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INDEX. 



pithecium, Phobethrou, 227. 

 Pityophthorus puberulus, 54. 

 Plaut-lice, 184, 186. / 



Plants for decoys, 64. 

 Platygaster larva, 231. 



error, 2. 

 Plowing to destroy insects, 63, 161, 163, 225, 



233. 

 Plum weevil, 11, 13. 

 Plusia brassicse (see Cabbage Plusia), 89-93, 



94. 

 Plusia culta (proposed), 97. 

 Plusia dyaus, 94-97, 228. 



caterpillar described, 94. 



cocoon of, 95. 



doubtfully named, 97. 



food-plants, 94. 



habits of larva, 95. 



in a conservatory, 94. 



pupal period, 96. 



transformations, 95. 

 Plusia moths, beauty of, 96. 



ni, 89, 90, 92, 93. 



ou, 97. 



precationis, 97. 

 podagra, Dimeraspis, 116. 

 rodisus spinosus, 146. 

 Podura aquatica, 210. 



bicolor, 205, 244. 



fimetaria, 208. 



humicola, 205, 244. 



nivalis, 244. 



nivicola, 203, 244. 

 Pollenia rudis, 117. 

 Polycaon confertus, 131. 

 Polygraphus rufipennis, 54. 

 Polyphagous insects, 76. 

 Polyphemus, Telea, 77. 

 pomifoliella, Bucculatrix, 224. 

 pomonella, Carpocapsa, 11, 120, 123, 229. 



Trypeta, 117-125, 227, 234. 

 pomorum, Mytilaspis, 232. 

 Popular Science Monthly, 69. 

 Potato attack from an unknown insect, 148. 

 Potter-wasp cells, 231. 

 Poultry in orchards, 33. 

 Powell, T. J., on the seventeen-year cicada,172 

 Practical Entomologist, references and cita- 

 tions, 30, 52, 111, 113, 125, 133,148,155, 

 168, 180. 

 Prairie Farmer, referred to, 148. 

 pratorum, Achorutes, 206. 

 precationis, Plusia, 97. 

 pretiosa, Trichogramma, 220, 229. 

 Preventive of apple-tree borers, 25, 27. 



apple-twig borer, 131. 



cabbage-worm (P. rapse), 27. 



canker-worm, 8, 9, 27. 



carpet-beetles, 34, 48, 226. 



chinch-bug, 162. 



grape curculio and moth, 33. 



grape-seed midge, 32. 



peach-tree borer, 24. 



rose-bug, 66, 225. 



seventeen-year cicada, 178. 



squash-vine borer, 58. 



white-marked tussock-moth, 83. 

 Preventives of insect attacks : 



bands of tar, tin, etc., 8, 9, 27. 



bisulphide of carbon, 65. 



bottle-trap for garden insects, 33. 



carbolic acid. 25, 26, 65, 66, 232. 



Preventives of insect attacks : 

 carbolic wash, 25, 27. 

 carbolized paper, 232. 

 cayenne pepper, 34. 

 coal-oil refuse, 27. 

 coal tar, 65, 66, 67, 68. 

 counterodorants, 228. 

 destroying the English sparrow, 83. 

 frames with netting-cover, 64. 



fas-lime, 162. 

 erosene and soap emulsion, 67. 



kerosene oil, 65, 66. 



naphthaline, 36, 65, 66. 



netting, 58, 64. 



paper bags for grapes, 32, 33. 



road dust, 27. 



roofing-paper of gas-tar, 25, 48, 226, 232. 



rotation of crops, 63. 



soluble phenyle, 65. 



tansy water, 225. 



tar-water, 65, 66. 



tympans, printers', 226. 

 Prionotus cristatus, 230. 

 Pristophora Jgrossulariae, 5. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence of Philadelphia, 102, 148, 154, 168, 

 179. 



American Philosophical Society, 139, 142. 



Boston Society of Natural History, 39, 

 136, 137, 139, 168, 171, 175, 177. 



Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 

 31, 68, 203, 215. 



Western New York Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 228. 

 Procris Americana, 231. 

 Pronuba yuccasella, 215. 

 propinquus, Stenobothrus, 196. 

 Psocidie, habits of, etc., 198, 199, 201, 202. 

 Psoini, a tribe of the Ptinidse, 132. 

 Psyche, references and citations, 31, 35, 36, 

 42, 164, 203 (2), 213-222, 229 (2), 230. 231 (3). 

 Psylla bnxi, 18. 

 Psyllidie, 18. 

 Pteromahis gelechiae, 110. 



sp. ? 79. 

 Ptinidffi, 125, 132. 

 Ptinus fur, 138. 

 puberulus, Pityophthorus, 54. 

 pulsatoria, Clothilla, 201, 202. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 22. 

 punctatus, Phytonomus, 3, 14. 

 Punctured clover-leaf weevil, 3. 

 Pupa of Bibio albipennis? 115. 



Blissus leucopterus, 153. 



Cosmopepla carnifex, 145. 



Cossus Centerensis, 216, 217. 



Melittia cucurbitte, 60. 



Orgyia leucostigma, 73, 76. 



Plusia dyaus? 91. 



Pronuba yuccasella, 215. 



Psylla buxi, 18. 



Trypeta pomonella, 120. 

 purpurascens, Achorutes, 207. 

 pygmtea, Capnia, 239. 

 Pyrameis Atalanta, 39. 

 Pyrethrum for insect attacks, 26, 35, 93, 201,. 



227. 

 Pyrgita domestica, 80. 

 Pyrgus, sexual feature in, 214. 

 Pyroligneous acid, for root-insects, 35. 

 Pyrrhocoridse, a family of Hemiptera, 164. 

 Pyrrhocoris calmariensis, 165. 



