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General Index. 



339 



pithecium, Phobetron, 183-192, 306. 



Phobetrum, 184. 

 plagiator, Ephedrus, 253. 

 Plant-bug eggs on strawberries, 319. 

 Plant-bugs, 170. 

 Plant-lice, how to kill, 302. 



on elms, 319. 



on melons, 306. 



on peach-tree roots, 315. 

 Plaster for insect attack, 301, 305. 

 Platyphyllum concavum, 323. 

 Plowing and harrowing for insect %|ttack, 

 319. 



Plowing under for insect attack, 156, 206, 

 312. 



Plowrightia morbosa, 280, 320. 

 Plum curculio, 280, 300, 325. 

 Plusia mortuorum, 285. 

 poaphagus, Limothrips, 153. 

 Podisus modestus, 170. 

 Poecilocapsus lineatus, 273. 

 Poisoned bait for insects, 206. 

 Polys toechotes punctatus, 286. 

 pomicorticis, Mytilaspis, 319. 

 pomifoliella, Bucculatrix, 260, 317. 

 pomonella, Carpocapsa, 316. 



Trypeta, 300. 

 pomorum, Mytilaspis, 319. 

 Pomroy, Norman, insects from, 325. 

 Poplar-feeding cut-worm, 210. 

 Poplar saw-fly, 171. 

 Potash for insect attack, 163, 299. 

 Potato-beetle, 320. 

 Potato-bug parasite, 318. 

 Potato-worm, 309. 



Powell, Geo. T., insects from, 207, 325. 



Praon avenaphis, 253. 



pratensis, Lygus, 275. 



Preventive of Anisopteryx vernata, 259. 



Anomala lucicola, 305. 



apple-tree borer, 163. 



apple-tree tent caterpillar, 304. 



ash-gray blister-beetle, 305. 



bacon-beetle, 313. 



beet-leaf miner, 322. 



cabbage-fly, 157, 158, 159. 



canker-worm, 259. 



cherry-aphis, 256. 



cow-horn fly, 226, 227. 



cucumber-beetle. 159. 



cut-worms, 157, 159. 



Dermestes lardarius, 313. 



grape-leaf galls, 304. 



Isosoma hordei, 315. 



joint- worm fly, 315. 



larder beetle, 313. 



onion-maggot, 157, 159, 319. 



peach-tree borer, 163. 



radish maggot, 157, 159. 



rose-aphis, 162. 



round-headed apple-tree borer, 270, 

 squash-vine borer, 313. 



Preventive of striped flea-beetle, 301. 



white grub, 317. 



woolly-aphis, 160. 

 Preventives of insect attack: 



ashes. 301. 



beans for cucumber-beetle, 159. 

 bisulphide of carbon, 313. 

 buckwheat crop for white grub, 317. 

 burdock Infusion, 158. 

 burning, 304, 322. 

 coal-tar, 155, 301. 

 counterodorants, 313, 319, 322. 

 cow-dung, 159. 



destroying caterpillar nests, 304. 



destroying eggs, 304. 



fish-oil, 226. 



gas-lime, 158, 160. 



guano, 158. 



hellebore, 159. 



kerosene, 226. 



lime, 301, 305. 



mustard crop for white grub, 317. 



night-soil, 159. 



netting, 313. 



oyster-shell lime, 158. 



pig-manure, 301. 



pig-sty drainage, 301. 



plaster. 301, 305. 



printers'-ink bands, 239. 



road dust, 305, 320. 



rotation of crops, 315, 319. 



salt, 317. 



saltpetre, 157. 



sheep dip, 226. 



snuff, 301. 



soap-wash, 270. 



soluble phenyle, 226. 



SOOt, 159, 301. 



sulphur, 301. 



tallow and carbolic acid, 226. 

 tansy decoction, 159. 

 tar, 220, 226. 

 tarred bands, 259. 

 tar-water, 301. 

 Printers'-ink bands for insect attack, 

 259. 



Prionotus cristatus, 316. 



Priophora serrata, 220, 223. 



Probing for apple-tree borer, 320. 



Promethea, Callosamia, 324. 



Proteus, Clastoptera, 245. 



Provancher [l'Abbel, cited, 164, 232, 242, 253. 



on the larch, 172. 

 Prunus Americana, 281, 320. 



cerasus, 281, 320. 



domestica, 281, 320. 



maratima, 281. 



Pennsylvanica. 281, 320. 



serotina, 281, 320. 



Yirginiana, 281, 320. 

 pseudargiolus, Lyccena, 285. 

 Psocidse, 323. 



