INDEX. 



225 



Mealy-bugs, Habits, 63. 

 Metapodius femoratus, 162, 192. 

 terminalis, 163, 192. 

 Mexican Fruit "Worm, 169. 

 Microcentrum retinerve, 134. 

 Microgaster parasite of the Bag- worm, 147. 

 Midas clavatus, 175. 

 Miotropis platynotse, 153, 217. 

 Mites preying upon Scale-insects, 69,81. 

 Glover's, 82. 

 Habits, 82. 



Hairy Orange, 83, 218. 

 Importance, 81. 

 Orbicular, 85. 

 Rhizoglyphus, 84. 

 Spear-bead, 83, 216. 

 Spotted, 84, 216. 

 Undetermined, 84,216. 

 Monomorium carbonarium, 132. 

 Mytilaspis citricola, 26, 39, 42, 75. 



gloverii, 14, 19, 42, 75, 77, 86. 

 pomorum, 15. 



Naked Scales (see Lecaninae). 

 Naphthaline for ants, 130. 

 Neuroptera preying upon Scale-insects, 80. 

 Northern Bag- worm, 147. 

 Nothris citrifoliella, 154. 

 Nothrus ovivorus, 85. 

 Notolomus basalis, 133. 

 Odontota rubra, 133. 

 Oiketicus abbotii, 144. 



Oil of creosote as a remedy for Scale-Insects, 07. 

 Table of experiments with, 206. 

 Oncideres cingulatus, 128. 

 Opbideres fullonica, 170. 

 Orange Apbis, 157. 



Birth of the young, 138. 



Descriptive, 157. 



Enemies, 180. 



Influence of climate on development 



158. 



Injuries, 159. 

 Natural history, 157. 

 Parasite, 158. 

 Remedy, 159. 

 Basket-worm, 148. 



preying upon Scale-insects, 69. 

 Case-bearing Tineid, 193. 

 Chionaspis, 40. 



Abundant in Louisiana, 40. 

 Scale of female, 40. 



male, 40. 

 Dog, 5, 137. 



Descriptive, 137. 

 Food-plants, 138. 

 Life-history, 138. 

 Parasites, 139. 

 Protective resemblance, 5, 

 Remedies, 139. 

 Orange-eating Tineid, 179. 



Flat-headed Borer, 171. 

 Leaf-notcher, 133. 

 Orange leaf Nothris, 154. 

 Mites, 81. 

 Psocus, 194. 

 Sawyer, 171. 



Orange Thrips, 164. 



Beneficial rather than injurious 



165. 



Injury done to the blossoms, 165. 

 Remedies, 165. 



tree, enfeebled condition of, fosters Scale- 

 insects, 45. 



How affected by Scale-insects, 45. 

 Organic diseases, L 

 Systems of cultivation, a 

 "Web worm, 155. 



Descriptive, 156. 



Earlier states, 156. 



Number of broods, 157. 



Other insects associated with it, 



155, 156. 



Protective resemblance, 155. 

 Remedies, 157. 

 The web, 155. 



Organic diseases of the Orange, L 

 Bark-fungus, 1. 

 Die-back, 1. 

 Dropping of fruit, 5. 

 Foot-rot, 3. 

 Smut, 3. 



Splitting of fruit, 4. 

 Oyster-shell Bark-louse, 15, 85. 



Mode of growth, 15. 

 Pachnaeus opalus, 133. 

 Pachyneuron altiscuta, 218. 

 an thorny iae, 218. 

 aphidis, 218. 

 Pale Dakruma, 77. 



Palmetto brushes for scrubbing the trees, 90. 

 Papilio cresphontes, 137. 

 Parasites, General importance of, 7. 

 Parlatoria pergandii, 2, 37, 42, 75, 86. 

 Penthatodes mytilospidis, 216. 

 Pergande, Th., Notes on Orange Mites, 84. 

 Perilitns, 81, 215. 

 Phobetrum pithecium, 140, 142. 

 Cocoon, 143. 

 Larva, 142. 

 Moth, 143. 



Pixnpla conquisitor, 147. 

 inquisitor, 147. 



Plataceticus gloverii, 69, 148. 

 Platynota rostrana, 152, 154, 217. 

 Polistes americauus, 186. 

 Habits, 186. 

 Nest, 186. 



Poly sp bin eta albipes, 153. 

 Pomace-fly of the Orange, 176. 



9 Life-history, 177. 



Potash as a remedy for Rust-mite, 110. 



Scale-insects, 96. 

 Predatory insects, 180. 



Lepidoptera, 76. 

 Wasps, 186. 



Prionotus cristatus, 192. 

 Pruinose Aphis-fly, 185. 

 Imago, 185. 

 Larva, 185. 

 Parasite, 186, 218. 

 Puparium, 185. 

 Psocus citricola, 194. 



