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scripta, Melasoma, 186. 

 scoparius, Sphenophorus, 52. 

 Scudder, S.-H., 167. 

 scudderi, Melanoplus, 142, 229. 

 Scudderia furcata, 143-144. 

 pistillata, 143-144. 

 texensis, 143-144. 

 Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper, 142-143. 

 sculptilis, Sphenophorus, 52. 

 scutellaris, Orthoperus, 180. 

 Sedges as food of Chinch-bug, 59. 

 of larvae of corn bill-bugs, 52. 

 eaten by Dreeculacephala moUipes, and eggs 

 laid on same, 205. 

 Seed-corn as food of thousand-legged worms, 

 222. 

 beetle, 178. 



injured by Agonoderus pallipes, 178. 

 Maggot, 2, 5, 9, 70, 228. 

 semitectus, Colastus, 181. 

 sepulchralis, Euphoria, 99, 100. 

 serrulata, Alnus, 170. 

 servus, Euschistus, 195. 

 Setaria, Yellow Sorghum Plant-louse found 



on, 210. 

 sexnotata, Cicadula, 121, 123. 

 Short-winged Green Grasshopper, 212. 

 Shrubbery injured by red spiders, 223. 

 by Strawberry Crown-girdler, 193. 

 Shrubs and trees as breeding place of Flatas, 

 203. 

 buds and leaves of, as food of W-marked 



Cutworm, 31. 

 injured by tree-crickets, 216. 

 injury to, by Dingy Cutworm, 27. 

 leaves of, as food of Saddle-back Caterpillar, 

 173. 

 Sibine stimulea, 173. 

 Silk-fly, 188. 



Silphium, Diabrotica atripennis taken on, 189. 

 silvaticum, Orchelimum, 144. 

 similalis, Loxostege, 89, 227. 

 simplex, Anabrus, 148. 

 Siphocoryne avenoe, 206. 

 Sirrine, F. A., 33. 

 Slingerland, M. V., 49, 51. 

 Small Green Grasshopper, 142, 229. 

 Smaller Corn Stalk-borer, 10, 94-95, 232. 



meadow grasshoppers, 147-148. 

 Smartweed as food plant of Apantesis arge, 75. 

 of Common Striped Cutworm, 34. 

 of Smartweed Caterpillar, 170. 

 of Smartweed Flea-beetle, 191. 

 of Yellow Bear, 74. 

 Caterpillar, 170, 230. 



Flea-beetle, food plants of and injury by. 

 190-191. 

 Smith, J. B., 19, 33, 50, 84, 86, 173. 

 Snout-beetle, Imbricated, 113, 231. 

 Snout-beetles, 192-194, 226. 



injurious to Corn, 229. 

 Snout-moth. See Fodder Worm. 

 Snowy Cricket, 216. 

 Sod Web-worm, Common, 230. 

 Striped, 230. 



Sod — Continued. 



web-worms, 36-44, 230. 



descriptive flistinctions for species of, 



149-155. 

 general descri))tion of, 36. 

 injuries by, 36-42. 

 life histories of, 42, 43. 

 methods of injury by, 37, 38, 226. 

 prevention and remedy for, 43. 

 Solanum nigrum as Vjreeding plant of Potato 

 Flea-beetle, 190. 

 wild, as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 

 Solenopsis debilis, 228. 

 sorghiella, Celaraa, 169, 227. 



Nola, 169. 

 Sorghum as food plant of Army-worm, 49. 

 of Diabrotica tenella, 188. 

 damage to, by Thyanta perditor, 117. 

 destroyed by Texan Agricultural Ant, 159. 

 eaten by Leptoglossus phyllopus, 197. 

 infested by Corn Flea-beetle, 110. 



by Mealy Flata, 203. 

 injuries to, by Corn Leaf-aphis, 124, 206. 

 by Small Green Grasshopper, 142. 

 by Sorghum Web-worm, 169. 

 by Wheat-head Army-worm, 83. 

 by Yellow Sorghum Plant-louse, 210. 

 leaves, eg'is of Drseculacephala mol'ipes de- 

 posited on, 205. 

 saccharatum infested by Larger Corn Stalk- 

 borer, 92. 

 subject to injury by Grass-worm, 82. 

 Web-worm, 227. 



food habits and description of, 169. 

 soror, Diabrotica, 188. 

 Sorrel as food plant of Yellow Bear, 74. 

 Southern Corn Leaf-beetle, 103-104, 231. 

 Root-worm, 8, 188, 228, 229. 



discussion of, cited, 89. 

 Stalk-worm, 10. 

 Grain-louse, 134, 206. 

 Sow-thistle, Clover Plant-louse on, 208. 

 Spanish flies. 111. 



Needles as food plant of little Negro-bug, 

 116. 

 eggs of meadow grasshoppers in stems of, 

 146. 

 Spanworms, 173. 

 speciosus, Hesperotettix, 142. 

 Spermacoce glabra as food plant of Theretra 



tersa, 167. 

 Sphenophorus, 11, 17, 115, 229. 

 cariosus, 52. 

 ochreus, 52, 229. 

 parvulus, 52, 55, 229. 

 pertinax, 52. 

 placidus, 52. 

 robustus, 52. 

 scoparius, 52. 

 sculptilis, 52. 

 venatus, 52. 

 Sphragisticus nebulosus, 198, 233. 

 Spiders, red, 223, 233. 



Spinach as food plant of Common Striped Cut- 

 worm, 34. 

 of Dark-sided Cutworm, 33. 



