CONTENTS. 



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Special Notes 147 



The Glassy-winged Sharp-shooter (Homalodisca coagulata Say) (illus- 

 trated) 150 



The Osage Orange Pyralid (Loxostege maclurce Riley) (illustrated) 



Mary E. Murtfeldt . . 155 



The Food-plants of some Jamaican Coccid^ T. D. if. Cockerell. . 158 



The "maxillary Tentacles" of Pronuba {illustrated) John B. Smith.. 161 



The Potato-tuber Moth {Lita solanella Boisd.) R. Allan Wight. . 163 



Food-plants of North American Species of Bruchus 165 



The Strawberry Weevil (Anthonomus signatus Say) (illustrated) 



F. H. Chittenden.. 167 



Damage to Forests by the destructive Pine Bark Beetle {Dendroctonus 



frontalis Zimm. ) A. D. Hopkins. . 187 



An interesting Water Bug (Rheumatohates rileyi Berg.) (illustrated) 189 



Extracts from Correspondence 194 



Further Notes on the Japanese Gypsy Moth and its Parasite — Injurious 

 Insects in Nebraska : Season 1892 — A Household Ant of British Hon- 

 duras — House Ants of Mexico — The Stony Acorn Gall — Destructive 

 Appearance of the Roller Worm — Swarming of the Archippus Butter- 

 fly — An Anthicid Beetle reported as injurious to Fruit — Injury to 

 Hammer-handles — On Remedies for the "Cigarette Beetle" — Corre- 

 spondence on the Mosquito Remedy — Note on the Drone Fly — Another 

 irregular appearance of the Periodical Cicada — The New York Pear- 

 tree Psylla — A Tropical Cockroach in a New Orleans Greenhouse — 

 Remedies for White Ants in Fruit Trees — A swarm of Spring-tails — 

 Tame Spiders. 



Notes from Correspondence 202 



General Notes 204 



First Larval Stage of the Pea Weevil (illustrated) — Edward Burgess' work 

 in Natural Science— Swarming of the Archippus Butterfly(illustrated) — 

 Unusual abundance of Butterfly LarvsB — Some imported Australian 

 Parasites — A new Parasite of the Red Scale — Parasitism in Bees of the 

 Genus Stelis — The Larva of Harpalus — Dipterous Larvse in the Eyes 

 of a Toad — An Insect Transmitter of Contagion — A Scale- insect on the 

 Karoo Bush — The silk of Spiders— The Mexican Jigger or "Tlalza- 

 huate " — Obituary — Entomological Society of Washington. 



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