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INDEX 



Port Fellowship, Brasenose Col- 



lege, 13, 57 



" Post-horn " beetle attack, 224 

 Potter, Professor M. C., 144 

 ".Proceedings of the Convention 



of Fruit Growers," 206 

 Ptinus, 263 



Pupation of butterflies, 334 

 " Puritan," "The picture of a," 10 

 Puss moth, see Dicramira vinula 

 Putcher for catching salmon, 36, 



327, 328 



" Putts " or "putchers," 36 (Fig.) 

 Pyrcthrum, 216 



Q 



"Quasi Cursores," Hole's, 308, 311 



R 



Rabies, an instance of, 92 



Railway travelling, 46 



Rassam, Mr. Hormuzd, 205 



Red-currant mite, 157 seePhytoptus 



Redenhall-cum-Harleston, 57 



" Red spider," 145, 221 (Fig.), 300 



Redwater " tick," 193 



Reports (annual), plan of prepara- 



tions, 78 ; discontinued, 66 

 Retinia buohana, " Post Horn," 224 

 Reuter, Dr., letters to, 244 

 Ribcs nigrum, 156 

 Ribes rubrum, 157 

 Rice weevil, see Calandra oryzce 

 Riley, Professor, 78, 80 ; letters to, 



179-184 ; resignation of, 221, 



223 ; sketch of, 332, app. 

 Ritzema Bos, see Bos 

 Roberts, Margaret, 17 

 Roman coins found near the Severn 



Cliffs, 174 ; military station, 7 ; 



pottery, 8, 174; PI. xi. 

 Rothamsted, 203, 217, 298 

 Roundell, Charles, the "Rural 



Reader," 273 

 Rural Economy, Sibthorpian Pro- 



fessor of, at Oxford, 225 

 " Ruricola," nom de plume of J. 



Curtis, 184 

 Rust-red flour beetle, see Tribolium 



ferrugineum 



Saddle fly, Cecidomyia (Diplosis) 



cquestris, 137 (Fig.) 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 57 



' Salix caprca, 103 

 Salmon-fishing on the Severn, 36 

 Samian cup, 175 

 San Jose scale, see Aspidiotuspcnii- 



ciosus 



Sap-wood beetle, see Scolytus pruni 

 Saurian remains, 41, PI. xi. 

 Scale insects, 242, 257 

 Scarabaeid beetles (rare), 222 

 Schaumerde, a sugar by-product, 



236 



" Scheele's-green," 201 

 Schistoccrca paranensis, 229 (Fig.) 

 Schizoneura lanigera, Hausm, 



American blight, 142, 143, 144 



(Fig-) 



Schools, coloured diagrams for 

 elementary, 99 ; see Diagrams 



Schoyen, Dr., letters to, 237-239 ; 

 notes on wasps from, 218 



Science and Art Department, in- 

 vited to help, 87 ; diagrams for, 

 88 ; official plagiarism, 88 



Scolytus destructor, Oliv., 169, 170 

 (Fig.) ; S, pruni, Ratz., 270, 271 

 (Fig.) 



Seaweeds, 39 



Sedbury Park, 7, 14-19 ; remini- 

 scences of, 15 ; routine of life at, 

 17, PI. i. 



Servants, Miss Ormerod's kindly 

 treatment of, 94 



Service, Mr. Robert, letter to, 99 ; 

 notes by, 104, 105 



Sesia bembeciformis, see Troch ilium 



Seth, Professor, letter from, 303 



Severn and Wye, the, 33, PJ. ix. 



Severn, cliffs, PI. x. ; colour of, 35, 

 41 ; shipping of, 36 



" Shag" or " Chog," 197 



Sheep spider fly, or " ked," 141 

 (Fig.) ; nostril fly, 304, 305 ; see 

 Melophagus 



" Sheep Scab," paper on, 299, 306 



Shell-(snail)-slug, 191 (Fig.), 192 



Shells, Miss Georgiana Ormerod's 

 love for, 3 



Shot-borer, see Xyleboms dispar 



Signoret's, Dr., opinion, 79 



Silk, moths injuring, 219 



Silpha opaca, Linn., 142 (Fig.) 



Silphida, 219 



" Silver-top " wheat, 197 



Simpson, Mr. Wm., letter from, 72 



Sirex juvencus, 81 ; S. gigas, 81 



