General Index. 



349 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of Washington cited, 224, 265. 

 Natural Science Association of Staten 



Island cited, 258, 293. 

 United States National Museum cited, 



U7, 271, 27i. 

 Western New York Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 3li. 

 Progne, Grapta, 257. 

 proliflca, Chloropisca, 187-192, 327. 

 propinqualis, Rivula, 326. 

 Provancher [I'abbe] on Coleoptera, 204, 207. 



description of X. colonus, 213. 

 prunus, Amphibolips, 162. 



Cynips q., 163. 

 Pseudoneuroptera, 287. 



Psyche, 172, 286(2), 298. 



Pteromalinse, 147, 136. 



Ptinidas, 142, 208. 



Ptinus brunneus, 210, 212. 

 fur, a museum pest, 213. 

 auadrimaculatus, a museum pest, 213. 



Ptyelus lineatus, 240-1. 

 species, 240. 



Publications by the [N. Y. St.] Entomolo- 

 gist, 313-324. 



Publications in 1885-86 on the several Or- 

 ders of insects, 292-296. 



pulchraria, Cleora, 140. 



punctatus, Phytonomus, 298. 



pungens, Reduvius, 229, 231. 



Purchasi, Icerya, 307. 



pygmsea, Chloe, 243. 



PyralidBB, 134. 



Pyralidse, Description of New Species of 

 (Hulst), 293. 



Pyrameis Atalanta, 257. 



pyramidoides, Amphipyra, 258. 



Pyrethrum insecticide, 188, 221, 254, 288, 

 311. 



pyri, Xyleborus, 323. 



pyrus-malus, Coccus, 234. 



a. 



q. glandulus, Cynips, 164. 



q. operator, Cynips, 325. 



q. prunus, Cynips, 325. 



quadrangularis, Aphrophora, 241. 



quadrigibbus, Anthonomus, 321. 



quadrimaculatus, Ptinus, 213. 



Quassia and soap wash, 318, 319. 



Quay, J., on oviposition of Thalessa, 155, 



159. . 

 Quebecensis, Thalessa, 161. 

 Quince curcillio, 135, 207. 

 quinquemaculata, Sphinx, 325. 



R. 



Rabbit moth, Lagoa opercularis, 171-174. 

 a southern insect, 173, 

 bibliography, 171. 

 caterpillar described, 173. 



Rabbit moth, cocoon of, 174. 



distribution of, 173. 



iigures of, 171, 172. 



moth described, 172. 



poison of sting, 172. 

 Race-horse (Mantis), 280. 

 Raflnesque, in Annals of Nature, cited, 



248. 

 Ramsden, E., insects from, 328. 

 rapsB, Pieris, 256, 298(2). 

 Raphitelus ?maculatus, 225. 

 Rasahus biguttatus, 232. 

 Raspberry-cane borer, 327. 

 Raspberry-cane girdler, 309. 

 Raspberry-stem girdler, 167. 

 Ratzeburg in Forstinsecten cited, 223. 

 Rear-horse (Mantis), 280. 

 Red ant, 253. 



Red-footed flea-beetle, 221. 

 Red-headed Systena, 276. 

 Red-humped apple-tree caterpillar, 324. 

 Red-scale, 308. 

 Red-spider, 323. 

 Reduviidas, 229-234. 

 Reduvius personatus, 232, 253. 



pungens, 229, 231. 

 Reed [E. B.], cited, 183, 200. 

 Regents of the University, State of New 



York, 238. 

 rolictus, Ligyrus, 324. 

 religiosa, Mantis, 282. 

 Remedies for insect attack: 



arsenites, 221, 288, 310, 324. 



attracting to lights, 310. 



beating from foliage, 310, 318, 319, 320. 



benzine, 209. 



bisulphide of carbon, 210, 288. 



buckwheat flour, 311. 



burning, 153, 197, 227, 238, 310, 313, 315, 

 323(2). 324. 



burning rubbish, 320. 



carbolic acid, 3li. 



carbolic acid and soap wash, 239, 315. 



coal-tar, 311. 



feeding by sheep, 132. 



gas-tarred paper, 319. 



hand-picking, 179, 185, 196, 310, 313, 314. 



heat, 210. 



hellebore, 311, 314. 



ice-water, 3il. 



ja'rring on sheets, 321, 



kerosene, 188, 212, 310, 311, 318(2), 320. 



kerosene emulsion, 238, 288, 311, 315, 318, 

 319. 



linseed oil, 239, 315. 



London purple, 134, 311, 319, 321. 



lures for concentrating attack, 319. 



mercurial ointment, 319. 



molasses and vinegar, 196. 



odor of fermentation, 196. 



Paris green, 223, 311, 319, 321. 



plowing, 154. 



poultry feeding, 323. 



