchus ovatus, under Carjjets — The 

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

 the Boll Worm — 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 Correspondents 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 — Tlie larval Habits of Thalpocltares 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 Coffee 

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

 Louse — Deltoid Moths — Phaiism in Insects — Caution to Hop-growers^ 

 A new Simulium — Notes on Economic Entomology — Annual Meeting 



of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



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