Index. 



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punctulata, Psylliodes, 296. 

 Punctured clover-leaf weevil, 247-253. 



an European species, 247. 



cocoon described and figured, 248. 



description and figure, 247. 



distribution in New York, 252. 



egg described, 249. 



first notice in this country, 247, 249. 



formerlv described as P. opimus, 251. 



habits of tlie insect, 249, 251. 



illustration of the species, 250. 



larva described, 249. 



life-history, 250. 



locality same as clover-root borer, 247. 



not injurious to clover in Europe, 248. 



perhaps not lately imported, 251. 



remedies, 258. 



variety P. opimus described, 251. 

 Punctured flea-beetle, 296. 

 Punctures in raspberry canes, 315, 318. 

 Puparium of beet-leaf miners, 204. 



of onion-fly described, 174. 

 Purpuricenus [humeralis], 297. 

 purpuripennis, Gortyna, 115. 

 Putnam, J. Duncan, 309. 

 pygmea, Capnia, 298. 

 Pvlades, Eudamus, 337, 338. 

 Pyralididie, 136, 140, 329. 

 Pyralid web-caterpillar, 329. 

 Pyramidal grape-vine caterpillar, 328. 

 pyramidoides, Amphipyra, 828. 

 Pyrethrum, alcoholic extract of, 38 



application in fumes, 38. 



application in powder, 37. 



carneum, 36. 



cinerariiefolium, 36. 



effects on insects, 39. 



first used for field insects, 25. 



flea-beetle repelled by it, 40. 



flies killed by it, 36. 



grain-weevil killed by it, 40. 

 ' hyuienoptera affected by it, 40. 



increased production or, 843. 



insects destroyable by it, 39. 



lately used for house pests, 36. 



literature of, 40. 



long known, 86. ^ 



mixture improved by standing, 37. 



not dangerous to breathe, 36. 



roseum, 36. 



seed distributed, 37. 



tea or decoction, 38. 



usefulness not fully known, 37. 



water mixture eflicient, 39. 



water solution, 38. 

 Pyrgus cicspitalis, 336. 



centaury, 336. 



ericetorum, 336. 



maculatus, 336. 



Oceanus, 336. * 



Petreius, 336. 



Philetas, 336. 



Ricara, 336. 



scriptura;, 336. 



tessellata, 336. 



Xanthua, 336. 

 pyri. Pemphigus, 331. 



Scolytus, 310. 



Tingis, 311. 



Xyleborus, 310, 331. 

 pyrisuga, Psylla, 331. 



Pyrrhocoris, experiments in smell, with, 

 69. 



47 



Q. 



quadrangularis, Aphrophora, 285. 

 quadrigibbus, Anthonomus, 331. 

 quadrimaculatus, Anopheles, 298. 

 quadrivittatus, Capsus, 271. 

 Quassia infusion, 59. 

 querceti, Euclea, 328. 

 Quicklime for insects, 263. 

 quietus, Psocus, 161. 

 Quince Tingis, 311. 



R. 



Radcliffei, Acronycta, 328. 

 Radish-fly, 194-199. 



a doubtful species, 198. 



bibliography of, 194. 



carbolic acid for, 48, 99. 



description of the insect, 196. 



Fitch cited on, 296, 322. 



larva described, 196. 



literature of, 197. 



most injurious of radish insects, 195. 



natural history of, 197. 



other radish insects, 195. 



remedies and preventives, 198. 



resemblance to the root-fly, 196. 

 Radish-seed weevil, 195. j 



Ragonot, E. L., on Crambidse, 150. 

 rantalis, Eurycreon, 329. 

 rapEe, Pieris, 8, 9, 39, 59, 86, 189, 194, 240, 



267. 

 Raspberry slug, 42. 

 Raspberry-stalk gall-bee, 315. 

 Raspberry -twig girdler, 57. 

 Rathvon, [S. S.], cited, 81, 227, 301. 

 Rat-tail larvae, habits of, 213. 

 Ratzeburg referred to, 20, 259. 

 Reaumur quoted, 14, 69, 213. 

 rectus, Sphenophorus, 254. 

 Red ants, remedy for, 62. 



preventive of, 65. 

 Red cedar shavings to protect woolens, 64. 

 Red-humped apple-tree caterpillar, 328. 



prominent, 57. 

 Red-legged grasshopper, 332. 

 Red-shouldered Sinoxvlon, 330. 

 Red-winged black-bird, food of, 105. 

 Regents of the University of the State of 



New York, 21. 

 Register of Rural Affairs, 64. 

 Remedies for insect depredations, 



alum water, 59. 



ammoniacal liquid, 59. 



attracting to lamps and fires, 58, 148. 



attracting to poisoned sweets, 58. 



baits of potato, etc., for wire-worms, 63. 



barricades against migration, 58. 



beating bushes, 269. 



birds, protection of, 61. 



blue-vitriol water, 59. 



burning garden refuse, 58, 269, 270, 279. 



burning grass, 148. 



burning stubble, 58, 253. 



benzine for carpet-bugs, 59. 



carbolic acid and soap, 59. 



chickens for flea-beetles, 61. 



copperas-water, 59. 



corrosive sublimate for bed-bugs, 62. 



cresylic ointment for screw-worm, 62. 



crushing by hand, 57. 



cutting offinfested twigs, 67. 



