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Pollen, Corn, as food of Corn-feeding Syrphus- 

 fiy, 162, 163. 

 of ffibalus pugnax, 194. 

 of capsid, 202. 

 of Phalacrus politus, liSO. 

 eaten by meadow grasshoppers, 145. 

 polycephalum, Gnaphalium, 17.5. 

 Polygonum aviculare, 76. 

 Pop-corn injured by Red-banded Leaf-roller, 



175. 

 Poplar injured by Smartweed Caterpillar, 170. 

 Lombardy, as food plant of Smartweed Cat- 

 pillar, 170. 

 Poppy as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 



of Ear-worm, 67. 

 Porthetria dispar, 87-89. 



Potato as breeding and food plant of Potato 

 Flea-beetle, 190. 

 as food plant of blister-beetle-s, 112. 

 of Clay-backed Cutworm, 29. 

 of Common Striped Cutworm, ,34. 

 of Cotton Cutworm, 80. 

 of Dark-sided Cutworm, 33. 

 of Dissosteira longipennis, 213. 

 of Garden Web-worm, 90. 

 of Grass worm, 82. 

 of Greasy Cutworm, 21. 

 of Variegated Cutworm, 24. 

 blossoms as food of Western Green Stink- 

 bug, 116. 

 -bugs, old-fashioned. See Blister-beetles, 

 destroyed by Pale-striped Flea-beetle, 108. 

 Flea-beetle, breeding plants of, and injuries 



by, 190. 

 infested by Stalk-borer, 46. 

 injured by False Chinch-bug, 118. 



by Imbricated Snout-beetle, 113. 

 Sweet. See under Sweet Potato. 

 Potatoes as food- of thousand-legged worms 

 222. 

 injured by adult Diabrotica tenella, 1S8. 

 Prairie Walking-stick, 211, 229. 

 pratensis, Lygus, 12, 118, 233. 

 Prenolepis imparls, 158-1.59. 



nitens, 158. 

 Prionus injurious to roots of Corn, 12. 

 Prodenia, 10. 

 eudiopta, 79. 

 lineatella, 79. 

 ornithogalli, 79-81. 

 eudiopta, SO. 

 pruinosa. Crmenis, 203. 

 Prunes injured by Western Green June-beetle,- 



102. 

 Pseudanaphora arcanella, 44, 95, 97. 

 pseudargyria, Heliophila, 171. 



Leucania, 171, 231. 

 Psylliodes convexior feeding on Corn, 192. 

 interstitialis, 192. 

 punctulata taken on Corn, 191. 

 Pterostichus lucublandus and P. permundus 



feeding on Corn, 177. 

 pugnax, CEbalus, 194. 

 pulicaria, Chsetoonema, 109. 



Corimeltena, 115, 233. 

 pulicarius, Latridius, 182. 



pumila, Melanophthalma, 182. 

 Piimpkin as food plant of Ear-worm, 07. 

 of Garden Web-worm, 89, 90. 

 of W-marked Cutworm, 31. 

 Strawberry (Jrown-girdler found at roots of 

 193. 

 punctulata, Psylliodes, 191. 



Purslane as food plant of Garden Web-worm. 

 89. 

 of Grass-worm, 82. 

 of Pale-striped Flea-beetle, 108. 

 pusilla, Phyllotreta, 109. 

 Pyrethrum for Spindle-worm, 86. 



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4-guttatus, Ips, 11-12, 13, 181, 227, 228. 

 4-punctata, Agallia, 121, 123. 

 4-punctatus, (Ecanthus, 217, 218, 220. 

 Quinces injured by Striped Cricket, 215. 



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Radish as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 

 of Common Striped Cutworm, 34. 

 of Dark-sided Cutworm, 33. 

 of Glassy Cutworm, 20. 

 of Seed-corn Maggot, 70. 

 of Western Green Stink-bug, 116. 

 destroyed by Pale-striped Flea-beetle, 108. 

 injured by False Chinch-bug, 118. 

 by Imbricated Snout-beetle, 113. 

 Ragweed as breeding plant of Green Plata, 203. 

 as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 

 of Dusky Leaf-bug, 199. 

 of Euphoria inda, 101. 

 of Pale-striped Flea-beetle, 108. 

 of Salt-marsh Caterpillar, 74. 

 of Stalk-borer, 46. 

 infested by Corn Flea-beetle, 110. 

 Rape as food plant of Cotton Cutworm, 80. 

 rapidus, Calocoris, 199, 233. 

 Raspberries as food of thousand-legged worms 

 222. 

 burrowed by Euphoria inda, 101. 

 eaten by Euschistus variolarius, 196. 

 injured by Western Green June-beetle, 102. 

 Raspberry as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 

 of Cotton Cutworm, 80. 

 of Red-banded Leaf-roller, 175. 

 of Rose-chafer, 184. 

 canes infested by Stalk-borer, 46. 

 eggs of meadow grasshoppers in stems of, 146. 

 injured by Imbricated Snout-beetle, 113. 

 by Sweet-Potato Flea-beetle, 111. 

 by tree-crickets, 216. 

 leaves rolled by Rusty-Brown Tortrix, 176. 

 stems burrowed by Parajulus venustus, 223. 

 wild and cultivated, as food plant of Smart- 

 weed Caterpillar, 1 70. 

 Red-backed Cutworm, 232. 



description, range, injuries, and life his- 

 tory of, 34-35. 

 -banded Leaf-roller, 175-176. 

 Haw infested by Euphoria inda, 101. 

 -legged Grasshopper, 67, 136, 142, 219, 229. 

 spiders, 223, 233. 



