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INDEX 



A. 



Aoherontia atropos, 82-84 



" Anti-pest," a useful insecticide, 02 



Antithesia variegana = cynosbatella ; 

 pruniana (see Penthina), 73-78 



Apple, 1-8 



Apple-suckers, soft-soajj wash applie<l 

 by powerful spraying apparatus, good 

 remedy for, 99 ; description and 

 haliits of, 100 



Ash, 9-21 



Ash-bark Beetle, Common, 9-16; me- 

 thod of tunnelling of, 9 ; description 

 of beetle, 10 ; date of appearance of, 

 details of method of working of 

 beetles and larvae, and duration of 

 from appearance, 10-18 ; place of 

 change to chrysalis state, 12 ; num- 

 ber of broods, 13 ; infestation present 

 throughout the year, 14, 15 ; preven- 

 tive measures, 15, 16 



Ash-bark Beetle, Greater, 16-21 ; de- 

 scription of beetles, 17 ; of tunnel- 

 ling and tunnels, 17, 18 ; of larva; 

 and pupte, 17, 18 ; exceptional form 

 of workings, 19, 20 ; preventive mea- 

 sures, not always similar to those for 

 Common Ash-bark Beetle, 20 



B. 



Beans, 21-37 



Bean- and Pea-seed Beetles, 21-81 ; 

 species not recorded here imported 

 from Smyrna, 22 ; descriptions of 

 these and the two commonly known 

 species, 23-26 ; method of attack of 

 Bean-seed Beetle, 27 ; some pecu- 

 liarity in structure of Pea-seed Weevil, 

 27 ; Broad Bean-seed Beetle of U.S.A. 

 and South Africa not as yet reported 

 here, 28,— description and habits of, 

 29, 30 ; estimate of loss from presence 

 of Common Bean-seed Beetle, and 

 preventive measures, 30, 31 



Bean, Stem Eelworm in, 32-37; mea- 

 surements and descriptions of infested 

 plants and of Stem Eelworms, 33-35 ; 

 treatment of infested ground and 

 stubble, and applications found use- 



ful in getting rid of Eelworm ; gas- 

 lime not a cure for Eelworm, 37 



Bipalium kewense, 95-98 



Bruchus brachialis, 25 ; rufimanus, 23 ; 

 rufipes, 26; pisorum = pisi, 24; tris- 

 tis, 25 



C. 



Corn, 38-48 



Currant, 48-52 



Currant Gall Mite, 48-52 ; experiments 

 as to removal to uninfested ground 

 of plants which had been cut down, 

 not successful, details given, 44-47 ; 

 insecticides which have been recom- 

 mended but proved useless, 47 ; hydro- 

 cyanic acid, fumigation with, remarks 

 on, 47, 48 



Currant Scale, White Woolly, 48-52; 

 date of first scientific record of, in 

 this country, 48 ; localities where 

 observed, 49 ; description of Scale 

 and woolly exudation, also of active 

 larvffi, also of egg-bag, 19-51 ; reme- 

 dial measures, 52 



D. 



Death's-head Moth, 82-84; unusually 

 present in 1900; why called " death's- 

 head," 82 ; description of caterpillar, 

 83 ; reasons for infestation being 

 rarely seriously injurious, 84 ; refer- 

 ence to attack of, to Potato leafage, 84 



Diplosis pyrivora ( = Cecidorayia nigra? 

 = C.pyricola?), 63-69 



E. 



Eccoptogaster ( = Scolytus) pruni, 71 

 Exoascus pruni (fungoid attack to Plum 

 fruit), 78-81 



F. 



Flatworm," Land Planarian, 95-98; 

 nature of, 95 ; power of altering form 

 of head, 96 ; observation of, 96 ; feed- 

 ing on Earthworms, 97 



