GENERAL INDEX. 
25 
and water for application to pasture 
land, 31; prevention and remedies, 
30, 31; birds, to encourage on in¬ 
fested land, 30 
Description of, and allied species, 
1895, 23, 25; injury caused by, 25, 
26 ; description of larvae, 31 
Grass-land suffering from, 1896, 35; 
suggested treatment of infested 
grass-land, 40 
Attacking two acres of Strawberries, 
1898, 120; hand-picking as a re¬ 
medy, 121 ; life-history of, 121 ; 
treatment for prevention of attack, 
122; splendid result of turf-traps 
for, 122; encouragement of wild 
birds to destroy, 123 
Melon (see Plant index) 
Melophagus cervi (see Lipoptera cervi) 
Melophagus ovinus, 1895, 119-122 
Description of, 1895, 120 ; life-history 
of, 120, 121; Dr. Cooper Curtice’s 
work on, 122 
Merisus destructor , 1887, 37 
Merisus intermedius (var. micropterus) 
parasitic on Cecidomyia destructor , 
1887, 37, 38 
Mermis , Nematoid Thread-worms, para¬ 
site of larvae of Charceas graminis, 
1894, 17 
Miana (? expolita), 1894, 37-43 
Localities of observations on, 1894, 37, 
38; injuries of larvae toWheat plants, 
37 ; descriptionandlife-history of,39 
Miana fasciuncula, referred to, 1894, 39 
Miana strigilis, referred to, 1894, 39 
Microgaster glomeratus , 1884, 12, 13 ; 
1887, 89 
Note on abundance of, 1884, 12 
Parasite of Pieris brassicce, 1887, 89 
Midge, American Clover-seed (see Ceci¬ 
domyia leg uminicola) 
Midge, Pear (see Diplosis pyrivora) 
Midsummer Gad Fly (see Aty lotus fulvus 
and Tabanidce) 
Migratory Locust of South America (see 
Acridium paranense) 
Mill Moth, 1896, 103-106 (see also 
Epliestia kuhniella) 
Millepedes (see Julidce, Julus, and Poly- 
desmus) 
Millepede, Earth (see Julus terrestris ) 
Millepede, Flattened (see Polydesmus 
complanatus) 
Millepede, London (see Julus londinensis ) 
Millepede, Spotted (see Julus guttatus) 
Mineral oil and soft-soap mixture, Mr. 
A. Shearer’s recipe for, with direc¬ 
tions for use of, 1884, 66, 67 
Minute Black Ladybird (see Scymnus 
minimus ) 
Mite, Harvest (see Trombidiidce) 
Mites, beneficial: 
Oribata lapidaria, probably beneficial 
in destroying Protococcus on fruit 
trees, 1894, 82-84 
Trombidiidce , feeding on Aphis sp., 
1885, 38, 39 
Mites, Gall (see Phytoptidce and Phy- 
t optus) 
Mites, Hay (see Tyroglyphus longior ) 
Mites on fruit trees (see Oribata lapidar- 
aria) 
Mole (Talpa europcea), 1878, 23; 1880, 
8; 1882, 53, 86 
Beneficial, 1878, 23 
Destroying Wireworms, 1880, 8 
Destroying Cockchafer grubs (Canada) 
and Wireworms, 1882, 53, 86 
Moth Blight (see Aleyrodes spp.) 
Mottled Umber Moth (see Hybernia 
defoliaria) 
Mouse, Shrew ( Sorex vulgaris ), bene¬ 
ficial, 1878, 23 
Mullein (see Plant index) 
Murrain ? in cattle, 1887, 126 ; 1898, 
72-75 
Popularly attributed to larva of Ele¬ 
phant Hawk Moth ( Chcerocampa 
elpenor), 1887, 126 
Further observations on, 1898, 72-75; 
description of larva and moth, 73, 
74; alleged mischief probably attri¬ 
butable to poisonous water plants, 75 
Murrain Worm, 1887, 126, 127; 1898, 
72-75 (see also Chcerocampa elpenor ) 
Musca domestica, 1896, 76-83 
Description of, 1896, 77; life-history 
of, 77-79; localities frequented by, 
for breeding, 79; attacks of, to 
Horses, 80; observations on, by 
Dr. Spooner Hart, 80; artificial 
“eye-fringe” to prevent attack of, 
82 ; garden trap for, 82 ; phenyle- 
water as a preventive, 82; to clear 
windows of, 83 ; sulphur fumigation 
suggested, 83 
Mustard (see Plant index) 
Mustard Beetle (see Pliceclon betulce ) 
Mytilaspis pomorum, 1898, 15 
Mentioned, 1898, 15 
Myzus cerasi, referred to, 1882, 13 
N. 
Nail-galls, caused by Phytopti , 1887, 81 
Nectarine (see Plant index) 
Nematodes, referred to, 1889, 2 
Nemutus consobrina ?, feeding on Goose¬ 
berry, 1882, 66 
Nematus ribesii, 1878, 22 ; 1879, 26-29, 
43; 1880, 36-39, 46; 1881, 25-28; 
1882, 64-67; 1883, 43, 44; 1884, 
39-43 ; 1893, 147-149; 1895, 45-51 
To destroy, by removal of surface soil, 
1878, 22 
To destroy, by applications of sulphur, 
1879, 27; also of powdered helle¬ 
bore, 27 
To destroy, by hand-picking early in 
the morning, 1880, 36; eggs laid on 
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