Index 



robber-flies, 141, 142 



larvae of, 142 

 Rocky Mountain Locust, 138 

 rose chafer, 74 

 rose slug, 74 

 Rothney, 20 



" Royal Dream Book, The," 39 

 Rutilia, 162 



Saldidse, 272, 291 

 salt-water flies, 182 

 Saltatoria, 323 

 sand flies, 120 

 Sapromyzidae, 91, 175 

 Sapygidae, 31, 33 

 Sarcophaga, 164 

 Sarcophaga carnaria, 164 



sarraceniae, 164 

 Sarcophagidae, 90, 163 

 Sarcophila, 163 

 Sarcopsylla gallinacea, 193 



penetrans, 193 

 saw-flies, 73 

 saw-fly, American, 75 



larch, 74 

 scale insects, 226, 228, 250 

 Scatophagidae, 91, 173 

 Scatopse, 119 



pulicaria, 119 

 Sceliphron, 22 

 Scenopinidae, 88, 139 

 Scenopinus fenestralis Linn., 139 

 Schistocerca americana, 333 

 Schmidt, 279 

 Schmidt-Schvvedt, 274 

 Schwarz, E. A., 22, 32, 58, 59, 60, 292, 



293, 359 

 Sciara fraterna, 118 



tritici Coq., 118 

 Sciaras, 118 

 Sciomyzidse, 91, 174 

 Sciophila, 117 

 Scolia, 31 

 Scoliidae, 33 

 Scolopendrella, 380 

 scorpion flies, 95, 206 

 scorpion fly, life history of, 207 

 Scotridae, 31 

 screw-worm fly, 163 

 Scudder, S. H., 61, 337, 340, 343, 344 

 Scudderia angustifolia, 337 

 Scutellerinse, 313 



Selys-Longchamps, Baron de, 368 

 Sepsidoe, 91, 92, 179 

 Sericostomatidae, 197, 202 

 Setodes exquisita Walk., 203 

 Seurat, L., 50 

 seventeen-year locust, life history of 



the, 233 

 Severin, 289 



shad-flies, 377 



Sharp, D., 20, 226, 330, 347 



shears, collecting, 394 



sheep tick, 188 



Shizoneura lanigera, 265 



shore bugs, the, 291 



short-horned grasshopper, 333 



short-horned grasshoppers, the, 332 



Sialidae, 210, 211 



Sialis, 21T 



infumata, 211 

 Sienkiewicz, H., 355 

 sieve, the, 391 

 Silvanus surinamensis, 140 

 silver fish, 382 

 Simmons, W. J., 192 

 Simon, 192 

 Simuliidas, 86, 120 

 Simulium, 120, 400 



pictipes, 121 

 Siphonaptera, 191 

 Siricidae, 69 

 Siricoidea, 3, 69 

 Sisyra, 221 

 Slater, Miss, 279 

 slickers, 380, 382 

 Slingerland, M. V., 303, 327 

 small-headed flies, 134 

 Smeathman, 355 

 Smicra microgaster, 129 



rufofemorata, 129 

 Smith, S. I., no 

 Smynthuridae, 385, 388 

 Smynthurus luteus, 388 

 snake doctors, 363 

 snake feeders, 363 

 snake flies, the, 216 

 snipe flies, 126 

 snowy tree-cricket, 343 

 social wasps and their allies, 25 

 soldier bugs, 68 



flies, 128 

 solitary ants, 32 



wasps, 18, 30 

 some points on methods of collecting 



different orders, 394 

 sooth-sayers, 327 

 spear-winged flies, 146 

 Sphecius speciosus Say, 22 

 Sphecoidea, Super-family, 3, 18, 30 

 sphegid wasp, 22 

 spined soldier bug, 314 

 spittle insects, 241 

 springtails, 380 

 squash bug and its allies, the, 304 



life history of, 305 



parasites of, 306 

 stable-fly, 166 

 Stagmomantis Carolina, 327 

 Stein, 216 



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