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INDEX 



Lime with Paris green, 41 

 Lipeurus variabilis, 339 

 Liquid spraying, 47 

 Lissorhoptus simplex, 215 

 Little red ant, 299 

 Lixus concavus, 248 

 Locust, *19 



borer, 275 



dissection of, *12 



tree injured by locust borer, *276 

 Locusts, 18, 20 

 London purple, 42 

 Long-horned prominent, 123, 144 



moth, 145, *163 

 Long scale, 174, *176 

 Loss to agriculture, 1 

 Louse, cabbage, 234 



English grain, 187 



vagabond gall, 271 

 Lubber grasshopper, 184 

 Lucilia cornicina, 335 

 Luna moth, 282 

 Lygaconenatus erichsonii, 285 

 Lygus invitis, 112 



pratensis, 84 

 Lyperosia irriians, 323 



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Macrobasis unicolor, 198 

 Macrodactylus subspinosus, 156 

 Macrosiphum granaria, 187 



pisi, 245 

 Maggot, 22 

 Magnifying glass, 31 

 Maia moth, 106 

 Mailing box, *37 



insects, 37 

 Malacosoma americana, 78 



district, 80 



Mallophaga, 17, 338 

 Man, insects affecting, 291 

 Mandibles, 12 



Mange-mite, control of, 336 

 Mange-mites, *336 

 Maple scale, cottony, 287 



trees infested with cottony maple 



scale, *286 



Margaropus annulatus, 340 

 Marmot, 430 



Maryland yellow-throat, 383 

 Maxillce, 12 



May beetle, 20, 84, *211 

 eggs of, *212 



flies, 15 

 May-fly, *15 

 Mayetiola destructor, 185 



Meadow lark, 389 

 Meal snout moth, 349 

 Mealy bug, *253 



destructive, 252 



with long threads, 253, *253 



bugs, 174 



on orange, *178 



flata, 169 

 Meat-fly, 335 

 Mechanical measures against insects, 



49 



Mecoplera order, 15 

 Mediterranean flour moth, 345 

 Melasoma scripta, 274 

 Meliana albilinea, 190 

 Melon leaves with lice, *239 



louse, 238 



Melons, insects attacking, 237 

 Melophagus orinus, 332 

 Membrane-winged, 20 

 Menopon pallidum, 339 

 Mephitis, 434 

 Meromyza americana, 187 

 Mesothorax, 13 

 Metamorphosis, 11 



incomplete, 18 

 Metathorax, 13 

 Mice See Field mice 

 Mice, 9 



field, 425, *426 



house, 428 



Microcentrum retinervis, 184 

 Microlepidoptera, mounted, *30 

 Microscopic insect mounted, *31 

 Migrants, 14 

 Mill fumigation, 345 



insects, 345 



fumigation of, 353 

 Mineola indigenella, 98 

 Mite causing foot-mange, *337 

 Mites, 11, 312 

 Mniotiltida;, 374 

 Mocking-bird, 378 

 Mole, common, 424, *424 



trap, *425 



trapping, 424 



Monomorium pharaonis, 299 

 Monophadnus, 143 

 Mosquito, 22, *304 



house, 306 



larva, *307 



yellow fever, *305 

 Mosquitoes, 304, 329 



appropriations for, 4 



control of, 307, 330 



life history of, *306 



