INDEX. 



469 



Luna-moth, 282. 

 Lycaena, species of, 245. 

 Lycaenidae, 242. 

 Lygaeidse, defined, 158. 

 Lymantriidae defined, 268. 



Machinery, chapter on, 456-459. 



Macrobasis unicolor, 227. 



Macrodactylus subspinosus, 199. 



Malachiidae, 191. 



Mallophagidag, 70. 



Malpighian tubules, 30. 



Mandibles, structure and function, 15. 



Mandibulate mouth, 15. 



Mantidse, described, 83. 



Mantis religiosa, 84. 



Mantispidae, 76. 



Manure, favors insects, 428. 



podurids breed in, 57. 

 Maple-borer, 208. 



clear-wing borer, 262. 



scale, life-history, no. 

 March-flies, 340. 

 Margaronia nitidalis, 311. 

 Mask of dragon-fly larva, 62. 

 •May-beetles, 200. 



-flies, their habits, etc., 59. 

 Maxillae, structure and function, 15. 

 McGowen injector, 458. 

 Meadow-grasshoppers, 96. 

 Meal-worms, 224. 

 Mealy-bugs, described, 106. 



remedies for, 108. 

 Measuring-worms, 307. 

 Mechanical preventives, 430. 

 Mecoptera, 77. 



Mediterranean flour-moth, 315. 

 Megachile species, 412. 

 Megathymus yuccae, 254. 

 Megatoma, 179. 

 Megilla, 174. 

 Melanophila, 185. 

 Melanoplus atlanis, 90. 



femur-rubrum, 90, 



spretus, 90. 

 Melitara dentata, 313. 



prodenialis, 313. 

 Melittia ceto, 259. 

 Meloidae, 225. 



Melon-louse, iife history, 126. 

 Melophagus ovinus, 369. 

 Membracidae, defined, 138. 

 Mesothorax, 23. 

 Mesograpta polita, 350. 

 Metathorax, 23. 

 Metamorphosis, defined, 48. 

 Microcentrum retinervis, 94. 



laurifolium, 94, 95. 

 Microgaster, 383. 

 Micro-lepidoptera, 310. 

 Micropyle, defined, 47. 

 Midaidae, 344. 

 Midges, 334, 336. 

 Migration in plant-lice, 126. 

 Milk-weed butterfly, 242. 

 Mineola indiginella, 313. 



vaccinii, 313. 

 Mole-crickets, 98. 

 Monilicornia, defined, 165. 

 Moniliform antennae, 22. 

 Monomorium pharaonis, 396. 

 Monophadnus rubi, 374. 

 Monostegia rosas, 374. 

 Mormon cricket, habits of, 97. 

 Mosquitoes, 332. 

 Mosquito-hawks, 61. 

 Moths, chapter on, 240. 

 Moulting of insects, 48. 

 Moults, number of, 49. 

 Mourning-cloak butterfly, 244. 

 Mouth of bees and wasps, 19. 



importance of, 14, 16. 



indicates remedies, 16. 



of flies, 18. 



types of, 14. 

 Mud-daubers, 402. 

 Multicellular gall, 378. 

 Murgantia histrionica, 162. 

 Muscidae, 353, 356. 

 Muscles, structure and character, 28 

 Mushroom-gnat, 334. 

 Mutillidae, 400. 

 Mycetophilidae, 334. 

 Myrmecocystus melliger, 396. 

 Myrmeleonidae, described, 75. 

 Myrmicidae, 396. 

 Mytilaspis pomorum, 115. 

 Myzus cerasi, 134. 



