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Index. 



Paraffine oil, larches saved by its use, 46. 



method of use, 271, 343. 



mixed with absorbents, 46. 



mixture made with a syringe, 46. 



produced from cannel coal, 46. 



uses to which applied, 46. 

 parallela, Aphrophora, 285. 



Parorgyia, 328. 

 Parallel Elaphidion, 330. 

 paralleliun, Elaphidion, 330. 

 Parapetticoat, 302. 

 paraplecticus, Lixus, 260. 

 Parasa chloris, 328. 

 Parasite of asparagus beetle, 241. 



Cynthia cardui, 320. 



Desmia maculalis, 86. 



onion-fly, 176. 



peach-twig borer, 156. 



Rocky Mountain locust eggs, 182. 

 Parasites, colonization of, 61. 



from a single pupa, 156. 



of apple-leaf Bucculatrix, 159. 



of apple-tree case-bearer, 166. 



of bees, 79. 



of Coccidaj, 18, 160. 



of Hessian-fly, 321. 



of horses and hogs, 45. 



of Oscinis granarius, 225. 



of Thy ridopteryx ephemersef ormis, 84-87. 



of violet Nephelodes, 103, 110. 



of wheat-midge, 306. 



transportation of, 18. 

 Parasitic destroyer of the Curculio, 308. 

 Parasitism of the Staphylinidae, 189. 

 Parasitized insects, distribution of, 61. 

 Paris green, adulterations of, 26. 



appliances for use, 28. 



application of drj' powder, 27. 



aquaject for applying, 30. 



contrivance for mixing. 26. 



cost of dry application, 28. 



diluents for, 26. 



dry application of, 26. 



dusting box for, 27. 



dusting machines for, 28. 



first use as an insecticide, 25. 



flour the best diluent of, 26. 



forms in which used, 26. 



hydronette for applying, 29. 



improved hydronette nozzle for, 31. 



insects killed by, 82, 166. 



McMurtrie's experiments with, 32. 



methods of application, 27. 



nature and composition of, 26. 



necessity for its use, 26. 



not dangerous properly used, 31. 



not poisonous to potatoes, 32. 



plaster of Paris for diluting, 27. 



proportion of diluents, 26, 27. 



quantity used, 26, 32. 



sprinklers for, 28. 



superiority of liquid use of, 27. 



wet mixtures, 27. 



Whitman's Fountain pump for, 30. 



why a favorite insecticide, 26. 

 Parker, Prof. H. W., on Heliothis armiger, 



119. 

 Parorgj^ia parallela, 328. 

 Partridge, L. D., referred to, 132. 

 parvulus, Sphenophorus, 261. 

 pascuellus, Crambus, 150. 

 Passer domesticus, 61. 

 Passion-vine protected by pyrethrum, 40. 



Patent Office Report (Agriculture), 125, 310. 

 Payn & Son, B., sales of tobacco-dust, 65. 

 Peach orchard, largest in the world, 11. 

 Peach-tree borer, 47, 64, 259, 308, 316. 

 Peach-twig borer, 151-156. 



bibliography, 151. 



injurious to strawberries, 155. 



larva described, 153. 



larval operations of, 153. 



moth described and figured, 152. 



New York localities of, 155. 



operations in peach-twigs^ 152. 



parasitic attack, 156. 



peaches eaten by, 154. 



remedies, 156. 



strawberry-crown borer, 155. 



two broods of the insect, 154. 

 Pear-blight beetle, 310, 331. 

 Pear-tree blister beetle, 331. 



Psylla, 331. 

 Pea-weevil, 49. 



Pediculidse of domestic animals, 48. 

 Pegomyia, features of, 181. 



genus, 211. 



vicina, 209-211. 

 Pela, 284. 



Pelidnota punctata, 307. 

 pellionella. Tinea, 64. 

 pellucida, Camnula, 332. 

 Pempelia Hammondi, 329. 

 Pemphigus pyri, 47, 331. 



sensorial organs of, 69. 



vitifoli», 4, 322. 

 Pennsylvania Farm Journal, 301. 

 Fennsylvanica, Formica, 62. 

 Pennyroyal, a preventive of insect attack, 74. 

 Pentatomoidse, 268-9. 

 Penthina nimbatana, 57. 

 Pergande, [T.], cited, 332. 

 Perilampus violaceous, 146. 

 Perkins, G. U., cited, 329. 

 Perla nivicola, 298. 

 perlellus, Crambus, 150. 

 perniciosus, Aspidiotus, 332. 

 Pernicious scale, 332. 

 Persian insect powder, 25, 86. 

 Persius, Nisoniades, 334, 335, 336. 

 pertinax, Sphenophorus, 261. 

 petreius, Pyrgus, 336. 

 petulca, Xvlina, 341. 

 Phahenidic, 340. 

 Phallus impudicus, 69. 

 Pliaraonis, Monomorium, 62. 

 PliigaliaV cinctaria, 329. 

 Phihenns spumaria, 285. 

 Philetas, Pyrgus, 336. 

 PhlKothrips mali, 832. 



Phlogophora, scent-producing organs in, 71. 

 Phobetron pithecium, 328. 

 Phorbia ceparum, 169, 171, 172-181, 204, 



cepetorum, 173, 180. 



cilicrura, 180, 181-184. 



features of, 181. 



floccosa, 207, 208. 



genus, 202. 

 Phoxopteris nubeculana, 829. 

 phragmitidicola, Leucania, 340. 

 Phryganidffi, 79. 

 Phycfdse, 140. 

 Phycis indigenella, 329. 

 Ph'ycita nebulo, 829. 

 I Phyllophaga, 305. 

 j phyllopus, Leptoglossus, 268. 



