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Index. 



Rose-beetle, 227-232. 



apples eaten by it, 229, 330. 



bibliography, 227. 



characteristics of attack, 231. 



description, 228. 



eaten by poultry, 232. 



food-plants, 229. 



grape-vines protected from, 344. 



hand-picking remedy, 232. 



natural history, 231. 



plaster preventive, 232. 



preference for roses, 229. 



protecting from, by netting, 232. 



ravages in Massachusetts, 230. 



sexual instinct, 231. 



sudden appearance, 231. 



sj'stematic position, 228. 



tansy-water preventive, 232. 



why a serious pest, 228. 

 Rose-bug, 45, 57, 234, 303, 307, 316, 317, 318. 

 Rose-leaf caterpillar, 57. 

 Rose-slug, 42. 

 Rose-twig borer, 57. 

 roseum, Pyrethrum, 36. 

 Rosy Hispa, 331. 



Rotation of crops, benefit of, 63, 190. 

 Rough Osmoderma, 330. 

 Round-headed apple-tree borer, 58, 331. 

 Rove-beetles, 189. 



Royal Agricultural Society of England, ISO. 

 rubellus, Lixus, 260. 

 rubi, Selandria, 42. 

 rubus-caulis, Figites, 815. 

 rufibarbis, Erax, 319. 

 ruficeps, Anthomyia, 171. 

 rugosus, Oxytelus, 189. 

 Rumsey & Co.'s Aquaject, 30. 



Hydronette, 29. 

 Rupertsberger's list of Coleoptera, 248. 

 Rural Nebraska, cited, 12. 

 Rural New Yorker, cited, 158, 221, 257. 

 Russia leather scraps to protect woolens, 64. 

 Rutheford, John, referred to, 129. 

 rutila, Gortyna, 115. 



S. 



Sackeni, Mallota, 211. 

 Sacktrager, 83. 

 Saddle-back caterpillar, 328. 

 Salem Press cited, 300. 

 Salt and lime preventive, 194. 

 Samia Cecropia, 72, 328. 

 santes, Colias, 301. 

 Saperda bivittata, 297, 306. 



calcarata, 297. 



Candida, 58, 64, 331. 



cretata, 331. 



[Oberea] tripunctata, 297. 

 SapromyKa (Chlorops) vulgaris, 225. 

 Saratogensis, Aphrophora, 285. 

 Sargent, H. H., on asparagus beetle, 246. 

 saucia, Agrotis, 8, 328. 



Saunders, [William], cited, 127, 152, 227, 233, 

 277, 279. 



description of Anarsia lineatella larva, 

 153, 155. 



entomological papers of, 19. 



Insects Injurious to Fruits, 269, 271, 281, 

 328. 



on pyrethrum, 25, 37. 

 Saving to New York by the Fitch reports, 

 21. 



Sawdust diluent of Pyrethrum, 37. 



Saw-flies, 33, 42. 



Say, [Thomas], cited. 84, 85, 211, 215, 232, 



255, 256, 271, 279, 281. 

 Say's Heteropterous Hemiptera, 271, 294, 



306. 

 scabra, Osmoderma, 830. 

 scalaris, Homalomyia, 171. 

 Scale-bug of the orange and lemon, 38. 

 Scale-insects, 43, 49, 60, 301, 309, 310. 



Report on (Comstock), 18. 

 scandens, Agrotis, 58, 328. 

 scapha, Limacodes, 328. 

 Scarabseidie, 227, 232, 234. 

 Scarred Melolontha, 330. 

 Scatophaga ceparum, 173. 

 Scelothrix, 336. 



Scent-producing organs in Lepidoptera, 71. 

 Schaupp, F. G., papers on Coleoptera, 22. 

 Schiner cited, 179, 207, 208. 

 Schizoneura lanigera, 43, 47, 331. 

 Schoenherr, 305. 



Schonherri, Pachyrhynchus, 300. 

 Schonherr's Weevil, 300. 

 Schwarz, [E. A.], on clover-leaf weevil, 252. 

 Sciari mali, 219, 330. 

 Science Gossip, cited, 211. 

 Science, [N. Y. city], cited, 127, 149. 

 Scientific American, cited, 44. 

 Scoliopteryx libatrix, 340. 

 Scolytus pyri, 310. 

 Screw-worm, 62, 343. 

 scripta, Habrosyne, 340. 

 scriptural, Pyrgus, 336. 

 scrophulariie, Anthrenus, 9. 



Clonus, 248. 

 Scudder and Burgess, 334. 

 Scudder, [S. H.], 327(2), 335, 337. 

 sculptilis, Sphenophorus, 253-263. 

 sculpturatus, Oxytelus, 189. 

 Sculptured corn-curculio, 253-263. 



beetle killed by kerosene, 263. 



bibliography, 253. 



curculio larva3 living in corn, 260. * 



description and figure, 255. 



early notices of injuries, 255. 



first described by Uhler, 254. , 



food-plants of allied species, 260. i 



geographical distribution, 258. 



habits of an allied species, 260. 



identified as S. venata, 254. 



injuries in New York, 256. 



injuries underestimated, 262. 



larva probably breeds in corn, 262. 



later depredations, 257. 



life-history unknown, 255. 



meaning of generic name, 256. 



means of destroying the eggs, 263. 



method of injury, 256, 257. 



named S. zeae by Walsh, 254. 



probably lived in wild grasses, 259. 



pupfe, how to destroy, 263. 



received from New Jersey, 254. 



synonvmy, 253. 



thought to live in decaying wood, 258. 



wild grasses as its food-plants, 259. 

 Scurfy bark-louse, 331. 

 scutellaris, Anoplites, 309, 320. 



Odontota, 320. 

 Secondary parasitism, 146, 161. 

 Seed-corn fly, 199-201. 



bibliography of, 199. 



com as eaten by, 200. 



