GENERAL INDEX. 



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Ant, honey-producing, in Australia, ref., V, 259. 

 harvesting, to destroy nests of. III, 466. 

 house, Mexican, V, in6. 

 leaf-cutting, remedies against, IV, 325i. 

 little red, pest in France, II, 200, 230. 

 red, destroying insect specimens, in South 

 America, II, 22. 



attacking bedbug, II, 104; VI, 340. 

 life history and remedies against, II, lOG. 

 carrying off Termes, in., IV, 146. 

 in California, IV, 203. 

 destroying white grubs, IV, 391. 

 Bmall black, fondness for kerosene, VI, 41. 

 "Tom Raffles," of Jamaica, VI, 44. 

 white, flight of, IV, 14G. 

 and fungi, V, 134. 

 remedies against, V, 201. 

 {See also Termes, termites, etc.) 

 Ants, bisulphide of carbon against, I, 124. 

 destroying young maples, I, 346. 

 how to destroy hills of, II, 252. 

 injuring watermelons, III, 71. 

 in their relation to aphides, III, 233, 234. 

 chrj'somelid larva; in nest of, IV, 148. 

 bark-louse in nests of, IV, 158. 

 guarding Entilia sinuata, V, 244. 

 edible qualities of, V, 268. 

 hunting, usefulness of, in Trinidad, VI, 198. 

 and the fruit grower, note, VI, 277. 

 swarms of, VII, 52, 280. 

 on cotton, VII, 242. 

 intelligence in, VII, 423. 

 Anthaxia reneogaster, on Juglans californica, IV, 

 260. 



cyanella=quercata, VII, 385. 

 quercata, on grape-vine, VII, 385. 

 viridicornis, eating elm, I, 343. 



parasitized by Ca;nophanes anthaxiic, IV, 

 258. 

 Antherfea assama, in India, ref., II, 388. 

 mylitta, in India, ref., II, 388. 

 pernyi, distinguished from yama-mai, I, 270. 

 polyphemus. (See Telea, III, 338.) 

 yama-mai, art., I, 273-277. 

 Anthicid, reported injurious to fruit, V, 197. 

 Anthicus ictericus, in Florida gopher hole, VI, .305. 

 Anthomyia, Aleochara larva feeding on, IV, 27. 

 near calopteni, mining leaves of Chenopodium, 



II, 281. 

 angustifrons, on bean, VII, 205. 

 brassica?, kerosene emulsion against, I 15. 

 in Colorado, II, 146. 



parasitized by Adelura dimidiata, 111,58. 

 Aleochara bred from. III, 318. 

 in England, ni., V, 293. 

 ceparum, Aleochara bred from, ref.. Ill, 318. 



in Europe, ref., IV, 2 ; V, 296. 

 peshawarensis, parasite of Acridium peregrinum, 



VI, 3. 

 radicum, var. calopteni = Phorbia fuscicep8 = 



Hylemyia deceptiva, VI, 372. 

 sp., on exhumed corpses, II, 371. 

 Anthoniyian, fringed, injuring beans, VII, 429. 

 Anthomyiidw, causing myiasis. III, 39. 

 injuring sugar beets. III, 470. 

 parasitism of, VI, 203. 

 Anthonomus grandis, in Texas, VII, art., 295-309, 

 notes, 273, 281, 



Anthonomus grandis, remedies against, VII, 304. 

 musculus (= signatus), iu Pennsylvania, I, 85. 

 on blackbei-ry, IV, 76. 

 characters of, V, 176. 

 not the strawberry weevil, V, 175. 

 nigrinus, on Solanum, art., VII, 350-352. 

 pomorum, in England, m., V, 293. 

 prunicida, oviposition of, I, 89. 

 a good species, II, 259. 

 types of, IV, 393. 

 4-gibbus, in Iowa, ref.. Ill, 251. 

 Bcutellaris, distinct from prunicida, II, 259. 



Sigalphus canadensis, bred from, II, 280. 

 signatus, in Canada report, III, 359. 

 on blackberry, IV, 76. 

 articles on, V, 167-186 ; VII, 14-23. 

 remedies against, V, 182-185; VII, 19, 23. 

 in Delaware, notice, V, 217. 

 in New Jersey, VI, 191. 

 compared with A. nigrinus, VII, 350. 

 {See also A. musculus, cited in error.) 

 Anthophila, genital armature iu males of, II, 38fi. 

 Anthrax cingulata, parasitic on Lepidoptera, ref., 

 II, 354. 

 circumdata, parasitic on Lepidoptera, ref., II, 



354. 

 flava, parasitic on Lepidoptera, ref., II, 353,354. 

 hypomelas, bred from cutworm pupa;, II, 353. 

 molitor, bred from cutworm pupa>, II, 353. 

 scrobiculata, bred from cutworm, II, 281,353; 

 III, 259. 

 Anthrenus, not found in Chile, I, 154. 



Bcrophularia^, natural history of, II, 127. 

 museum pest in Europe, III, 34. 

 in insect collection in Massachusetts, III, 



405. 

 locally called Russian moth, V, 271. 

 in New York, ref., VI, 283. 

 varius (=verbasci), injuring whalebone, I, 222. 

 attacking horn spoons, II, 147. 

 infesting museums. III, 34,405. 

 injuring cayenne pepper, IV, 332. 

 damaging books, V, 353. 

 on Viburnum, VI, 258. 

 unusual experience with, VI, 336. 

 attacking powdered cramp bark, VII, 



32. 

 feeding on a comb, VII, 53. 

 = A. verbasci, VII, 419. 

 Antiopa (butterfly), voice of, IV, 166. 

 Antigaster mirabilis, ovipositing in eggs of OEcanthus 



fasciatus, VII, 245. 

 Antinounin, as an insecticide, ref., VI, 211,281. 

 Antispila ampelopsiella, parasitized by Ehyssalus 

 antispila;, II, 351. 



nyssEefoliella, on sour gum, IV, 138. 

 Antistrophus l.-pisum, galls on Lygodesmia, IV, 203. 

 AntrostomuB carolinensis, beetles in stomach, II, 189. 

 Anurida maritima, anatomy of, ref.. Ill, 310. 

 Aonidia aurantii, washes against, III, 1. 



in Syria, III, 417. 

 Apanteles acronycta;, pai'asitic on Acronycta populi, 

 III, 16. 

 aletia;, parasitic on Aletia xylina. III, 17. 

 argynnidis, parasitic on Argynnis cybele, III, 



15. 

 atalantw, hosts of. III, 16. 



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