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INDEX. 



Bunt, Tilletia, sp., v. Fungi. 

 Burying beetles, v. Coleoptera. 



CABBAGE, the top bud of palm trees, 



betel, cocoa-nut, palmyra, etc., v. 



Cocoa-nut Palm. 

 Casrenia, the poisonous principle of 



Phyrostigma venenosum bean, v. 



Deiopeia pulchella. 

 Calliphora vornitoria, Blue -fly, v. 



Flies. 

 Camarimina vaiiabile. Its grub 



injures the coffee plant in Ceylon, 



v. Coffee. 

 Camphor powder protects stored 



seeds, v. Tetranichidse. 

 Capundium, v. Fungi. 

 Carabidre. the ground beetle family 



of the Coleoptera ; nearly all the 



species are carnivorous and bene- 

 ficial, v. Coleoptera. 

 Caranx fallax, a poisonous fish, v. 



Fish. 

 Carp of Himalaya, poisonous, v. 



Fish. 

 Carpenter bee, Xylocopa, sp., q.r., 



also Hymenoptera. 

 Cassida, sp., attacks the cold season 



crops of Northern India, v. Cold 



Season. 

 Castor-oil plant, food of Achsea meli- 



certe and Bombyx, sp., v. Ricinus 



communis. 

 Casuarina trees, injured by Aclieta 



and Ceriosterna, q.v. 

 Cattle killed by swallowing a small 



Bombyx, on castor-oil leaves, v. 



Bombyx. 



Cattle murrains, v. Mammals. 

 Census of 1881, v. p. 11. 

 Centipedes, Scolopendridre, q.v. 

 Cerambycidae, v. Coleoptera. 

 Cetoniidse, rose beetles, a family of 



the Coleoptera, q.v. 

 Chsetomiuin, v. Fungi. 

 Chafer, v. Hoplosternus, Lachno- 



sterna, Melolonthon. 

 Charras, Hind., resin of Cannabis 



sativa, q.v. 

 Cheer pine, Pinus longifolia, v. 



Buprestis, Cheer Pine. 

 Chinch bug, its ravages, v. p. 15. 

 Chinese gall, v. Aphidse. 

 Chionyphe, Madura foot, v. Fungi. 

 Cholum, Tarn., Sorghum vulgnre, 

 q.v. 



ChrysomelMse, a family of the Coleo- 

 ptera. The larvae of these insects 

 are chiefly injurious to the leaves 

 of plants, v. Coleoptera, Gossypium. 



Cicendelidae, tiger beetles, a family 

 of the Coleoptera ; nearly all the 

 species are carnivorous and bene- 

 ficial, v. Bug, Coleoptera. 



Cimex lectularius, Bed bug, v. Bug. 



Cimicidse, v. Bug. 



Cladosporium, poppy disease, v. 

 Poppy. 



Clarias magur, v. Fish. 



Clasterisporum, v. Fungi. 



Claviceps, a fungus, v. Fungi. 



Click beetles, Elateridse, q.v., also 

 Coleoptera. 



Clinteria chloronata, a rose beetle, 

 one of the Cetoniidre, a family of 

 the Coleoptera. It does much 

 injury to coffee trees, the grub eat- 

 ing the roots, and the beetles the 

 blossoms, v. Coffee, Coleoptera. 



Cocculus acuminatus, food of a Bom- 

 byx, q.v. 



Cochin grub, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, q.v. 



Coffee-leaf rot, Pellicularia, q.v. 



Coffee rat, GolundaEllioti, v. Coffee. 



Coffee rot, v. Capnodium, q.v. 



Coffee trees are much injured by the 

 four beetles, Lachnosterna pinguis, 

 Leucopholis pinguis, Anomola elata, 

 and Mimela xanthorrhina, v. 

 Coffee. 



Cordia myxa in Kamaon ; its fruit 

 stones sucked by a large red bug, 

 v. Bug. 



Coreidae, family of the Heteroptera, 

 v. Bug. 



Corn blight in Russia, v. p. 14. 



Corn weevils, Sitophilus granarius 

 and S. orizse, q.v. 



Cotton enemies, Ciccadella, sp., 

 Depressaria, sp., q.r. 



Cotton grown with hemp inter- 

 spersed is protected from Aphis 

 lanigera, v. Aphidse. 



Crab-spiders, Mygale, sp., v. Aran- 



eidse. 



Crane-fly, Tipula, sp., q.v. 

 Crops, protection of, by cleanly cul- 

 tivation, rotation, insectivorous 

 insects, birds, and mammals ; by 

 rearing plants with protecting 

 qualities, use of fires, traps, nets, 

 water, v. p. 16. 



