GENERAL INDEX. 
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Larch (see Plant index) 
Larder Beetle, 1898, 60-64 (see D'ermestes 
lardarius) 
Large Cabbage White Butterfly (see 
Pieris brassicce) 
Large Tortoise-shell Butterfly (see Va¬ 
nessa polychloros) 
Lark ( Alauda arvensis ), feeding on Wire- 
worms? ( Agriotes spp.), 1882, 56 
? Lasioptera rubi, 1884, 80 
Infesting brambles, 1884, 80; Rasp¬ 
berry twigs, 80 
Laverna atra, 1889, 81-84; 1898, 5, 6, 
9-12 
Infesting Apple twigs, 1889, 82 
Feeding on stems just below Apple 
blossoms, 1898, 9; observations of 
attack, 9, 10 ; description of Moth 
and larva, 10, 11; distinguishing- 
characteristics of infestation, 11 ; 
difference between attack of, and 
Eye-Spotted Bud Moth, 12; cater¬ 
pillars of, in fruit of Hawthorn 
(Cratcegus ), in autumn, 12; preven¬ 
tion and remedies, 12 ; removing 
infested twigs and burning, 12 
Laverna hellerella (see Laverna atra ) 
Lawes’s Turnip Manure, 1877, 9, 10 ; 
1878, 12 
Leafage Caterpillars, 1896, 84-103 
Leaf-blister Maggot, Mangold (see An- 
thomyia beta) 
Leather Beetle (see Dennestes vulpinus ) 
Lecanium coryli (see Lecanium ribis) 
Lecanium ribis , 1893, 39-43; 1898, 38-41 
Original description of, by Dr. Asa 
Fitch, 1893, 39, 40; various kinds 
of Currant infested, 39 ; life-history 
of, 40; description of, 41; preven¬ 
tion and remedies, 42, 43 ; Chiswick 
compound effectual, 42; kerosine 
washes for, 43 
Food-plants of, 1898, 38, 39 ; Rasp¬ 
berry, a new food-plant for, 39 ; 
synonymy of, 39 ; observations on 
habits of, 39-42; prevention and 
remedies for, 42, 43 ; to destroy on 
Raspberry, by early removal of 
“canes,” 42; date of winter prun¬ 
ing important, 43; treatment of 
wall-trained plants, 43; soap washes 
for, 43 
Lectureship endowment, Edinburgh 
University, 1890, v 
Leek (see Plant index) 
Leek or Shallot Fly (see Anthomyia 
platura ) 
Leinweber’s bark wash for Scolytus 
rugulosus, 1897, 46 
Leopard Moth (see Zeuzera cesculi) 
Lepisvia domestica, 1898, 116, 118, 119 
Recently added to British Fauna, 1898, 
118 ; characteristic markings of, 
119 ; habitat of, 119 
Lepisma saccharina, 1898, 116-119 
Distinctions of, from insects, 1898, 
117; description of, 117; noted in 
1665,117 ; infesting flour-bins, 117 ; 
suggestions for trapping, 118 
Letsam-root, Mangolds, 1892, 161 
Lettuce (see Plant index) 
Licked beef (see Hypoderma bovis) 
Limax agrestis, 1883, 79, 80 
General treatment for, 1883, 79 ; to 
destroy with lime, 80 
Lime (see Plant index) 
Lime, 1877, 17 ; 1878, 19, 22; 1879, 34; 
1881, 7, 9, 24, 76, 77 ; 1882, 26, 27, 
32, 64, 65, 79 ; 1883, 77, 80; 1891, 
120; 1892, 155; 1893, 82,83; 1896, 
26, 89, 128 ; 1897, 17 
Lime and lime-water, 1893, 82, 83 
Lime and salt, 1882, 79 
Lime and soot, 1882, 64, 65, 79; 1891, 
120 ; 1892,157 
Limncea , sp., reference to iife-liistory, 
in connection with liver fluke in 
sheep, 1884, 91 
Limncea peregra, host of liver fluke, 1884, 
92 
Limncea truncatula, host of liver fluke in 
sheep, 1884, 92 
Limnephilus Jiavicornis, figure of, to 
illustrate Caddis Flies, 1896, 153 
(see Trichoptera) 
Liparis auriflua, 1879, 37 ; 1880, 34 
Prayers offered for avertion of their 
ravages, 1879, 37 
Liparis ( Ocneria ) monacha, referred to, 
1894, 18 
Lipoptera ( Lipoptena ) cervi, 1896, 60-68; 
1897, 34-39 
Synonymy of, 1896, 61 ; comparison 
with Hippobosca equina, 63; life- 
history and habits of, 64, 65 ; also 
on Roe Deer and Elk, 67, 68 
Synonymy of, 1897, 35, 36; description 
of fly, 36; observations of, in Ross- 
shire, 36, 37; of wings of, 38; of 
puparia, and condition of fly in 
puparium, 38, 39 
List of injurious insects, with food- 
plants, 1894, iv, v, vi; 1895, vi, vii; 
1896, iv, v; 1897, iv, v; 1898, iv, v 
Lithobius forjicatus, mentioned and 
figured, 1886, 54 
Little Grain Moth (see Tinea granella) 
Little’s anti-pest, 1892, 19, 23 ; 1893,37 
j Locusts, 1893, 47-53 ; 1897, 53-56 
Locust, from Southern Europe (see Ac- 
ridium cegyptium ) 
Locust, South American Migratory (see 
A cridiuvi paranense) 
Locustidce, 1893, 47-53 ; 1897, 56 
Non-migratory species from Southern 
Europe imported, and description 
of, 1893, 48, 49 ; north American 
migratory species, 51; migratory 
species of S.W. Asia and N. Africa, 
51, 52; bibliographical references, 
53; in alfalfa from Buenos Ayres, 
47, 49 ; 1897, 54 
