152 



Watermelon — Continued. 



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



of Imbricated Snout-beetle, xxi. 



143. 



injury to, by cutworms, xvi, 84, 89. 



Watermelons infested by Leptoglossus 



oppositus, xxiii, 198. 

 Watkins, Jolm T., xxii, 145. 

 Weasels as enemies of White-grubs, 



xviii, 124. 

 Weber, H. A., xiii, 41. 

 Webster, F. M., xiii, 12. 165. 169; xv, 

 37, 61, 70; xvi, 60, 62, 63, 69; xvii, 76; 

 xviii, 10, 15. 17. 34. 149. 150, 158; xix. 

 23; xxi. 74. 80, 96, 97, 108, 117, 119; 

 xxii, 5. 6. 16; xxiii. 25, 27, 77, 86, 104, 

 134, 158, 162, 182, 192. 199, 202; xxiv. 

 6. 44, 118, 119, 124. 127. 

 Webster. R. L„ xxiv, 124. 

 Web-worm, Beet, xxi, 109-111. 

 Burrowing, xvi, X, 98-101. 

 dates and places of collection of, 



xvi, 100. 

 description of, and its imago, xvi, 

 99-100. 

 Common Garden, or Garden, xxi, 107, 



108-109; xxiii, 89-91, 227. 

 Fall, infection experiment with, xix, 



35, 46. 47. 

 Imported Garden, xxi, 107, 111-112. 

 injuries by, xxi, 106, 111, 112. 

 parasite of, xxi, 112. 

 Root, xiv, 6, 12-17. See Root Web- 

 worm. 

 Sorghum, xxiii, 169, 227. 

 Web-worms, xxiii, 10, 11, 95. 

 as beet insects, xxi, 50, 56. 

 burrowing, xxiii, 95-98, 226. 



distinguished from other web-worms 

 and cutworms, xxiii, 44. 

 garden, xxi, 106-112; xxiii, 7, 10, 226, 

 231. 

 food plants and oviposition of, xxi, 



106, 107. 

 life history and enemies of, and 

 measures against, xxi, 107. 

 root, or sod, xvi, IX; xviii, 4, 6; xxiii, 

 If;, 36-44, 226. 

 Wedding-bell injured by Common Red 



Spider, xxi, 58. 

 Weed, C. M., xiii. 162, 163; xv, 6; xvi. 



69, 71, 84; xvii, 70; xviii, 61, 



70, 89 ; xxiii, 193, 207 ; xxiv, 94. 

 On some Common Insects injuri- 

 ously affecting the Foliage of 

 Young Apple-trees in the Nurs- 

 ery and Orchard, xv, 45-85. 



On the Injurious Locusts of Cen- 

 tral Illinois, Misc. Ess., 48-56. 

 Weed, H. E., xxi, 165; xxiv, 6, 100, 103, 

 107. 



Weeds as food of Common Striped Cut- 

 worm, xxiii, 34. 

 of Dark-sided Cutworm, xxiii, 33. 

 of False Chinch-bug, xxiii, 118. 

 of Garden Web-worm, xxiii. 89. 

 of Granulated Cutworm, xxiii, 32. 

 of Imbricated Snout-beetle, xxiii, 



113. 

 of Pale-striped Flea-beetle, xxi, 



121. 

 of Silpha bituberosa, xxi, 137. 

 of Sulphur Leaf-roller, xxiii, 174. 

 of Tanymecus confertus, xxi, 145. 

 of Western Army-Cutworm, xxi, 

 102. 

 eggs of Larger Meadow Grasshopper 

 in stalks of, xxi, 135. 

 of tree-crickets in, xxiii. 216. 

 infested by Beet Aphis, xxi, 159. 

 by Corizus lateralis, xxi, 97. 

 by Flatas, xxi, 84; xxiii, 203. 

 by Garden Leaf-hopper, xxi, 88. 

 bv Large-eyed Purslane Bug, xxi, 



95. 

 by Liburnia ornata, xxiii, 204. 

 by Negro-bug, or Common Negro 



bug. xvi, 51; xxi, 99, 100. 

 by Pigweed Bug, xxi. 85. 

 by Stalk-borer, xxiii, 46. 

 leaf-beetles which breed on, xxi, 113. 

 leaf-hoppers infesting, xxi, 67, 68, 69, 



70, 71, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79. 

 leaves of, eaten by Southern Corn 



Root-worm beetle, xxi, 126. 

 rhubarb and dock curculios breeding 



in stems of, xxiii. 114. 

 Thyanta custator on, xxiii, 196. 

 treehoppers infesting, xxi, 80, 81. 

 Weevil, Clay-colored, occurrence of ami 



injuries bv. xxi. 144, 155. 

 Weevils, xiii, "40, 114-115, 179; xviii, 4, 

 6; xxi. 143. 145: xxiv, 44, 49. 

 injury to Corn by, xxiii. 5. 113. 

 West. J. A., xxiv, 148, 150. 158. 162. 

 Westcott, O. S.. xxiv. 140. 141. 142. 

 Western Army Cutworm, xxi, 51, 102- 

 103. 

 Cabbage Flea-beetle, xxi, 123; xxiii, 



109. 

 Cricket, Misc. Ess.. 118. 

 Green June-beetle, xxiii, 102. 



Stink-bug, xxi. 97-99 : xxiii. 116. 233. 

 Striped Cutworm, Misc. Ess.. 68; xxiii. 

 26-27, 232. 

 Weston, H. S.. xxii. 139. 

 Whale-oil soap and Paris green for 

 Monoxia consputa, xxi, 128. 

 compared with California and Ore- 

 gon washes for San Jose Scale, 

 xxii, 89-90. 



