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General Index. 



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Ptyelus lineatus, 245. 

 pulicaria, Corimelaena, 319. 



Sciara, 266. 

 pulsatoria, Clothilla, 323. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 326. 

 punctata, Pelidnota, 229, 310, 312, 325. 

 punctatus, Phytonomus, 272. 



Polystoechotes, 286. 

 Punctured clover-leaf weevil, 312. 

 Purchasi, Icerya, 326. 

 Pyrameis Atalanta, 285. 

 Pyrethrum for insect attack, 209, 301, 805, 

 321. 



pyri, Sciara, 265. 



a. 



quadrangularis, Aphrophora, 245. 

 quadrinota, Aphrophora, 245. 

 quadripes, Phytoptus, 303, 326. 

 Quassia for insect attack, 288, 807, 322. 

 querceti, Euclea, 186. 

 Quince curculio, 316. 

 quinquelineata, Sciara, 265. 

 quinquemaculata, Macrosila, 179. 

 Sphinx, 309. 



R. 



Railroad train stopped by caterpillars, 196. 

 rapae, Pieris, 285, 300. 

 Raspberry-cane girdler, 231-233. 



bibliography, 231, 232. 



cane-girdling, 233. 



description of beetle, 232. 



figure of beetle, 232. 



food-plants, 233. 



life-history, 233. 



remedy, 233. 



synonymy, 231, 232. 

 Rathvon [S. S.], cited, 234. 

 Ratzeburg, cited, 164, 165. 

 Reddy, E. J., insects from, 324. 

 Red-humped apple-tree caterpillar, 309. 

 Red spider, 287, 321. 

 Reduviidae, 316. 

 Reduvius personatus, 316. 

 Reed [E. B.], cited, 216. 219. 

 regalis, Citheronia, 324. 

 Regal walnut-moth, 324. 

 Remedies for insect attack: 



Ammoniacal liquors, 158. 



Arsenites, 231, 239, 314, 320, 321, 322. 



Ashes and sulphur, 315. 



Autumn plowing, 313. 



Beating from foliage, 231. 



Benzine, 314. 



Bisulphide of carbon, 266, 300, 315. 

 Boxing for elm-leaf beetle, 314. 

 Brine, 156. 



Buckwheat crop, 310. 

 Burdock infusion, 158. 

 Burning, 154, 303(2), 308, 310, 314, 315, 317, 

 318. 



Remedies for insect attack — ( Continued) : 

 Camphor, 300. 

 Carbolic acid, 293, 314. 

 Chickens, 301. 

 Creosote, 314. 



Crushing, 206, 209, 215, 219, 307, 309, 320, 

 Cyanide of potassium, 314. 

 Digging-OUt, 156, 271, 312, 313, 319, 320, 

 Driving on tarred paper, 302. 

 Feeding stock, 219. 

 Fungus, 273. 



Ga»-lime, 158, 253, 313, 319. 

 Gas-tar, 163, 299, 314. 

 Guano, 313. 



Hand-picking, 179, 183, 209, 233, 300, 321. 



Heavy oil, 300. 



Hellebore, 323. 



Hot water, 183, 231, 287, 315. 



Kerosene, 160, 300, 303, 321. 



Kerosene emulsion, 161, 256, 262, 263, 279, 



288, 301, 302, 313, 314, 317, 319, 321, 322. 

 Late planting, 300. 

 Lime, 157, 158, 160, 163, 227, 299. 

 Lime-wash, 163. 

 Lime-water, 307. 



London purple, 162, 200, 219, 240, 301, 304, 



312, 313, 322. 

 Lye, 163, 299, 320. 

 Mustard crop, 310. 

 Nitrate of potash, 157. 

 Paris green, 155, 162, 262, 301, 305, 317, 319, 



320, 321. 



Plowing and harrowing, 319. 

 Plowing under, 156, 206, 312. 

 Poisoned baits, 206. 

 Potash, 163, 299. 



Probing for apple-tree borer, 320. 



Pyrethrum powder, 209, 301, 321. 



Pyrethrum spraying, 305. 



Quassia, 288, 307, 322. 



Rolling, 206, 264, 312. 



Salt, 253, 316. 



Saltpetre, 157, 313. 



Scraping (bark-lice), 319. 



Shaking from foliage, 172, 183, 262, 314, 



317, 320, 321. 

 Soap and carbolic acid wash, 301. 

 Soap and sulphur, 288, 322. 

 Soap-suds, 161, 256, 275, 287, 302. 

 Soap wash, 160, 270, 279, 317, 320. 



Soft, soap, 163. 

 Soluble phenyle, 315. 

 Soot, 253, 307. 



Spraying, 161, 172, 200, 219, 239, 240,256, 259, 



301, 302, 305, 319. 

 Starvation. 310, 316. 

 Sulphur fumigation, 314. 

 Tansy decoction, 159. 

 Tarred bands, 313, 318. 

 Toads, 301. 

 Tobacco, 160, 161. 

 Tobacco water, 256, 301, 302, 303. 



