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INDEX. 



Peas and beans, Blister Beetles 

 injurious to, 21, 22 



Pentodon contractus, 11 

 nireus, 10 



Phryneta spinator, 33 



Phymateus morbillosus, 62 



Pigeon Fly, 61, 62 



Plutella cruciferarum, 46 



Potato-leaf and Carrot-root Beetle, 

 20; allied species found in 

 potato-grounds and on ploughed 

 fields in St. Helena, 20 



Prevention and remedy, measures 

 of : for caterpillars turning soil 

 round stems of infested trees, 

 40 ; shaking does not answer 

 where caterpillars have clinging 

 powers, 46 ; hand-picking, 40, 

 43 ; sheep driving, 49 ; chrysalis 

 cocoons, turning out from the 

 ground, 43 ; picking off trees, 

 46 ; burning, on remains of 

 infested crop or weed plants, 

 48 ; burying down, 48 ; shaking 

 down moths, 46 (jarring trees 

 so as to shake off the infestation, 

 and stirring the ground, is also 

 serviceable for getting rid of 

 Beetles or of their maggots 

 below the surface of the earth) ; 

 change of ground, 59 ; dressing 

 infested ground with quicklime, 

 &c., to kill bird pests, 59; 

 clearing out harbouring places 

 in stock or ostrich enclosures, 

 60 ; burning infested grass to 

 destroy Tick, 110; for washes 

 see references. 



Promeces linearis, 34 



Psammodes obliquatus, 18 



Ptyelus grossus, 65 



Bhabdotis semipunctata, 11 

 Kodolia iceryae, 9193 ; introduc- 

 tion of into New Zealand to 

 destroy Australian Bug, Preface 



Scale, Cottony Cushion, 6993 

 Orange, 98103 



Shell Tick, 103107 ; female of, 

 known as|Great Cattle Tick, 104 ; 

 McDougall's dressing, good ap- 

 plication for, 107 



Tarred bands, to prevent passage 

 of wingless insects, 88, 89 



Ticks (Cattle) South African and 

 South American, 103 110; 

 McDougall's Smear, and Tom- 

 linson and Hayward's Glycerine 

 Wash, useful to destroy, 107, 

 109 ; preventive measures, 110 



Tobacco, with soft-soap wash, 81 



Tree Froghopper, 65 68 



Trilocha ficicola, 43 



Trypeta Fly, 4956 



Vine Chafer, 2 5 



Washes, glycerine, 109; ostrich 

 droppings boiled in water, 86 ; 

 soft-soap, 80 85 ; to dissolve 

 sulphur in, 81 ; whale-oil soap 

 and sulphide of soda, 82 ; 

 method of mixing soft-soap and 

 mineral oil in U. S. A., 83, 84 ; 

 soft-soap and paraffin, as used 

 by Mr. Ward of Stoke Edith, 

 84; as used by Mr. Malcolm 

 Dunn of Dalkeith, 8486 

 Wheat Chafers, 59 ; 10, 11 

 Willow Beetles, 29 32; very 

 common and injurious, 32 



F, NEWMAN AND CO., PRINTERS, HATTON GARDEN, B.C. 



