Index. 



221 



Gas Company, its troubles 



with consumers, 121 

 Gooseberries, larger now than 



before, 13 

 Grand-daddy long-legs, not a 



spider, harvest-man, 138 

 Grasshoppers, 212 



H 



Heel-fly, life-history of, 21 



Honey, quantity annually pro- 

 duced, 208 



Howard, U. S. entomologist, 

 his recommendations on 

 moths, 133 



Huber, 172 



Huxley, his estimate of repro- 

 ductive powers of plant-lice, 



79 

 Hymenopters, 154 



I 



Insect nomenclature, 55 



Johnston, Sir Harry. 10 

 Jack a-Nory and brother, a 

 story concerning, 15 



K 



Kissing bug, 100 

 Koenig, 198 



Lace-winged fly, 179 



Laelius, 162 



Lincecum, 174 



Linyphia, 144 



Locusts, harnessed up as team, 



213 

 Locusts, plague of in early 



'7o's, 213 



Locusts as chicken feed, 214 

 Locust, life-history, wasp feeds 



on, 83 



Lomechusa, 180 



Love, both sacred and accurst, 



88 



Lubbock, Sir John, 154-186 

 Lticifuga, Latin name for, no 



M 



Macropetaltchthys sullivanti, 

 closed out by sheriff, 104 



Madagascar, habitat of Thing- 

 umbobbius What'sitsnameii, 

 12 



Man, his influence on appear- 

 ance of nature recent, 12 



Maraldi, 198 



McCook, 143-184 



Malaria among British troops 

 at Hong Kong, 50 



Melampyrum pratense, 176 



Membrane winged, 154 



Membrane-winged insects, 

 sting of, originally oviposi- 

 tor, 156 



Moggridge, his confirmation of 

 Solomon's wisdom, 173 



Mosquitoes, boring apparatus, 



38 



Mosquitoes, distributing agents 

 of malaria and yellow fever, 



4Q 



Mosquitoes, female does the 



biting, 36 

 Mosquitoes in Arctic circle; in 



Yorkshire, 41 



Mosquitoes, life-history of, 42 

 Mosquitoes, male's musical 



sensibilities, 38 



Mosquitoes, not one in a mil- 

 lion samples red blood, 40 

 Moths, Buffalo, not a moth, but 



a beetle, 131 

 Moths, Cecropia, enormous 



appetite of, 129 

 Moths, have no mouths, 123 

 Moths, life-history of, 128 

 Moths, remedies for, 131 

 Moths, Southern clothes- 

 moths, 130 

 Miiller, Pastor, 155 



