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against pests of, in I^.S.A., 14, 

 463, 481. 

 Lead, list of insect.'? damaging, 81 ; 

 Bostrychiis cvlinrfricits boring in, in 

 Australia, 374 ; insects boring in, 

 in U.S.A., 96 ; contact with, 

 favouring decomposition in liquid 

 hydrocyanic-acid, 91. 

 Lead, White, against borers in 



fruit trees, 506. 

 Lead Arsenate, 444 ; as a powder, 

 2, 22, 92, 130, 137, 207, 219, 231, 

 233, 235, 238, 277, 280, 286. 310, 

 313, 340, 363, 384, 390, 403, 437, 

 460, 504 ; formulae for, in spravs, 

 113, 148, 292, 383, 403, 477; 

 against cotton pests, 22, 96, 148, 

 245, 280 ; against pests of forest 

 trees, 154, 220, 278, 529 ; 

 against maize pests, 340 ; 

 against orchard pests, 2, 7, 95, 

 129, 130, 164, 207, 217, 218, 219, 

 233, 238, 277, 310, 312, 313, 317, 

 322, 333, 334, 336, 340, 341, 344, 

 345, 363, 370, 372, 383, 386, 410, 

 413, 437, 477, 490, 530; against 

 tobacco pests, 134, 231, 527, 

 538 ; against vegetable pests. 12, 

 52, 61. 73. 92, 95, 137, 214, 235, 

 339, 384, 390, 403, 404, 406, 412, 

 460, 532 ; against vine pests, 38, 

 94, 113, 403; and ashes, 231; 

 and Bordeaux mixture, 38, 95, 

 233, 312, 317, 403, 404, 413. 460 ; 

 and lime, 92, 235, 403, 460 ; 

 and lime-sulphur, 76, 219, 317 ; 

 and nicotine, 7, 128 ; and Paris 

 green, 313 ; and saponin, 61 ; 

 and soap, 313, 538 ; and sulphur, 

 2, 233, 280, 363 ; spraying with, 

 against cacao thrips, 440 ; ex- 

 periments with, against Diar- 

 thronomyia hypogaca, 342 ; spray- 

 ing with, against Stephanoderes 

 hampei, 449 ; ineffective against 

 Scapteriscus vicinns, 248 ; in- 

 effective against Typophorus 

 canelliis, 313 ; lime-sulphur 

 followed by, more efficacious tlian 

 when used in reversed order, 63 ; 

 experiments with substitutes 

 for, 155 ; precautions against 

 adulteration and misbranding of, 

 186 ; supposed poisoning of horses 

 by, in U.S.A., 250. 

 Lead Chromate, spraying with, 

 against Crocidoloiiiia binotalis, 

 445. 

 Lead Sulphide, 77. 

 Lead Tliiosulphate, 77. 

 Leaf-hoppers, introduction of pre- 

 daceous enemies of, into Hawaii, 



72 ; in U.S.A., 14, 209, 371, 414 ; 

 relation of, to mosaic disease of 

 sugar-cane, 371, 414; (see 

 Entettix, Perkinsiella, Toinaspis, 

 etc.). 

 Leather, attacked by Lasioderma 

 scrricorne in British Guiana, 55. 

 Leather-jackets, measures against, 

 in Britain, 348, 351 ; (see Tipida). 

 leayana, Calopepla. 

 Lebia grandis, predaceous on cut- 

 worms in U.S.A., 529. 

 Lecaniodiaspis, notice of key to 

 South African species of, 117, 

 118. 

 Lecaniodiaspis hrabei, sp. n., on 

 Brabcium stellatifolium in South 

 Africa, 117. 

 Lecaniodiaspis magna, sp. n.. in 



South Africa, 117. 

 Lecaniodiaspis natalensis, sp. n., on 



Hibiscus in Soutli Africa, 117. 

 Lecaniitm, in South Africa, 447 ; 

 food-plants of, in Cuba, 229 ; 

 parasitised by Aphycus philippiae 

 in Italy, 126 ; intercepted on elm 

 in California, 479. 

 Lecanium adersi, on mango in India, 



101. 

 Lecanium aequale, on orchid in 

 Britain, 343 ; in British Guiana, 

 343. 

 Lecanium bitubercidatum (see 



Eulecanium) . 

 Lecanium caprcae (see Eulecanium). 

 Lecanium cerasoyum (see Euleca- 

 nium). 

 Lecanium corni (see Eulecanium). 

 Lecanium cymbifovme (see Eideca- 



nium persicae). 

 Lecanium decemplex (see Eucalvm- 



natus). 

 Lecanium durbanense, sp. n., in 



South Africa, 447. 

 Lecanium ehretiae, sp. n., on 

 Ehretia hottentcttica in South 

 Africa, 447. 

 Lecanium elongatum (see Coccus). 

 Lecanium excrescens, sp. n., food- 

 plants of, in Santa Cruz Peninsula, 

 416. 

 Lecanium glandi, legislation against 

 introduction of, into U.S.A., 512. 

 Lecanium hesperidum (see Coccus). 

 Lecanium inquilinum, sp. n., ants 

 associated with, in Britisli Guiana, 

 119. 

 Lecanium kunoensis, intercepted in 

 plums in U.S.A., 307 ; legislation 

 against introduction of, into 

 U.S.A., 512. 



