GENERAL INDEX. 



cclxxxi 



Laiupronota frigida, 118. 



*' imitatrix, 121. 



•' interpellata, 118. 



" njofrita, 122. 



" pictiventris. 119. 



'• nibricra, 122. 



'* scutellaris, IIG. 



te^ularis, 116. 

 Lanipyris noctiluca. 5(i3. [»44. 



Larval characters of Blister-beetles. 

 Lead and Zinc deposit* in Mo., 246. 

 Lepidobalanus. 381, 388. 

 Lepidosteus ferox, 17S. 

 Leptobatus illinoisensis, 148. 

 Leucania unipuncta, ^11. 



•' albilinea. :2l[t. 

 Leucobalanus. 381, 388, 

 Light in vacuo. 7'>. 

 Lightning, effects of, 4o, I40. 

 Ligurian race, 3. 

 Lignite from Peru, 223. 

 Limenitis disippus, 44. 



•' Misippus, 204. 

 Littaea, 296. 



Locusts, ravages in 1875. 345. 



Locust flights E. of the Mississippi, 



" ravages, liu. j.^tj. \22<j. 



'•' *' experience in 1877, ^iS;. 



Lunar Tables, result of researches 



in, 509, 524. 

 Lygus robiniaj. 59. 



Macrobasis unicolor, 550, 562. 

 " cinerea, 551. 



" debilis, 551. 

 " Fabrieii, 551. 



" raurina, 551. 



Maguey, 294. 



Mastodon angustidens, 102. 

 Megathymus yuccae, 323, 566. 



" " var. Coloraden- 



sis. 568. 

 " Afflnities, 534. 



Biological, 325, 344. 

 " Bibliographical, 329. 

 " Descriptive, 331. 

 Enemies, 339. 

 Megetra, 565. 

 Melanobalanus, 381, 388. 

 Meloe, 565. 



History of, 546. 

 •' angusticollis, 547, 212. 

 '• barbarus, 547. 

 " cicatricosus, 547. 

 " proscarabaeus, 547. 

 Meloidae — Remarkable new genus 



in, 563. 

 Meloini — Table of genera of, 565. 

 Memory — Measurement of strength 

 Menobfanchus, SO. [of, 210. 



•' lateralis, 115. 



Mentone cave— Fossil man of, 9G. 

 Meteorological Reports, 1861-70, 35. 

 " Summer of 1871, o-r^. 



" Winter of 1871-2, 78. 



" " " 1872-3, 103. 



" u 4. 1873-4. 132. 



'• " " 1874-5, 173. 



" •' " 1875-6, 203. 



" spring of 1877, 263. 

 " summer " " 265. 

 " Notes, f, 4-S, 10, 15. T7, 



22, 24, 34, 46. 4S, 60, 78, 90, 99, 

 103, 106-7, 132, 153, 164, 166, 

 173, 218, 258-9, 263. 267. 

 Meteorology of 1875. 196. 

 " Mississippi, high water in, 144. 

 " " freezing of, at St. 



Louis, 54. 

 " Relative humidity. 1861-70, 35, 

 " Spring, opening of, 46. 

 " Temperature, at St. Louis, 1861 



-1870. 5.5. 

 " " of Philadelphia, St. Louis 



and Canon City, 153. 

 " Tornado of March 30. 1871, 79. 

 " Hailstorm ot May 19, 1S73, 107. 

 " Meteor of Jan. 3. 1877. 258. 

 '• ^' Dec. 27, 1875, 349. 

 " Missouri V^'eather Service, 266, 

 Metopius pollinctorius, 91. 

 Mexican jumping-seed, 190, 217. 

 Mezcal, 294. 



Migratory butterflies, 268. 

 Mildew on grape-vines, 215. 

 Mimicry in butterflies, 44- 

 Mineralogy of Cole Co., Mo., 33. 

 Mississippi River — Delta of, 114- 



" '• frozen, 54. 



Missouri — Fossil horse in. 2o. 

 Mite parasites of Doryphora, 219. 

 Mites — Description of two new sub- 

 terranean, 215. 

 Mite transformations, 266. 

 Moon's Motions, theory of, 401. 

 *' " corrections of present the- 

 ory of, 426. 

 " " objections of present theo- 

 ry of secular accelerations 

 of. 510. 

 " '• table of corrections of, 429, 

 Mound burials, 1U8. 

 Mounds in Mississippi. 226. 

 '• '• Missouri. 86. 

 " relics in, 133. 

 " in ,-aline Co., Mo., 86. 

 '• near Louisiana, Mo., 267. 

 Muscular action, 234. 

 My gale Hentzii, 269. 

 Mylabris. 558. 



Myrmecocytus mexicanus, 109. 

 Myrmica minuta, 102. 



