INDEX 



449 



Porthetria dispar, 288 

 Power-spraying, outfit for, *56 

 Prairie dogs, 432 



control of, 432 

 losses from, 4 

 Preserving bottle, 31 



insects, 25 



Prionoxystes robinice, 279 

 Pristophora gossularice, 148 

 Proctotrypidce, 367 

 Pro-legs, 22 

 Prop-legs, 22 

 Protection of birds, 8 

 Prothorax, 13 

 Pruning, 6 

 Pseudococcus, 174 

 Psila rosce, 247 

 Psoroptes communis, 330 

 Psylla pyricola, 108 

 Psylliodes punctulata, 249 

 Pteronus ribesii, 146 

 Ptinusfur, 299 

 Pulex irritans, 308 

 Pulvillus, 13 



Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 287 

 Punch, *31 

 "Punkie," 312, *312 

 Pupa, 14 

 Puparia of Hessian fly in wheat stems, 



*186 



Puparium, 22 

 Purblind sphinx, 132 

 Purple finch, 388 



grackle, 393 



martin, 403 



scale, 174, *176 

 Putnam scale, 74, 123 

 Pyralis farinalis, 349 

 Pyramidal grape-vine caterpillar, 1C>9 

 Pyrethrum, 46 



Q 



Quail, *401 



Virginia, 402 



Quaternary parasites, 369 

 Quince curculio, 112 



insects, 108 



R 



Rabbit, cotton-tail, *414 



guards, 416 

 Rabbits, 9 



enemies of, 414 



fencing against, 417 



injurious work of, 414 



nest of young, *415 

 29 



Rabbits, poisoning, 415 



repellent washes against, 416 



trapping, 417 

 Raccoon, 435 



Radishes, insects affecting, 245 

 Raptores, 373 

 Raspberry byturus, *145 



cane-borer, 139 



fruit-worm, 144 



geometer, 145 



insects attacking, 138 



supplementary list of, 145 



leaf-roller, 145 



root-borer, 138, *139 



saw-fly, 143 

 Rat, brown, 428 



Norway, 428 

 Rats, 428 



control of, 429 



extermination of, 429 

 Rearing larva;, 33 

 Records, keeping, 38 

 Red ant, *300 



little, 299 

 Red-bird, 388 

 Red-eyed vireo, 386 

 Red fox, 433 



scale, 173, *173 



spider, 143, 151, 215, 221 



work of, *224 

 Red-humped apple-tree caterpillar, 



90, *90 



Red-necked cane-borer, 139, *140 

 Red-shouldered simoxylon, 169 

 Red-tailed bot-fly, 318 

 Red- winged black-bird, 391 

 Relaxing dried specimens, 36 



insects, *35 

 Reproduction, agamic, 14 



in insects, 14 

 Resistant plants, 8 



stock, 8 



Resplendent shield-bearer, 106 

 Rhagoletis pomonella, 105 

 Rhubarb curculio, 248 



flea-beetle, 249 



insects, 248 

 Ribbed scale, 174 

 Rice grub, 217 



insects, 215 



root-maggot, 215 



stalk borer, 217 



water weevil, 215, *216 



weevil, 347, *348 

 Road dust, 47 

 Robin, 374 



