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Index. 



Preventive of pickled-fruit fly, 65. 



Psocidie, Go. 



radish-flj', 198. 



red ant, 65. 



root-fly, 194. 



rose-bug, 232. 



seed-corn fly, 201. 



Tinea, 64. 



vagabond Cranibus, 149. 



violet Nephelodes, 110. 



wheat-stem maggot, 227. 



white-marked tussock-moth, 64. 

 Preventives of insect depredations, 63-65, etc. 



alum water, for repelling roaches, 65. 



animal secretions, 75. 



ashes, 177. 



attracting to food-plants of minor value, 

 64. 



borax, for repelling roaches, etc., 65. 



brine, 190. 



camphor, for insect collections, 74. 



camphor, for protecting woolens, 64. 



canker-worm trap, 64. 



carbolic acid, 65. 



cedar shavings, protects woolens, 64. 



chalk, repels red ants, 65. 



coal-tar distillates, 75. 



cotton-batting bands around trees, 64. 



fish manure, 75. 



gas-lime, 177. 



gas-tar paper beneath carpets, 64. 



ground pepper, for woolens, 64. 



high culture, 63, 66. 



hops, spent, for cabbage protection, 65. 



late sowing for certain insects, 63. 



Imen sheets, for woolens, 64. 



manuring, 178. 



mounding around trees, 64. 



naphthaltne cones for cabinets, 65. 



netting, 232. 



oil, 190. 



paper bags, for woolens, 64. 



paper cylinders around cabbage plants, 

 etc., 64. 



pennyroyal, of red ants, 65. 



pig-sty drainage, 75. 



prmters' ink on paper, for carpets, 64. 



plaster, 231. 



powdered charcoal, 177. 



rotation of crops, 63. 



Russia leather scraps, for woolens, 64. 



sassafras bark, to repel red ants, 65. 



selection of seed, 63. 



soft-soap wash for trees, 64. 



soot, of onion-fly, 178. 



spices, for woolens, 64. 



spirits of turpentine for seed protection, 

 65. 



tansy-tea on cucumber vines, 65. 



tarred cloths around trees, 64. 



tar-water, for fruit Jars, 65. 



tobacco dust, 65, 190. 



tobacco water, 190, 198, 309. 



wash for preserving herbaria, 65. 



whale-oil soap for repelling curculio, 

 65. 

 Prickly Leptostylus, 304, 831. 

 Printers' ink on paper, a carpet-bug preven- 

 tive, 64. 

 Prionus imbricornis, 330. 



laticollis, 330. 

 Privy-fly, 168, 171. 

 Proljing burrows for grubs, 58, 



Proceedings Academv of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, cited, 127, 151, 157, 161, 

 253, 330(3). 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



276. 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 163, 166. 

 American Philosophical Society, 87, 212, 



247, 254. 

 Boston Society of Natural History, 169. 

 Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 



309. 

 Entomological Section of Academy of 



Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 247. 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 



16, 81, 87, 116, 161, 176, 236, 328. 

 London Entomological Society, 71. 

 Western N. Y. Horticultural Society, 11, 

 40, 60, 66, 152. 

 Proctotrupes, 308. 

 Proctotrupidffi, 241. 

 Progress in economic entomology, 15. 

 Promethea, Callosamia, 328. 

 moth, 328. 



moths, remarkable attraction of males, 

 70. 

 Propertius, Nisoniades, 334, 335. 

 prostrata, Homalomyia, 171. 

 Protection from insect attack, 66-77. 

 Proteus, Clastoptera, 285. 



Eudamus, 337. 

 proxima, Chlorops, 226. 

 pruinella, Anarsia, 151. 

 pruni-mahaleb. Aphis, 320. 

 prunivora, Grapholitha, 329. 

 prunivorella, Ornix, 330. 

 Psenocerus supernotatus, 321. 

 pseudacaciella, Argyromiges, 309. 

 Pseudaglossa lubricalis, 340. 

 pseudargyria, Leucania, 340. 

 Psila rosse, 46, 49. 

 PsocidiB, 65, 161, 316. 

 Psocus aceris, 316. 



domesticus, 65, 162. 

 from Bucculatrix cocoons, 161. 

 quietus, 161. 

 semistriatus, 161. 

 tritici, 298. 

 venosus, 161, 31 

 Psvche cited, 5, 20, 23, 72, 81, 99, 119, 213, 



332(2), 340, 343. 

 Psyche plumifera, 83. 

 Psylla pyrisuga, 331. 

 Psyllidw, 300. 

 Psylliodes punctulata, 296. 

 Pteromalus? fulvipes, 307. 

 hordei, 307. 



parasites on Oscinis, 225. 

 puparum, 86. 

 sp., 86. 

 tritici, 307. 

 Ptilodontinse, 137. 

 Pulex irritans, 62. 

 Pulicida3, 79. 



pulsatoria, Clothilla, 162, 316. 

 pulsatorius, Atropos, 298. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabiUs, 301, 309, 310. 

 pumilionis, Oscinis, 225. 

 punctata, Coptocycla, 306. 

 Hyphantria, 806. 

 Pelidnota, 307. 

 punctatus, Curculio, 247. 

 Phytonomus, 247-253. 



