INDEX. 



257 



Q. 



quadrimaculatus, Anophales, 241. 

 Quince curculio, 11. 

 quercicola, WoUastonia, 53. 

 querciperda, Cossus, 216. 

 querci, Schizoneura, 181. 



R. 



radiata, Locusta (Tragocephala), 188. 



radiatus, Gomphocerus, 188. 



Radish maggot, 28. 



Rains injurious to insect larva3, 82, Hi. 



rapffi, Pieris, 26, 40, 90, 92, 93. 



raphani, Anthorajia, 28. 



Ratlibone, L. & A. B., on canker-worms, 44 



Rath von, S. S., on a squirrel bot-fly, 46. 



Rats, uapthaline for repelling. 36. 



Reaumur on the Angoumois moth, 104, 107. 



Red-bug, 166. 



Red-legged grasshopper, 189. 



Red-pepper for bed-bugs, 17. 



Red spider, 31. 



Reduviina, 230. 



Red-winged black-bird, 189. 



Reed [E. B.], referred to, 57, 132. 



Regents of the University of the State of 



New York, 163. 

 Remedies for insect depredations: 



ashes and saltpetre, 28. 



azotic gas, 110. 



bagging beans for bean-weevil, 49, 229. 



barium, sulpho-carbouate of, 22. 



barking trees, 55. 



beating from plants, 18, 178, 225. 



benzine, 35, 47, 199, 226, 232. 



birds. 7, 8, 82, 189, 224. 



bisulphide of carbon, 21, 22, 34, 35, 64. 



boxing tree-base for collecting pupge, 

 228. 



bran and arsenic mash, 197. 



brine, 200. 



brushing bark with a stiff brush, 187, 

 230, 232. 



burning, 9, 21, 55, 131, 161, 163, 167, 225, 

 226, 230, 233. 



camphor, 35. 



capture in insect nets, 93. 



carbonic acid gas, 110. 



copperas-water, 67. 



corrosive-sublimate, 17. 



cotton bands on tree-trunks, 86. 



creosote, 35. 



cresylic acid, 35. 



crushing larvje, 231. 



cutting out larvae, 5, 58, 62, 64. 



cyanide of potassium, 34. 



destroying eggs, 85. 



destroying infested fruit, 12. 



ducks, 34. 



fumigation with charcoal gas, 109. 



fumigation with sulphur, 18, 227. 



gas-lime, 21, 63, 162, 163, 229, 233. 



gasoline, 35, 200. 



gas-water, 35. 



gypsum and kerosene, 29. 



hand-picking, 16, 93, 101, 135, 144, 147, 

 178. 



heat, 109, 137, 144. 



hellebore, 5. 



hot-water, 6, 21, 93, 199, 233. 



jarring trees, 12, 85, 101, 228. 



33 



Remedies for insect depredations: 



kerosene emulsions, 21, 22, 86, 37, 88, 



101, 147, 187, 230, 232, 233. 

 kerosene oil, 6, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 47, 63, 



133, 147, 226, 227. 

 kerosene oil and sand, 16, 232. 

 lime, 10. 

 London purple, 44, 65, 86, 123, 136, 223, 



225, 227. 

 lye solutions, 35. 

 mounding peach-trees, 6. 

 naphthaline, 35 

 naphtha, 35. 

 oil-of-tar, 35. 

 paper bands, 229. 

 Paris green, 3, 9, 15, 67, 85, 123, 131, 136, 



146, 223, 225, 227, 228, 229. 

 perchloride of mercury, 187. 

 petroleum, 35. 

 plants for decoys, 64. 

 plowing, 63, 161, 163, 225, 233. 

 potassium, sulpho-carbonato of, 22. 

 poultry in orchards, 33. 

 pyrethrum, 26, 35, 93, 201, 227. 

 pyroligneous acid, 35. 

 red-pepper, 17. 

 rhigolene, 35. 

 rolling, 161, 233. 

 salt, 224. 

 saltpetre, 28, 65. 



scraping bark for scale insects, 230. 

 sheep in orchards, 123. 

 snuff-water, 35. 

 soap-suds, 63, 199. 

 soluble phenyle, 21. 

 soot, 35. 



sulpho-carbonates of potassium, 22. 

 sulpho-cyanide of potassium, 35. 

 sulphur, 18, 32, 227. 

 sulphuric acid, 35. 

 swine for rooting out, 224, 225. 

 tarred bands, 224. 

 tar-water, 35. 

 tobacco juice, 29, 31, 35. 

 trapping for eggs, 144. 

 trees felled for decoy, 55. 

 vinegar and molasses trap, 33. 

 whafe-oil soap, 32, 37, 187, 230. 

 Remedy for the Angoumois moth, 109. 

 aphids on house-plants, 31. 

 apple-maggot, 123. 

 apple-twig borer, 131. 

 bark-boring beetles, 55. 

 bean-weevil, 49, 229. 

 bed-bug, 18. 

 blight aphid, 35. 

 cabbage Plusia, 93. 

 cabbage-worm (Pieris), 26, 27. 

 canker-worm, 8, 9, 44. 

 carpet beetles, 47. 

 chinch-bug, 161-2, 233. 

 Cosmopepla carnifex, 147. 

 cotton-worms, 37. 

 cucumber beetle, 28. 

 currant Amphidasys, 101. 

 currant worm, 24. 

 cut-worms, 28, 35. 

 Fuller's rose beetle, 144. 

 gooseberry worm, 10. 

 grape Phylloxera, 21, 22, 36. 

 grasshoppers, 34, 197. 

 hop-root Gortyna, 35. 



