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INDEX. 



Anthribidae, 140. 

 Anthribus variegatus, 139. 



varius, 53. 

 antiopa, Vanessa, 230, 232. 

 Ant lion, 233. 

 Ants, 36. 



insecticide for, 35. 



eating young cicadas, 177. 

 Anurida maritima, 210. 

 Apanteles congregatus, 229. 



gelechise, 39. 

 Apate bicaudatus, 125. 

 Aphides, 38. 

 Apbididee, 160, 181. 

 Aphis chrysauthemi, 20, 21. 



gran aria, 225. 



on roots of peach trees, 19. 

 Aphritis globosus, 116. 

 apiformis, Microdon, 116. 

 Apple attack, an unrecognized, 23. 

 Apple-leaf liucculatri.v, 224. 

 Apple Maggot, 117-125, 227, 234. 



allied species, 124, 125. 



apple midge has similar habits, 125. 



bibliography, 117-8. 



desiderata in life-history, 124. 



distribution, 121. 



fly described and figured, 119, 120, 



injuries from, 122. 



larva described and figured, 119, 120. 



life-history, 120. 



operations of larva, 118. 



preference for early fruit, 122. 



puparium figured, 120. 



pupation of, 121, 123. 



remedies, 123. 



western extension of the insect, 121, 



winter fruit attacked, 122 

 Apple midge, 125. 



Apple worm, 12, 118, 120, 122, 123, 124. 

 Apple-tree borer, 25, 26,27. 

 Apple-tree case-bearer, 225. 

 Apple-tree tent caterpillar, 83. 

 Apple-twig borer, 125-132. 



associated species, 130. 



beetle described, 126. 



burrows of beetle, 129. 



bibliography, 125. 



figures of, i25. 



grapevine as larval food, 127. 



habits, 125. 



ignorance of early stages, 128. 



injuries from, 131. 



life-history, 127, 130. 



preventive, 131. 



rarity in New York, 128. 



remedies, 131. 



similar habits in another beetle, 131. 



synonymy, 125. 



twig-boring illustrated, 127. 



vegetation attacked, 126. 

 apterus var. of Blissus leucopterus, 155. 

 aquatica, Podura, 210. 

 Aramigus FuUeri (see Fuller's rose-beetle), 



142-144. 

 argillacea, Aletia, 220. 

 Argynnis, sexual features in, 214. 

 armiger, Heliothis, 2, 93. 

 Army-worm in Western New York, 42-44. 

 Ashes and saltpetre for cut-worms, 28. 

 Ashmead [W. H.J, referred to, 203. 



Ashton, T. B., on Podura nivicola. 203 204. 

 asparagi, Crioceris, 135. 

 Asparagus beetle, 135. 

 Aspidiotus nerii, 32. 



pinifoliiB, 180, 184. 

 Aspistes? sp., 115. 

 Atalanta, Pyrameis, 39. 

 atlanis, Caloptenus, 196. 

 atrata, Rhyssa, 227, 230. 

 atratus, Chermes, 185. 

 atricapillus, Parus, 8. 

 Atropos divinatoria, 198-202. 



bibliography, 198. 



bibliography of the Psocidae, 203. 



death-watch, an allied species, 202. 



figures of the insect, 201. 



habits of the Psocidae, 202. 



infests abed-room, 199. 



means for destroying, 199. 



notes of an invasion, 199, 200. 



occurrence in beds, 198. 



source of the insect, 201. 



synonymy, 198. 

 Attagenus megatoma, 46-48, 138, 226. 



pellio, 47, 138. 

 Attraction of newly felled trees for timber 



borers, 55. 

 aurantiaca, Roestelia, 12. 

 aurichalchea, Coptocycla, 223. 

 Austin's Check list of Coleoptera, 142. 

 avenie, Siphonophora, 225. 

 Azotic gas for Angoumois moth, 110. 



B. 



Bacteria in caterpillars, 40. 



Bagging beans for bean-weevil, 49 229. 

 grapes, directions for, 33. 



Bag-worm, 74. 



Baltimore oriole, 82. 



Bands of tin, tar, etc., to prevent insect at- 

 tack, 8, 9, 27. 



Bark-borers, 53-55. 



Barker, Joseph, on the bean-weevil, 49. 



Barker, J. G., on tobacco infusion for plant- 

 lice, 31. 



Barking trees to arrest insect attack, 55. 



Bark-lice, 25, 53, 184, 232. 



Barnard, Dr. W. S., nether-inserter bv, 22, 

 34. 



basilare, Sinoxylon, 127, 130. 



Bassiana, Botrytis, 179. 



Bateman, M. B., on a carbolic wash, 25, 28. 



Bean-weevil, 49, 928. 



Beating insects from olants, 18, 178, 225. 



Bed-bug, 16, 152. 



Beech aphis, 181. 



Beecher, C. E., drawings of chinch-bug 

 wings by, 155. 



Beet-leaf mining Anthomyiidae, 46, 225. 



Benzine for insect attaclcs, 35, 47, 199, 226, 

 232. 



Bessey, Prof. C. E., on the seventeen-year 

 locust, 168. 



Bethune [Rev. C. J. S.], referred to, 89. 102, 

 149. 



Bibio albipennis, 110. 

 hortulanus, 112. 



Bibionidic, features of. 111. 



bicaudatus, Amphicerus, 125-132. 

 Apate, 125. 



