VII 



Kemedies and ■pvevet\ti\e=—Co.'tfinuf'7. 

 gas-lime, 41,56. 



water, 41. 

 guano, 60. 

 hand-picking, 61. 

 kerosene, 39. 



emulsion, 37,40, 55. 



mixed- with fertilizers, 39. 

 with sand, 62. 

 land plaster, 60. 

 light-traps, XI. 

 lime, 61. 



water, 41,56. 

 lobelia water, 40,56. 

 London purple, 4'-i,56,72. 

 Paris green, 42,56,72. 

 plowing under, 45.62. 

 poisons, arsenical, X,42, 76. 

 quicklime, 60. 



sowing timothy with wheat, 52. 

 spraying trees, X. 

 starvation, 4-1, 56. 

 steam, 42,43,56. 

 tobacco water, 39, 56. 

 trampling by sheep or pigs, 83. 

 turpentine emulsion, 41,56. 

 renigera, Mamestra, 95. 



Keports of the Entomologist to the U. i>. De- 

 partment of Agriculture cited, 62,70,75,78. 

 2sew York Agricultural Society cited, 61. 

 State Entomologist of Illinois cited, 1,32, 

 37,45,61,78. 

 of Missouri cited, 32, 61,78. 

 of New York cited, 32,59, 62, 70,75,78. 

 U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture cited, 1, 

 p0,59, 60, 61,62, 65, 75,78. 

 of Patents cited, 59. 

 Rhinoncus pyrrhopus, food of, 77. 

 Rhodobaenus, 59. 

 Rhynchites bicolor, food of, 75. 



hirtus, food of, 75. 

 Rhynchophora, food of, 75. 



Riley, C. V., Index to the Nine Reports on the 

 Insects of Missouri cited, 62. 

 on Clay-backed Cutworm, 89,90. 

 on larvae of Tipulidae, 78,79. 

 on Sphenophorus parvulus, 63. 

 periinax, 60. 

 robustus, 60. 



description, cited, 65. 

 eculptilis, 61,62. 

 on wheat culture and the Chinch Bug. 32. 

 paper, cited, 59. 



Reports as Entomologist to the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture cited, 62. 

 as State Entomologist of Missouri cited, 

 32,61,78. See also Walsh and Riley. 

 Robb, E. H., on meadow maggots, 83. 

 Eobison, J. W., on Chinch Bug, 7. 

 robastne, Sphenophorus, 58,59, 60, 64, 65,66, 67, 68, 

 69,71. 



Root Louse, Corn, XII. 



Web Worms, injury to lawns and meadows 

 by, IX. 



Rose as food plant of Rhynchites bicolor, 75. 



Rosin weed, 75. 



Rural New Yorker cited, (il. 



Rye, injury to. by Hessian Fly, 54. 



by snout beetles, 58. 



by Sphenophorus parvulus, 63. 



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saucia, Agrotis, 93. 



Say, Thomas, Descriptions of New Species of 



Curculionites of North America cited, 60, 62. 

 sayi, Sphenophorus, 65. 



Schonherr, C. J., Genera et Species Ciirculion- 

 idum cited, 59,63. 



Schwarz, E. A., paper, cited, 59. 



Scirpus fluviatilis as food plant of Sphenopho- 

 rus ochreus, 58, 66,68,69. [See Errata.] 

 lacustris as food plant of Sphenophorus 

 costipennis, 68. 



scoparius, Sphenophorus, 58, 62, 64, 68,70. 



sculptilis, Sphenophorus, 58,61,64,67,68,71,72. 



semifuneralis, Euzophera, IX. 



Setaria as food plant of Epicaerus imbricatus, 

 76. 



of Sphenophorus ochreus, 70. 

 Shelby, W. T., on early occurrence of Chinch 



Bug in Illinois, 50. 

 Shelton, E. M., on plowing Chinch Bug under, 



45. 



Sidway, G. D., on kerosene emuleion for the 

 Chinch Bug, 38. 

 L. B., on kerosene emulsion for the Chinch 

 Bug, 38. 



Silphium integrifolium, as food plant of Rhyn- 

 chites hirtus, 75. 

 Small Grain as food of meadow maggots, 79. 



injury to, by Chinch Bug, 3,4,19-21. 

 Smartweed as food plant of Negro Bug, 51. 

 Smith, John B., 90. 

 Snout beetles, 58. 



frenching of corn by, 62. 



Observations of the Food of the, 75-77. 

 Snow, F. H., paper, cited, 59. 

 Sowing timothy with wheat as measure against 



Chinch Bug, 52. 

 Spanish Needle, 51. 

 Sphaereacei, 77. 

 Sphenophorus, 58, 63,75. 



analysis of literature, 59. 



birds as enemies of, 71,72. 



description of the genus, 63. 



distribution, 67. 



economic bibliography, 72. 



immature stages, 65. 



injuries to vegetation, 69. 

 to Corn, 59. 



key to Illinois species, 63. 



life histories, 67. 



natural enemies. 71. 



remedies, 71. 

 Sphenophorus aequalis, 60. 



antiqua, 61. 



callosus, 60. 



cariosuB, 58, 60,64, 67, 68,71. 



