INDEX. 
Lye, various applications of, for destroying scale- 
insects, 5 
Lytta, a species of, injuring the potato, 37. 
on beans, 36 
M. 
Macrosila cingulata vs. sweet potato, 37 
quinquemaculata vs. tomato, 37 
Mamestra picta injuring cabbage, 37 
Maranta arundinacea, 31 
Metapodius femoratus, 36 
7 on artichoke, 36 
Milk and soaps in emulsions, 33 
condensed in emulsions, 32, 33 
used with kerosene in making emulsions, 
6, 13, 32, 42 
Misumena vatia on cotton, 40 
Mite, larve of Aletia infested with, 45 
Mock-orange, decoction of, 51 
Mulberry, insects injuring, 36 
leaf-mining larva on, 36 
leaf-rolling larva on, 36 
Muryite, conditions necessary for its greatest efli- 
cacy, 22 
cost of, at Gainesville, 38 
experiments with solutions of, 19, 35 
modes of applying, 19, 20, 21 
solution, effect of upon the Rust-mite, 25 
experiments with, notes on, 
25, 33 
not injurious to parasites, 23 
results obtained by the use of, 
25, 26 
Myrmica molesta and cotton aphis, 47, 48 
Mytilaspis citricola, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 31 
gloverii, 10, 11, 12, 19, 26, 27, 29, 30 
how removed, 22 
smut on, 25 
aN. 
Native plants experimented with for Cotton-Worm 
remedy, 31 
Neal, Dr. J. C., experiments on insects affecting 
the orange, 35 
general observations on destruct- 
ive insects, 35 
Neal’s mixture, results of experiments with, 10 
Nezara, destroyed by Diogmites, 40 
Nitidulid beetle, attacking injured oranges, 12, 
Notolomus basalis, eating orange-leaves, 13 
O. 
Oak, geometer larve on, 36 
Oiketicus, girdling orange-twigs, 36 
Orange, coleopterous borer in, 9 
colored Reduvius, 13 
Dog, the, 37 
effects of blue-stone on, 10 
fruit of, perforated by lepidopterous 
larve, 12 
injured fruit of, attacked by a Nitidulid, 
12 
insects affecting the, 36 
leaves eaten by locusts, 13 
lecanium scales on, 11 
61 
Orange, the Red Bug an enemy of, 14, 38 
trees injured by the web-worm, 36 
twigs girdled by Oiketicus, 36 
Oxyope viridans on cotton, 40 
1 
Palma Christi, the, in cotton-fields, 41 
Papilio cresphontes larve on orange, 36 
plum, 36 
Parasites of Cotton-Worm, abundance of, 40 
uninjured by murvite 
solutions, 23 
Parasitized Cotton-Worms, how distinguished, 41 
Paris green, proportions of, for destroying Cotton 
Worms, 50 
Parlatoria, fungus on, 25 
Parlatoria pergandii, experiments on, 20, 25, 26 
how removed, 22 
Peach trees injured by Ageria exitiosa, 36 
Peanut injured by Eudamus, 37 
Pear, leaf-folder injuring, 35 
Persimmon, Dactylopius on, 36 
Pieris, the European, early appearance of, 53 
Pimpla conquisitor vs. Cotton-Worms, 41, 50 
Pines injured by Buprestis larva, 36 
Pine, Lophyrus on, 36 
Plum injured by Papilio cresphontes, 36 
Plusia brassice, cabbage injured by, 37 
Podisus destroyed by Diogmites, 40 
Polistes, three species of, preying upon Aletia 
larvee, 40 
Pomolo-citron roots, insects infesting, 36 
Potato injured by a species of Lytta, 37 
Prodenia larva on sweet potato, 13 
Proctocanthus milberti, 40 
Prunus caroliniana, decoction of, 51 
Pteris aquilina, emulsion of, 31, 42 
Pyrethrum, experiments with, on Cotton Worms, 
51 
experiments with the diluted extract 
of, 9 
water preparation of, 51 
Q. 
Quince, leaf-folder injuring, 35° 
R. 
Raphigaster hilaris vs. Boll-Worm, 50 
Red Bug as an enemy of the orange, 14, 38 
Reduvius on trees infested’ with lecanium hes- 
peridum, 13 
the orange-colored, 13 
Rust-mite, experiments on, 9, 12, 17 
destroyed by Cecidomyidous larva 
11,13 
infesting the citron, 11 
infesting the lemon, 11 
signs of presence of, 9 
s. 
Scale-insects, effects of Benham’s mixture upon, 
12 
experiments upon 
the orange, 19 
how loosened, 22 
loosened by storm, 23 
those affecting 
