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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CONTENTS OF No. 1. 
Page. 
Special Notes 1 
An Important Predatory Insect (Erastria scitula Rambur) (illustrated).. 6 
Notes on Tasmanian Coccinellid^e E. H. Thompson.. 1 1 
Experiments with the Hop Louse in Oregon and Washington 
Albert Eoebele. . 12 
Report on Outbreaks of the Western Cricket and of certain Locusts 
in Idaho ... Robert Milliken . . 17 
The Present Status of the recent Australian Importations 
D. W. Coquillett and A. Eoebele. . 24 
On the Injurious and other Locusts of New Mexico and Arizona 
C. H. Tyler Townsend.. 29 
Extracts from Correspondence 32 
The Corn-root Plant-louse — Destructive Locusts in Colorado— Locusts in 
Colorado — Another Case— A Peculiar Gadfly — Termites swarming in 
Houses — Carbolic Acid for Rose Chafers — Abundance of Tent Cater- 
pillars — An Alfalfa Worm in Wyoming — Tansy and the Plum Cur- 
culio — A Handsome Blister-beetle — Trapping the 12-spotted Melon- 
beetle — Tasmanian Insects — The Plum Curculio in Door County, 
Wis. — The Juniper Bark-borer in Nebraska — Spider Mimicry — A new 
Scale Insect in Florida — The Stink Bush as an Insecticide — Alleged 
Killing of a Dog by the " Hickory Horned Devil." 
Notes from Correspondents 40 
General Notes * 42 
Parthenogenesis among Spiders — The Blattariae of Australia and Polyne- 
sia—An Injurious Hawaiian Beetle — The Sweet Potato Weevil in 
Jamaica — The "Tom Raffles" Ant of Jamaica — An interesting Observa- 
tion on the Larva of Ephestia Jcuehniella — The Carnation " Twitter" — 
Queer Entomology — A Mealy Bug Enemy to Sugar Cane in the West 
Indies— Another emasculating Bot — The Egyptian Iccrya in India— 
A Strawberry Enemy in Jamaica — Silk-spinning Cave Larvae — Migra- 
tory Locusts in Chile — The Colorado Potato Beetle in Nova Scotia — 
Italian Work on the Coccidae — The Pennsylvania Louse Story abroad — 
The Mosquito in England — British phytophagous Hymenoptera — The 
Bumble Bee in New Zealand — Leeward Islands Coccidae — Active 
Grasshopper Work — The Peach Maggot Fly — Crickets of Indiana — 
Fatal Spider Bites — Popular Names of the Horn Fly — Another " Blood- 
sucking Cone-nose" — Hop Lice in New York State — The Gypsy Moth 
in Cambridge — A Homemade Sprayer — Silk Culture in St. Helena — 
The Horn Fly in Alabama— Damage by Chinch Bugs — Economic 
Importance of Chalcoela aurifera — Leeward Islands Entomology — 
Australian Sugar-cane Insects— The Black Peach Aphis in New 
York — The Purple Scale in California — Insects in the Human Ear — 
A new Paper on Scale Insects— Notes from the Museum of the Institute 
of Jamaica — Note on Ceuthophilus eating Curtains and other Fabrics. 
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