INDEX. 



Acherontia atropos, 40 

 Agricultural Journal of Cape Co- 

 lony, where procurable, Preface 

 Alphitopola maculosa, 32 

 Amblyomma hebraeum, 103 107 

 Anobium paniceum, 14 17 (see 



" Boot Beetle ") 



"Australian Bug": appearance 

 of in S. Africa, 70 ; description 

 of, 72 79 ; methods of preven- 

 tion and remedy, 7990 ; soft- 

 soap washes, to destroy, 80 85 ; 

 hand-picking, and shaking down 

 to destroy, 8789; danger of 

 spreading, 90; list of applica- 

 tions used to destroy, 90 ; insect 

 destroyers of, 91 97 ; observa- 

 tion of male of, 97 



Bean Bruchus, 22 28 ; descrip- 

 tion of beans infested by, 25 ; 

 grub furnished with three pairs 

 of foot-like appendages, 26 ; to 

 destroy in infested beans, 26, 

 27; Calvert's Carbolic Acid, 

 MeDougali's Sewage Carbolic, 

 and Blue Vitriol, useful to 

 destroy infestation, 27 ; fumi- 

 gation by bisulphide of carbon, 

 27 ; how to distinguish infested 

 beans, 28 ; change of crop as a 

 means of prevention, 28 ; mea- 

 sures of prevention and remedy, 

 2628 



Bean-seed Beetle, 2228 



Bisulphide of carbon to poison 

 insects in seeds, 27 



Blister Beetles, 21, 22 



Blue Vitriol for dressing infested 

 bean-seed, 27 



Boot Beetle, 1417; allied to 

 English Death-watch Beetle, 

 15 ; method of injury, 15 ; to 

 boots at Port Elizabeth and 

 Cape Town, exported from 

 England, 15, 16 ; method of 

 life of, 16 ; suggestion of means 

 of prevention for, 17 



Bruchus sp. ? (subarmatus, Gyll.?), 



Calvert's Carbolic Acid, useful for 

 dressing beans infested by 

 Beetle, 27 



Carrot-root and Potato-leaf Beetle, 

 19,20 



Ceratitis citriperda, 49 



Ceroplesis bicincta, 29 

 hottentotta, 31 



Chafers, to destroy, by shaking 

 down, 4 ; by catching with nets, 

 14 ; grubs, sometimes at roots 

 of grass, 5 ; grubs, to turn out 

 from roots, 4 ; kind of informa- 

 tion needed regarding methods 

 to destroy, 5 



Chrysopa (?icerye, n.sp.), de- 

 structive to Australian Bug, 

 93 96 ; description of larva (or 

 maggot) of, 94 



Coccinella (Ladybird Beetle) de- 

 structive to Australian Bug, 

 91 



Cyrtacanthacris ruficornis, 65 



Death's-head Moth, 4043 ; same 

 species as the British kind, 41 ; 

 fond jof honey, 41 ; caterpillars 

 feed on vine-leaves, 42 ; got rid 

 of by hand-picking, 43 



