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Peach: insects infesting: 



Msevia, exitiosa, 170. 



Anarsia lineatella, 173. 



Chrysobothris femorata, 155. 



Clisiocampa Americana, 165. 



Largus suceinctus, 183. 



Macrodactylus subspinosus, 166. 

 Peach-tree borer, 170. 

 Peach-twig moth, 173. 

 Pea: insects feeding on : 



Bruchus scutellaris, 127, 



Chelymorpha Argus, 188. 

 Pear: insects infesting: 



Cacoecia rosaceana, 187. 



Chrysobothris femorata, 155. 



Neoclytus erythrocephalus, 188. 



Xyleborus pyri, 188. 

 Pear-tree blight not caused by insects, 181. 

 Peck, Prof. C. H., insects from, 187, 188, 189. 

 pellionella. Tinea, 187. 

 penicillatus, Phalaerus, 170. 

 Pennsylvanica. Epicauta, 135, 136, 170. 



Nyctobates, 189. 

 PentatomidsB, 137. 

 Penthina nimbatana, 139. 

 Persicus, Argas, 158. 

 Petronius, Nisoniades, 180. 

 Phalaerus penicillatus, a fungus eater, 170. 



politus on wheat, 170. 

 Philenor, Papilio, 187. 

 Phorodon humuli, 103. 

 Phyllophagus pilisicollis, 176. 

 Phylloptera oblongifolia, 189. 

 Phylloxera depressa, 189. 



habits of, 185. 

 Phytonomus punetatus, 182. 

 piceus, Attagenus, 188. 

 Pickled-fruit fly, 117, 173. 

 Pig-rooting for insect attack, 176, 183. 

 Pink. Epicauta Pennsylvanica feeding on, 



136. 

 pisi, Bruchus, 127. 

 Plant-lice, 118, 171. 

 Plowing for insect attack, 176, 183. 

 Plum: insects infesting: 



Chrysobothris femorata, 155, 



curculio, 104. 



Phorodon humuli, 167, 

 Plusia brassictfi, 184. 



ni, 184. 

 "Plusias at sugar, 178. 

 Plympton, A. L., insects from, 188. 

 Podisus modestus, 189. 



spinosus, 137. 

 PoduridfB in a well, 173. 

 Poisonous Centipede, 175. 

 Polistes fuscatus, 109. 

 politus, Phalaerus, 170. 

 pomifoliella, Bucculatrix, 174. 

 pomonella, Carpocapsa, 154, 181. 

 pomorum, Mytilaspis, 165. 

 Pomphopoea Sayi, 136. 



Pomroy, Norman, insects from, 188. 

 posticata, Mallota, 173. 

 Potato-beetle, 132. 

 Potato-beetle, parasite of, 156. 

 Potato-bug, 137. 

 Potato: insects feeding on: 



Coptocyla clavata, 126, 175. 



Epicauta Pennsylvanica, 135. 



Epicauta vittata, 132, 176. 

 Prairie Farmer cited, 147. 

 pratensis, Bryobia, 158, 180. 



Lygus. 189. 

 Preventives of bean-weevil. 185. 



cow-horn fly, 169. 



Dermestes lardarius, 121. 



Epicauta vittata, 133. 



Hessian-fly, 176. 



hop-aphis, 167. 



maple-tree borer, 169. 



museum pests, 175. 



striped blister-beetle, 132. 



warble-fly, 114. 

 Preventives of insect attack: 



cessation from planting, 185. 



cotton bands, 167, 



driving fi-om food-plants, 132. 



dusting with plaster of paris, 132. 



kerosene, 169. 



late sowing, 176. 



McDougall sheep-dip, 114. 



naphthaline, 169. 



oil of tar, 114. 



resistant varieties, 176. 



road-dust, 166. 



soap and carbolic acid wash, 169. 



soluble phenyle, 169. 



sulphur, 114. 



tallow, 175. 



tansy water, 169. 



tar water, 169. 



whale-oil soap, 114. 

 Prindle, C. N., insect from, 189. 

 Prionidus cristatus, 138-141. 

 Prionotus= Prionidus, 138. 

 Proceedings American Association A. A. 



cited, 183, 185. 

 proliflca, Chloropisca, 118. 

 Propertius, Nisoniades, 180. 

 Proteus, Eudamus, 180. 

 Pruyn, Robert C, mites from, 190. 

 Psoci, as food of mites, 161. 

 Psyche cited, 113. 

 Ptinus brunneus in a herbarium, 188. 



quadrimaculatus infesting hides, 188. 

 Pulex irritans, 173. 

 pulicarius, Lathridius, 183, 184. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 141-147. 



vitis, 146. 

 Punctured clover-leaf weevil, 182, 

 Purchasi, Icerya, 104. 

 Putnam, J. Duncan, on maple scale, 143. 

 Pyralid web-caterpiller, 182. 



