INDEX. VII 
life history, 147. 
literature, 63. 
remedies, 148. 
Cotton, injuries to, by oblique-banded leaf- 
roller 94. 
smeared dagger, 82. 
Country Gentleman cited, 15,32... 
Crab apple, injuries to by Paria. 161, 169, 
176. 
Crepidodera fuseula. Addenda, I. 
Crescent strawberry, 125, 126, 127, 128. 
Oresylic soap for flea negro bug, 107. 
tarnished plant bug. 131. 
eroeataria, Angerona, 61,80. See 
strawberry span-worm. 
Crotch, G. R., on Scelodonta pubescens, 
164, 
Crown-borer, 61, 62, 68, 142, 151,176, 179, 180. See 
strawberry crown-borer. 
miner, 62, 141, 179. See strawberry 
crown miner. 
Crushing army worms, 638, 84. 
migratory insects, 68. 
Cryptocephulus quadrimaculatus, 176. 
Cucumber, injuries to, by tarnished plant 
bug, 122. 
Cultivation of grass lands in some hoed 
erop, for root-eating insects, 67. 
strawberry root insects, 67. 
white grubs, 67, 
Curculionide, 60. 
Currant. injuries to, by Angerona crocata- 
ria, 81. 
millipede, 140. 
Nematocampa filamentaria, 79. 
Cutter’s Seedling strawberry, 148. 
Cutting off and destroying infested stalks 
to kill wheat bulb worm, 27. 
Cutworms, calendar, 179. 
injuring fruit trees, $4. 
sorghum, 40. 
strawberries, 61, 84,85. 
life history, 85. 
remedies, 85. 
Cymatophora hnmaria, 78. __ 
pampinaria, 61, 76-78. See 
strawberry span worm. 
green 
brown 
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Dahlia, 121. 
Decaying vegetation, 56,58. 
Dejean, on Paria gilvipes, 159. 
Derzocoris rapidus, 10, 62; 124, 127, 135-138. 
See dusky plant bug. 
Destroying eggs of forest tent caterpillar, 
strawberry aphis, 101. 
insects, 68. 
weeds to prevent njuries of stalk- 
porer, 69, 114. j 
Destruction of first setting of young straw- 
berry plants, to destroy insect eggs, 68. 
destructor, Nysius, 104-106. See false 
chinch-bug. 
Diabrotica longicornis, 55. 
worm. 
Digging up and killing by hand the grub of 
gollsmith beetle, 148. 
grub of Allorhina nitida, 150. 
white grubs, 145. 
Dipping plants in kerosene and water to 
kill strawberry aphis, 104. 
Diptera, 61, 62. 
Diseases of caterpillars, 10, 
European cabbage worm, 10. 
forest tent caterpillar, 10. 
inseets, 10. 
oblique-banded leaf-roller, 95. 
strawberry root-worms, 170. 
Ditching to arrest migration of 
worm, 68, 84. 
injurious inseets, 68. 
Dor-bugs, 144. 
Downing strawberry, 125, 127, 128. 
Downy flea beetle, 62,179. See Epitrix fus- 
eula. 
Dusky plant-bug, 10, 61, 62, 185-138. 
calendar, 179. 
description, 136. 
distribution, 135. 
injuries to strawberries, 124, 127, 135. 
life history, 138. 
literature, 136. 
remedies, 138. 
See corn root- 
army 
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Farle, F 8., on Colaspis brunnea, 170. 
on grasshoppers, 87. 
on Paria aterrima, 162. 
on Seelodonta nebulosus, 164. 
on tarnished plant bug, 125. 
Early scarlet strawberry, 148, 
Early transplanting of strawberries to pre- 
vent the deposit of insect eggs, 68. 
Eecopsis permundana, 61, 111. See straw- 
berry flower worm. 
Eggs of forest tent caterpillar destroyed, 
10. 
insects, safeguards against their de- 
posit and transfer, 68. 
strawberry aphis destroyed, 104. 
insects destroyed, 106. 
Elateride, 60, 62, 145. 
Elm, 146. 
elymi, Isosoma, 32, 32. 
Emphytus maculatus, 61, 69, 
strawberry false-worm. 
Empoa albopicta, 181. 
leaf-hopper. 
Emulsion of kerosene for dusky plant bug, 
138. 
false chineh-bug, 106. 
71-76. See 
See green apple 
