GENERAL INDEX TO PART I. 



Abdomen, definition of term, 17. 

 Agitator Spray Pump, 136. 

 Alcohol, used against insects, 124. 

 American Blight. See Woolly AjMs. 

 Ammonia, used against insects, 124. 

 Antennffi, definition of term, 16. 

 Apate dorsalis, 61. 



Apparatus required for collecting insects, 20. 

 Apple-bark Scale, 77 et seq. 

 Imported from either Europe or America, 



77. 

 Male insect, unknown in New Zealand 

 and Europe, and doubtful in America 

 and Australia, 77. 

 On Eucalyptus, 78. 

 Parasites of, SO. 



Api^lication of kerosene emulsion, resin 

 compound, corrosive sublimate, and 

 starch against, 79. 

 Apple Beetle, 83, 84. 

 Application of London Purple, kerosene 

 emulsion, resin compound, Quibell's 

 disinfectant, and benzole against, 85. 

 Apple-root Borer, 71, 72. 

 Indigenous to Australia, 71. 

 Damage done at Geelong by, 71. 

 Application of carbon bi-sulphate, Qui- 

 bell's tar compound, and corrosive 

 sublimate against, 73. 

 Re-planting of affected trees, 74. 

 Apple-tree Borer Beetle, 61 et seq. 

 Mode of attack by, 62. 

 Application of kerosene emulsion against, 



62. 

 Application of tar, steam, Bordeaux mix- 

 ture, &c., against, 63. 

 Ashes used against insects, 124. 

 Aspidiotus aurantii, experiments (gas treat- 

 ment) cm, 13!). 

 Aspidiotus perniciosus, experiments (gas 

 treatment) on, 139. 



B. 



Bandages around trees for Codlin Moth, 53, 



54. 

 Benzole, 124. 



Apple Beetle, used against, 85, 



Pear Slug, used against, 102. 



Rutherglen Fly Pest, used against, 107. 

 Birds, Insect-destroying, 24 et seq. 



List of, 26. 

 Black Scale killed by treatment of whale- 

 oil soap, 138. 



Killed by high temperature treatment,139. 



Blight-proof Stocks, 35. 



Analysis of, 37. 



List of varieties of, 42. 

 Bordeaux Mixture, Apple-tree Borer Beetle, 

 used against, 63. 



Fungi, used against, 86. 

 Burford's Kerosene Soap, 127. 



0. 



Cacaecia postvittana, 67. 



Cacaecia responsana. See Light-hrown 



Ajjple Moth. 

 Carbolic acid, 124. 



And tar used against Cherry Borer, 115. 

 Carbon bi-sulphide, 124. 



Apple-root Borer, used against, 73. 



Cottony Cushion Scale, successful experi- 

 ments against, 139. 



Disinfectant, as a, 59. 



Pear Slug, used against, 101. 



Price of, 74. 

 Carpocapsa pomonella. See Codlin Moth. 

 Castella (Francois de), spraying machine of, 



134. 

 Castor oil used against insects, 125. 

 Caustic soda, 122. 

 Charnwood Spray, 130. 

 Cherry Borer, 113, 114. 



Known to attack other fruits, 114. 



Application of kerosene emulsion, tar- 

 water, Quibell's mixture, Phenyle, 

 against, 114. 



Application of carbolic acid and tar 

 against, 115. 



Forcing steam into holes, 116. 

 Chinch Bug, 90. 

 Chrysalis. See Pupa. 

 Clack's Insect Soap, 128. 

 Classification of insects, 18. 

 Coal-oil used against Rutherglen Fly Pest, 



109. 

 Coal-tar, 125. 



Cocoon, definition of term, 15. 

 Codlin Moth, 45 ct seq. 



Introduction into Victoria, 45. 



How imported, 45. 



When found in S.A., 4.5. 



Attacks apricots, also, 46. 



Number of broods in a season, 46. 



Three broods a year in California (Cooke), 

 47. 



Two broods in N.S.W. (Oliff), 47. 



Tenacity of life exhibited by, 48. 



Mode of exit from apple by grub, 50. 



Parasites of, 55. 



