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Note 48 [113] 
Proportions of Paris green mixture, [113]. 
Note 49 [113] 
Effect of kerosene and kerosene emulsion on cotton plants, [113]. 
Note 50 [113] 
Pyrethrum icillemoti probably a synonym of P. roseum, [113] — reference to 
Willeniot's paper on P. willemoti, [113]. 
Note 51 .* [H3J 
Growth of productive pyrethrum industry in California, [113] — effect of 
pyrethrum on warm-blooded animals, [113] — pyrethrum recommended 
as a disinfectant and germicide, [113]. 
Note 52 [113] 
Cost of production compared with price of pyrethrum, [113]. 
Note 53 [113] 
Enemies of Aletia xylina killed by poisoning the worms, [113]. 
Note 54 [113] 
Positiveness with which various plants have been recommended as insecti- 
cides, [113]. 
Note 55 [114] 
Insects injuring dog fennel, [114]. 
Note 56 [114] 
Tests of spraying machinery, by Dr. W. S. Barnard, [114] — difficulties in 
the use of machinery in irregularly-planted fields, [114] — means of over- 
coming these difficulties, [114] — conveyances for underspraying apparatus, 
[115] — management of apparatus, [115] — rapidity of service, [115] — 
quantity of poison required, [115]— success of stirrer-pump device, [115] — 
construction of stirrer-pump, [115] — construction of nozzle-pipes, [116] — 
adjustment of these pipes, [116] — success of eddy-chamber nozzles, 
[116] — a closed system of pipes advisable, [116] — high pressure should 
always be used, [117] — adjustment of descending pipes, [117] — flexile 
joints recommended, [117] — advantages of flexile pipes, [117] — lifting of 
descending pipes in turning, [118] — devices for lateral shifting of pipes, 
[118] — summary of conclusions from experiments, [118]. 
Note 57 [119] 
Recommendation to use Paris green in 1872, [119] — extract from report 
made on this subject by J. P. Stelle, in 1880, [119] — comment on the 
same, [120]. 
Note 58 [120] 
Description of imago of Jnomis texana, n. sp., [120]. 
Note 59 [120] 
Description of egg and pupa of Drasteria erechtea, [120]. 
Note 60 [121] 
Reprint of J. W. Boddie's description, in 1850, of imago of Phalaena zea 
(Heliothis armigera), [121]. 
Note 61 [121] 
Reprint of A. R. Grote's description of Helioihis umbrosus, [121]. 
Note 62 [121] 
Remarks on specimens sent from Bahia, by R. A. Edes, in 1880, [121] — 
characters of egg, larva, and pupa of Jnomis sp., [121] — insects found in 
cotton bolls, [121]. 
Note 63 1 121] 
Probably Macrosila rustica stated to feed on cotton, [121]. 
Note 64 [121] 
Larva) of Aletia xylina received from Vera Cruz, [ 121]— recurrence of cotton 
worms at irregular periods, [122]. 
