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Index. 



201 



Reports on insects of Illinois, cited, 125, 



132. 

 Resistant grains for insect attack, 176. 

 Riley, Prof. C. V., cited, 144, 151, 153, 185. 



honored by French government, loc. 



on blister-beetles, 134. 



on Bryobia mite, 160. 



on Dermestes eating wax, 122. 



on introduction of Icerya parasites, 105 



on raspberry gouty-gall, 124. 

 Road dust for repelling insects, 16G. 

 Robin eats Bibio albipennis, 174. 

 Roestelia aurantiaca on quinces, 181. 

 rosaeeana, Cacoecia, 187. 

 rosK, Tettigonia, 166. 

 Rose-bug destroying peaches, 166. 

 Rose: insects infesting: 



Cacoecia rosaeeana, 187. 



M.ierodactylos subspinosus 175, 



Penthina nimbatana, 139. 



Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 143. 



Tettigonia rosiE, 166. 

 Rose-leaf tyer, 139. 

 ruflcollis, Agrilus, 123-125. 



Buprestis, 123 = Agrilus r. 

 ruflmanus, Bruchus, 128. 

 Rupert, W. P., & Sons, insects from, 187. 

 Rural New Yorker, cited, 170, 



S. 



Saddle-back, the, on corn, 187. 



saltitans, Carpocapsa, 187. 



Saunders' Insects Injurious to Fruits, 



cited, 125. 

 Saunders, W., cited, 132, 133. 

 Saussure, H. de, cited, 110. 

 Say [Dr. Thomas], cited, 109, no. 

 Sayi, Lytta, 136 = S., Pomphopoea. 

 Sayi, Pomphopoea, 136. 

 Scale insects, how to kill, 144. 

 Scale insects in California, 104. 

 Scavenger beetles, 170. 

 Schwartz, Charles, insect from, 188. 

 Sciara, sp., from mushrooms, 188, 

 Science, cited, 183, 185. 

 Scolopendra sp. ? 190. 

 scrophulariiB, Anthrenus, 118, 120, 173, 175. 



188. 

 Seudder [S. H.l, cited, 153. 



on chirp of mole-cricket, 150. 

 scutellaris, Bruchus, 127. 

 Seely, Prof. H. M., insects from, 188. 

 Semiotollus clisiocampre, 186. 

 sericea, Cistela, 130. 

 serrata, Hfematobia, 169. 

 Seventeen-year locust, 153. 

 Sheep warble-fly, ill. 

 Silvanus Surinamensis, 107, 188. 

 Siphonophora avenic, 103, 167, 169, 189. 



granaria, 167. 

 siro, Tyroglyphus, 170. 



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Sitotroga eerealella, 190. 

 Smith, Miss E. A., cited, 147. 

 Smith, Mrs. E. B., insects from, 188, 189. 

 Smut fungus eaten by Phalacrus, 170. 

 Snow, George C, insects from, 188, 189. 

 Soap-suds for insect attack, 144, 148. 

 Soft maple, infested by Chrysobothrls 

 femorata, 155. 



Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 141. 

 Soluble phenyle for insect attack, 169. 

 Somnus, Nisoniades, 180. 

 Spanish fly, 131, 133. 

 speciosus, Glycobius, 169. 

 sphasrocephalus, Triehodectes, 190. 

 Sphenophorus zeaa, 178. 

 SphingidfE. Life duration of, 184. 

 Sphinx quinquemaeulata pupa, 187. 

 Spilosoma Virginica, 169. 

 Spined soldier-bug, 137. 

 Spinning mites, 160. 

 spinosus, Podisus, 137. 

 Spraying for scale insects, 144. 

 spretus, Melanoplus, 152. 

 Spring-tails in a well, 173. 

 Squash-bug, 169. 

 Squash: insects infesting: 



Anasa tristis, 169. 

 Ipsfasciatus, 188. 



Melittia cucurbitre, 176. 

 Squash-vine borer, 176. 

 Stalk-borer, 176, 178. 

 stimulea, Empretia, 187, 

 Stinging powers of Podisus, 140. 

 St. Lawrence Republican cited, 180, 182. 

 Strickland, W. J., insects from, 187. 

 Striped blister-beetle, 132-134, 176. 



features of, 134. 



figure of, 1.32. 



food-plants, 132. 



life-stages, 134. 



parasitic habits, 133. 



range of, 132. 



Riley, Prof., on, 133. 



remedies, 133. 



transformations, 133. 



vesicatory properties, 133. 



voracity, 132. 

 Strawberry: insects infesting: 



Allorhina nitida, 183. 



aphis [Siphonophora fragariffi], 183. 



Colaspis [brunnea], 183. 



Cotalpa lanigera, 183. 



Lachnosterna fusca, 183. 



Otiorhynchus ovatus, 189. 



Paria aterrima, 183, 188. 



Tyloderma fragarise, 183. 

 succinctus, Largus, 183. 

 Sulphur for insect attack, 114. 

 Sumach eaten by Pulvinaria Innumera- 

 bilis, 143. 

 Surinamensis, Silvanus. 107, 188. 



