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CHAPTER p AGB 



Preface to Part I. - 5 



I. Introduction to Entomology - 11 



II. Classification of Insects - - 1 8 



III. The forming of Collections of Economic and other Insects 



recommended, with directions for collecting and preserv- 

 ing same - - 19 



IV. On the necessity for the preservation of our insect - 



destroying birds, with an alphabetical list of the 



principal kinds - - 23 



V. Horticultural Quarantine Rules - - 28 



VI. The Woolly Aphis, or American Blight 35 



VII. The Codlin Moth - - 45 



VIII. The Curve-winged Apple Moth - 57 



IX. The Apple-tree Borer Beetle 61 



X. The Light-brown Apple Moth - 67 



XL The Apple-root Borer - 71 



XII. The Apple-bark Scale - 77 



XIII. The Apple Beetle - - 83 



XIV. The Harlequin Fruit Bug - 89 

 XV. The Red Spider 93 



XVI. The Pear and Cherry Slug - - 99 



XVII. The Rutherglen Fly-pest - 105 



XVIII. The Cherry-borer - 113 



XIX. The Pear Phytoptus - 119 



XX. Tabulated List of Material in general use for the destruc- 

 tion of Noxious Insects, after Maskell, with personal 



observations and additions - - - - 124 



APPENDICES. 



Illustrations of Spray -pumps and other Machines used for 

 the destruction of Insects .... 129 



