GENERAL INDEX. 



cclxxxi 



Lampronota frigida. 118. 



" imitatrix, 121. 



" interpellata, 118. 



" nigrita, 122. 



" pictiventris. 119. 



" rubricra, 122. 



" scutellaris, 116. 



" tegularis, 116. 



Lampyris noctiluca, 563. [544. 



Larval characters of Blister-beetles. 

 Lead and Zinc deposits in Mo.. 246. 

 Lepidobalanus. 381, 3S8. 

 Lepidosteus ferox, 173. 

 Leptobatus illinoisensis, 14S. 

 Leucania unipuncta, 211. 



" albilinea. 219. 

 Leucobalanus. 3S1, 388. 

 Light in vacuo. 75. 

 Lightning, effects of, 45, 140. 

 Ligurian race, 3. 

 Lignite from Peru, 223. 

 Limenitis disippus, 44. 



" Misippus, 204. 

 Littaea, 296. 



Locusts, ravages in 1S75. 345. 



Locust flights E. of the Mississippi. 



" ravages, 179, 236. [22C. 



" experience in 1877, 267. 



Lunar Tables, result of researches 



in, 509, 524. 

 Lygus robiniae, 59. 



Macrobasis unicolor, 550, 562. 

 cinerea, 551. 

 " debilis. 551. 



Fabricii, 551. 

 " murina, 551. 



Maguey, 294. 



Mastodon angustidens, 192. 

 Megathymus yuccae, 323, 566. 



" " var. Coloraden- 



sis. 56S. 

 " Affinities, 534. 

 " Biological, 325, 344. 

 " Bibliographical, 329. 

 " Descriptive, 331. 

 Enemies, 339. 

 Megetra, 565. 

 Melanobalanus, 381, 388. 

 Meloe, 565. 



History of, 546. 

 " angusticollis, 547, 212. 

 " barbarus, 547. 

 " cicatricosus, 517. 

 " proscarabaeus, 547. 

 Meloidae — Remarkable new genus 



in, 563. 

 Meloini — Table of genera of, 565. 

 Memory — Measurement of strength 

 Menobranchus, SO. [of, 210. 



" lateralis, 115. 



Mcntone cave— Fossil man of, 96. 

 Meteorological Reports, 1861-70, 35. 

 Summer of 1871, 50. 

 Winter of 1871-2, 78. 

 " 1872-3, 103. 

 u " 1873-4, 132. 

 " 1874-5, 17.1. 

 " 1875-6. 203. 

 " spring of 1877, 263. 

 " summer" " 265. 



Notes, 2,4-8, 10, 15. 17. 



22, :',. 34, 46. ',s, 60, 78, 90, 99, 



103. 106-7, 132, ir,;, 164, 166, 



173, U8, 258-9, 263. 267. 



Meteorology of 1875. 196. 



" Mississippi, high water in, 144. 



" " freezing of, at St. 



Louis. 54. 

 " Relative humidity, 1861-70, 35. 

 " Spring, opening bf, 46. 

 " Temperature, at St. Louis, 1861 



-1870. 35. 

 " " of Philadelphia, St. Louis 



and Canon City. 153. 

 " Tornado of March 30. 1871, 79. 

 " Hailstorm ot May 19. 1S73, 107. 

 " Meteor of Jan. 3. 1S77. 258. 

 " •' Dec. 27, 1875, 349. 

 " Missouri Weather Service, 266. 

 Metopius pollinctorius, !tl . 

 Mexican iumping-seed, 190, .'/;. 

 Mezcal, 294. 



Migratory butterflies, 268. 

 Mildew on grape-vines, 215. 

 Mimicry in butterflies, 44. 

 Mineralogy of Cole Co., Mo.. 33. 

 Mississippi River — Delta of, 114. 



" " frozen, 54. 



Missouri— Fossil horse in, 20. 

 Mite parasites of Doryphora, 219. 

 Mites— Description of two new sub- 

 terranean, 215. 

 Mite transformations, 266. 

 Moon's Motions, theory of, 401. 

 " " corrections of present the- 

 ory of. 426. 

 " " objections of present theo- 

 ry of secular accelerations 

 of. 510. 

 " '• table of corrections of. 429. 

 Mound burials, 198. 

 Mounds in Mississippi. 226. 

 '* " Missouri. 86. 

 " relics in, 133. 

 " in Saline Co., Mo., 86. 

 " near Louisiana, Mo., 267. 

 Muscular action, 234. 

 Mygale Hentzii, 269. 

 MyJabris. 55S. 



Myrmecocytus mexicanus. J.09. 

 Myrmica minuta, 102. 



