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In  the  Italian  Dr.  Silvestri  did  not  give  the  popular  names  of 
the  insects  mentioned  in  his  article.  In  order  therefore  to  make 
his  article  perfectly  intelligible  to  all  our  readers  we  publish  be- 
low a table,  alphabetically  arranged,  of  the  scientific  names  and 
terms  in  it,  giving  their  popular  equivalents. 
Ablerus,  a scale  bug  parasite. 
Acaridae,  mites. 
Ageniaspis,  a moth  parasite. 
Agromyza,  a small  fruit  fly. 
Aleyrodes  brassicae , cabbage  white  fly  or  mealy  wing. 
Anagrus,  a leaf  hopper  egg  parasite. 
Anaphes,  a scale  bug  parasite. 
Anastrepha  fratercula,  a fruit  fly. 
Anthonomus  grandis,  the  cotton  boll  weevil. 
Aonidiella  aurantii,  the  orange  red  scale. 
Apanteles  glomeratus,  a cabbage  worm  parasite. 
Aphelinus  mytilaspidis , a scale  bug  parasite. 
Aphis  brassicae , cabbage  aphis. 
Aphis  papaveris,  a plant  louse. 
Apis  lingnstica,  a bee. 
Apis4  mellihca , honey  bee. 
Aporia,  a butterfly. 
Archenomus  bicolor,  a scale  bug  parasite. 
Aspidiotus,  a scale  bug  genus. 
Aspidiotus  hederae,  oleander  scale. 
Aspidiotus  perniciosus,  San  Jose  scale. 
Aspidiotiphagus,  a scale  bug  parasite. 
Asphondylia  lupini,  a gall  fly. 
Blastophaiga  gross  or  um,  fig  insect. 
Blastophagus  piniperda,  a beetle. 
Bombus,  bumble  bee. 
Bombus  hortoruin , bumble  bee. 
Bombus  terrestrius,  bumble  bee. 
Braconid,  an  ichneumon  fly. 
Calosoma  sycophanta,  European  ground  beetle. 
Carabids,  ground  beetles. 
Carabus  aurantus,  red  ground  beetle. 
Carpocapsa,  codling  moth. 
Ccusoecia,  a genus  of  leaf  rolling  moths. 
Cecidomyid,  gall  gnat. 
Ceratitis  capitata,  Mediterranean  fruit  fly. 
Ceroplastes  rubens,  the  red  wax  scale. 
Ceroplastes  rusci,  European  wax  scale. 
Chalcis  obscurata,  a parasite  on  chrysalides  of  moths. 
Chilocorus  bimdnerus,  American  lady  bird. 
Chilocorus  circumdatus,  the  orange  lady  bird. 
Chilocorus  similis,  Asiatic  lady  bird. 
•'Chlaenius  schrankii,  predaceous  beetle. 
