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INDEX. 



Potato-sphinx, 256. 

 Poultry-lice, 71. 

 Powder bellows, 455. 

 Praying Mantis, habits of, 84. 

 Predaceous bugs, 152. 



insects, chapter on, 418. 

 Preventives, chapter on, 418, 430, 

 Printers-ink bands, 433. 

 Prionidus cristatus, 152. 

 Prionoxystus robini^, 287. 

 Prionus laticollis, 206. 

 Proctotrypidae, 387. 

 Prolegs, defined, 12, 

 Prominents, 275. 

 Prothorax, 23. 

 Protoparce Carolina, 256. 



celeus, 256. 

 Psenocorus supernotatus, 208. 

 Pseudo-neuroptera, defined, 53, 54, 58. 

 Pseudo-trachea of fly, 20. 

 Psocidae, described, 68. 

 Psocus lineatus, 69. 

 Psychidae, 273. 

 Psychomorpha epimenis, 264. 

 Psylla pyricola, 137. 

 Psyllid^, defined, 137. 

 Pteromalus puparum, 385. 

 Pterophoridae, 318. 

 Ptinidae, 193. 

 Pubescent antennas, 22. 

 Pulvilli, defined, 26. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabilis, 110. 

 Pumps, for spraying, 456, 462. 

 Punkies, 334. 

 Pupa, defined, 49- 

 Pupipara, 369. 

 Pyralididae, 310. 

 Pyralis farinalis, 312. 

 Pyrausta species, 311. 

 Pyraustidae, 310. 



Pyrethro-kerosene emulsion, 443. 

 Pyrethrum and its uses, 442. 

 Pyrophila pyramidoides, 299. 

 Pyrrharctia Isabella, 266. 



Quassia as an insecticide, 453. 

 Queen bees, 415. 

 Quince-borer, 209. 

 -curculio, 234. 



Radish-maggot, 362. 

 Raphidia, 72. 

 Raptoria, defined, 81. 

 Raspberry, Byturus, 180. 



-slug, 374. 

 Rat-tailed larvae, 350. 



how they breathe, 37. 

 Raupenleim and dendrolene, 431. 

 Receptaculum seminis, 46. 

 Rectum, described, 30. 

 Red-bug on cotton, 157. 



-humped prominent, 277. 



-legged locust, 90. 



-necked cane-borer, 186. 

 Reduviidae, defined, 151. 

 Reflowing cranberry bogs, 428. 

 Regal walnut-moth, 278. 

 Reniform spot, 289. 

 Reproduction among insects, 45. 

 Resin washes, use and formulas, 447. 

 Respiration in insects, 33. 



in dragon-fly larvae, 51. 



in water-beetles, 36. 



economic bearing of, 33, 38. 

 Retina, described, 41. 

 Rhipiceridae, 182. 

 Rhizobiinae, described, 127. 

 Rhizobius, 174. 

 Rhopalocera, defined, 241. 

 Rhopobota vacciniana, 320. 

 Rhubarb, weevil on, 230. 

 Rhynchophora, 165, 228. 

 Rhynchophorus palmarum, 236. 

 Roaches, life history, 81. 

 Robber-flies, 344. 

 Rocky Mountain locust, 90. 

 Root-lice, remedies for, 130. 



-maggots, 360. 



web-worms, 317. 

 Rose-beetle, Fuller's, 228. 



-bug, 199. 



-chafer, 199. 



leaf-hopper, 148. 



leaf-rollers, 321. 



-scale, 119. 



-slug, 374. 

 Rosy Dryocampa, 279. 

 Rostrum, defined, 17. 

 Rotation, use of, 426, 



