Index. 



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Seed-corn fly, description of it, 200. 



doubtful generic reference, 200. 



larva described and iigured, 200. 

 '^ observed in New Jersey, 199. 



operations of, 200. 



preventives of, 201. 



puparium of, 200. 



transformations of, 200. 

 Selandria cerasi, 42, 60. 



rosie, 42. 



rubi, 42. 

 Selection in seed may prevent insect attack, 



68. 

 Selection of food-plants for oviposition, 67. 

 Sembling, 340. 

 Semiotellus destructor, 321. 

 semistriatus, Psocus, 161. 

 septendecim. Cicada, 331. 

 sera, Gortyna, 115, 340. 

 Serica iricolor, 330. 

 sessilis, Hemiteles, 86. 

 Seventeen-year Cicada, 79, 309, 331. 

 Sexual attraction, in Heliconia Charitonia,70. 



in Polyphylla variolosa, 71. 



in Samia Cecropia, 70. 

 Sexual difference of molts in Callosamia 

 Promethea, 98. 



in Orgyia autiqua, 98. 



in Orgyia leucostigma, 98. 



in Tolype laricis, 98. 

 Sexual union through the sense of smell, 70. 

 Shade-trees defoliated by Orgyia, 33. 

 Shad-fly, 298. 



Shaw, F. Gr., bag-worms received from, 85. 

 Sheep-dip, Buchan & Co.'s, 62. 



Little's, 49. 

 Sheep gad-fly, 299. 



maggots, 299. 



pasturing, for apple-worms, 60. 



ticks, 49, 62, 79, 299. 



wash, for ticks, 62. 

 Sheldon, Prof. 1). S., army-worm from, 313. 

 Shelters for capturing nocturnal feeders 63. 

 Shoulder-striped Tortrix, 328. 

 Sialia sialis, insects eaten by, 104, 234. 

 Sigalphus curculionis, 308. 

 Signoret, Dr., 324. 

 Silphides, smelling-organs of, 69. 

 Silvanus Surinamensis, 330. 

 silvellus, Crambus, 150. 

 Similar wheat-fly, 202. 



compared with the deceptive wheat-fly, 

 202. 



description of it, 202. 



generic reference doubtful, 202. 



limited knowledge of it, 202. 



resembles the deceptive wheat-fly, 202. 

 similis, Anthomyia, 202. 



Hylemyia, 202, 226. 

 Sinea diadema, 331. 

 Sinoxylon basilare, 330. 

 Siphonclla obesa, 225. 

 Siphonopliora aveme, 8. 

 Sitones lineatus, 49. 

 Sitophilus, 305. 

 Skeleton-bug, 111. 

 SkiflE Limacodes, 328. 

 Skunk, as named by Charlevoix, 75. 



protection of, for hop-grub, 61. 

 Slade, [E.], on onion-fly, 172. 

 Slender locust-leaf miner, 309. 

 Slugs (saw-flies), 42. 

 Small snow-fly, 298. 



Smell, sense of, acuteness in dogs, 68. 



acutoness in man, 68. 



antennal bristles as organs of, 69. 

 ^ attracting males to hidden females, 70. 



butterflies drawn to chrysalides by, 70. 



capability of cultivation, 68. 



controls oviposition in some insects, 67. 



evidences of location in antennaa, 69. 



importance to nocturnal insects, 72. 



in Carabus and Pyrrhocoris, 69. 



location of, in doubt, 69. 



necessary to the bag-worm moth, 73. 



not important to some insects, 74. 



organs of, in Cicada, 69. 

 in Coleoptera, 69. 

 in Diptera, 69. 

 in Lepidoptera, 69. 

 in Orthoptera, 69. 

 in Pemphigus, 69. 



Promethea moth, showing acuteness of, 70 



sexual union resulting from, 70. 



united, perhaps, with taste, 69. 



wingless moths fertilized through, 72. 

 Smerinthus exc;ecatus, 327. 

 Smicra gigantea, 86. 

 Smilia inornata, 284. 

 Smith, Emma A., investigations of, 17. 



on the stalk-borer, 110, 112. 

 Smithii, Hemiteles, 86. 

 Smithsonian Institution, 15, 24. 

 Smoke, preventive of midge attack, 74. 

 Smynthurus hortensis, 322. 

 Snapping-beetles, 63, 314. 

 Snow-born Boreus, 298. 



midge, 298. 

 Snow-flea, 298. 

 Snow, G. C, referred to. 111. 

 Snow, Prof. F. H., on localities of moths, 

 98, 99, 254, 258. 



on sexual attraction of Phyllophaga, 71. 



on the screw-worm, 343. 

 Snow-white linden moth, in Brooklyn, 329. 

 Snowy cricket, 315. 

 Soap and carbolic acid mixture, 59. 

 Soap-boilers' waste preventive, 194. 

 Soap on apple-trees, 64, 306. 

 Soap remedy, 304, 319. 



Soap-suds, 194, 301, 302. ^ 



Societe Imperiale et Centrale d' Agriculture, 



324. 

 Solani, Dorthesia, 286. 

 Soluble Phenyle, as an insecticide, 48-50. 



agency for, in the United States, 49. 



analysis of, 49. 



ants destroyed by it, 50. 



arrests attack of celery-fly, 49. 



destroys aphis, 49. 



directions for use, 49. 



experiments of Miss Ormerod, 48. 



insect attacks checked by it, 49, 221. 



manufactured in England, 48. 



poultry vermin killed by it, 49. 



prevents attack of pea-weevil, 49. 



prices at which sold, 50. 



properties of, 49. 



scale-insects killed by it, 49. 



used as a sheep-dip, 49. 



vermin of animals killed by it, 49. 

 Solution of pyrethrum in water, 38. 

 Somnus, Nisoniades, 336. 

 Soot, 60, 310, 321. 

 sororia, Lachnosterna, 330. 

 Sorsby, Col., ou baiting the corn-worm, 125. 



