CONTENTS. 



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Special Notes 213 



The Orange Aleyrodes (Aleyrodes citri n. sp.) (illustrated) 219 



The Pear-tree Psylla (illustrated) 226 



The Laxgdon non-swarmixg Device (illustrated) Frank Benton.. 230 



Notes on ApuiDiDyE Herheit Osborn and F. J. Sirrine.. 235 



Belvosia— A Study (illustrated) ^S". JF. Willhion, M. D.. 238 



Observations on the Boll Worm in Mississippi S. B. Mullen.. 240 



Notes on Entilia sinuata (illustrated) Mrs. M. E. Rice . . 243 



The Food Plants of some Jamaican Coccid^— II T.D.A. Cockerell . . 245 



Observations on some Hymenopterous Parasites of Coleoptera 



F.H. Chittenden.. 247 



Report on the Australian Insects sent by Albert Koebele to Ell- 

 wood Cooper and B. M. Lelong D. W. Coquillett.. 251 



The Genus Dendrotettix C. V. Eiley . . 254 



Extracts from Correspondence 256 



Color of a Host and its Relation to Parasitism — Fowls and Toads vs. Gar- 

 den Insects — Bisulphide of Carbon against Grain Pests; Addi- 

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

 tropical Honey Bee — A honey-producing Ant — The Jumping Bean 

 again — A Boll Worm Crusher — Wax Moths in a Cupboard — On the 

 Habits of some Blister-beetles — The Sweet-potato Root-weevil — A 

 W^eevil in Mullein Seeds — A new Enemy to Cypress Hedges in Califor- 

 nia — Another vegetarian 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 — Roaches in Brazil — Screw-worms and the man-infesting Bot in 

 Brazil — The Chipping Sparrow andHouse Wren as Insect Destroyers — 



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



Notes from Correspondents 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 common Insects — Kero- 

 sene Emulsion Formulas — Legislation against Spraying — An Exhibi- 

 tion of Spraying Machines — Economic Entomology at the Cape of 

 Good Hope — Parasites of Animals transmissible to Man — Further 

 Illustrations of the Rose Slugs (illustrated)— Cockroach Egg Para- 

 sites — The Hymenoptera of Australia — The Genus Mirax — An Impor- 

 tant Paper on Butterflies — The Tobacco Sphinx in Louisiana — Canker- 

 worms in California — The Mediterranean Flour Moth in California — 

 Tent Caterpillars in Massachusetts — Results of Codling Moth Legisla- 

 tion in Tasmania — A Vine Pest in Australia — The Sugar-cane Pin-borer 

 again — The Mustard Beetle in Engl{(nd — New Species and Genera of 

 Rhynchophora — Westward Spread of the Clover-leaf Weevil — The 

 larval Habits of the Acalyptrate Muscidae — A blood-sucking Chiro- 

 nomid — The Family Apiocerida? — The California Remedy for the San 

 Jos6 Scale — Introduction of the Long Scale into California — Imported 

 Scales in California — The Membracidai 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 Peli- 

 can — The Manna Scale — A curious Seed-pod Deformation — The Zebra 

 Caterpillar on the Pacific Coast — Proceedings of the Entomological So- 

 ciety of Washington— Obituary —Entomological Society of Washington. 



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