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INDEX. 



Insecticides, Apparatus for applying, 100, 101. 

 Application of liquid, 100. 

 Caution in applying, 120. 

 Experiments with, 199. 

 Insect-fauna of the Orange, Summary of, 5. 

 Beneficial insect.s, 6. 

 Distinguishing friends from foes, 7. 

 Injurious insects, C. 

 Innoxious insects, 7. 

 Insects affecting the blossoms, 164. 

 fruit, 165. 



root and crown, 121. 

 trunk and branches, 126. 

 twigs and leaves, 132. 

 feeding upon dead wood and bark, 170. 



decaying fruit, 175. 

 found in dry fruit, 178. 



wounds and foot-rot sores, 175. 

 Predatory, 80. 

 preying upon Aphis, 180. 



Bark-lice, 69. 

 Katydid, Protective resemblance of, 5. 



The Angular-winged, 134. 

 Kermes, 14. 



Kerosene as a remedy for Rust-mite, 118. 

 Scale-insects, 92. 

 White ants, 124. 

 Kerosene emulsion, Best season for applying, 95. 

 Eflfect of, upon the Orange, 94. 

 Formula for improved, 94. 

 Mode of applying, 100, 101. 



preparing, 93. 

 Precautions in the use, 94. 

 Table of experiments with, 

 199. 

 Lace- wings, 7, 69. 



Eggs, 81. 

 Habits, 80. 

 Imago, 80. 

 Larva, 80. 

 Life-history, 80. 

 Pupa, 80. 

 Parasite, 80. 

 Lady-birds, 7. 



preying upon Aphi.s, 180. 



Scale-insects, 69,71. 

 transporting Scale-insects, 43. 

 LaamophloBus, 175. 

 Lagoa opercularis, 140. 

 Cocoon, 140. 

 Larva, 140. 

 Life-history, 141. 

 Moth, 141. 

 Parasites, 141. 

 Lapbygma frugiperda, 150. 

 Chrysalis, 151. 

 Egg, 150. 

 Larva, 151. 

 Moth, 151. 

 Larger Leaf-rolltr, 154, 217. 

 Lathridius, 175. 

 Leaf-eating ant, 132. 

 Leaf- footed bug, 168. 



Attacking the Orange, 169. 

 Characteristics, 168. 

 Eggs, 168. 



Leaf-footed bug. 



H.ibits, 169. 



Normal food-plants, 169. 

 Prevention, 169. 

 Leaf-rollers injurious to the Orange, 151. 

 General characterist ics, 151. 

 Life-history, 151. 

 Lecanina?, a subfamily of Coccidae, 14. 

 Extent of injuries, 61. 

 General characteristics, 48. 

 Life-history, 48. 

 Lecanium hemisphaericum, 55. 

 hesperidnm, 14, 48, 78. 

 oleae, 53, 61. 

 tilias, 218. 

 Lepidoptera injurious to the Orange, 137. 



preying upon Scale-insects, 76. 

 Leptocorisa tipuloides, 78, 191, 215. 

 Leptoglossus phyllopus, 164, 168. 

 Leptomastix dactylopii, 66. 

 Leptostylus biustus, 174. 

 Beetle, 174. 

 Larva, 174. 

 Limacodes scapha, 140, 143. 

 Cocoon, 144. 

 Larva, 143. 

 Lime as a remedy for Rust-mite, 120. 

 Liquid insecticides, 100. 



Fineness and force of spray, 100. 

 Means of applying, lOJ. 

 Proper seasons for applying, 102. 

 Several applications necessary, 101. 

 Locusts injuring the Orange, 135. 

 Long Scale, 14, 42, 75, 77. 



Brood periods, 22. 

 Eggs, 21. 

 Female insect, 20. 

 Geographical distribution, 24. 

 Growth of the Scale, 19. 

 Introduction into Florida, 25, 86. 

 Life-history, 21. 

 Pariisites, 23. 

 Scale of female, 20. 



male, 20. 

 "Winged male, 20. 

 Young larva, 21. 

 Lubber Grasshopper, 135. 



Absence of enemies, 136. 

 Life-history, 13.5. 

 Remedies, 136. 

 "Wandering habits, 135. 

 Lye Solutions, Table of experiments with, 204. 

 Manna produced by a Scale-insect, 13. 

 Mantis Carolina, 189. 



Characteristics, 189. 

 Egg-mass, 190. 

 missouriensis, 190. 

 Characteristics, 190. 

 Egg-mass, 191. 

 Food, 191. 

 Mealy-bug, 2, 4, 14, 79. 



at Orange Lake, Florida, 197. 

 The Common, 63, 86. 

 Destructive, 64. 

 Mealy-bugs Food-plants, 63. 



Genera] cJiaracteristics, 63. 



