80 
GENERAL INDEX. 
154, 155; experiments proposed to 
be carried out on the Duke of 
Bedford’s Experimental Fruit Farm 
at Woburn, 155-158 
Loss caused by, 1898, 34; experiments 
on, at Woburn, 34, 35; life-history 
of whole year now, 35-37; cost of 
hand-picking, 37, 38 ; possible 
means of dissemination, 38; other 
fruit bushes or crops grown amongst 
Black Currants, gives safety, and 
lessens attack, 38 
Phytoptus similis, detailed description 
of, by Dr. Nalepa, 1893, 89 
Phytoptus tristriatus, figure of leg of, 
1893, 84 
Phytoptus tristriatus var, carinea, figure 
of leg of, 1893, 84 
Phytoptus vermiformis (see Phytoptus 
avellance ) 
Pieris sp. 1879, 17; 1881, 5-8 
Pier is sp., pupae of, not injured by 
being frozen, 1879, 17 ; 1881, 5-8 
To check infestation of, by hand¬ 
picking, also by use of gas-lime, also 
with hellebore, and with salt, 1881, 7 
Pieris brassicce , 1877, 8, 9; 1878, 9, 10; 
1879, 16, 17 ; 1880, 25-27 ; 1881, 
5-8; 1882, 9, 10 ; 1884, 12, 13; 
1887, 87-89; 1896, 23-28 
Dates of first appearances of imagos 
and larvae, of the first and also of 
the second brood, 1877, 8, 9 
Appearance of imago at localities re¬ 
corded, from three weeks to a month 
earlier than in previous year, 1878, 
10 
Finely powdered salt, also caustic 
lime, and also caustic soot, service¬ 
able remedial applications, 1879,16 
Various observations on, 1880, 25-27 
Notes on infestations, 1881, 5-8 
To destroy, by hand-picking, 1882, 10 
Microgaster glomeratus, parasite of, 
1884, 12, 13; description of, 12, 13 
General information on, 1887, 89; 
parasites ( Microgaster glomeratus ), 
in larvas of, description and habits 
of, 89 
Notes on infested plants, 1896, 23, 24 ; 
distinctive characters of, and allied 
species, 24 ; habits of, 24; preven¬ 
tion and remedy, 26-28; sulphur, 
gas-lime, and Fisher Hobbs’s mix¬ 
ture for, suggested, 27 
Pieris napi, and P. rupee (see observations 
given in papers, mainly on P. 
brassicce) 
Pigmy Mangold Beetle (see Atomaria 
linearis) 
Pigsties, liquid from, 1877, 7 
Pimpla annulipes, referred to, 1896, 9 
Pine (see Plant index) 
Pine Beetle (see Hylurgus piniperda) 
Pine-boring Beetle, Striped (see Trypo- 
dendron lineatum) 
Pine Sawfly (see Lophyrus pini) 
Pine Sawfly, Fox-coloured (see Lophyrus 
rufus) 
Pine Sawfly, Small (see Lophyrus sp.) 
Pine Timberman (see Astynomus cedilis) 
Pine Tortrix (see Retinia turionana) 
Pine-bud Tortrix Moth, (see Retinia 
turionana) 
Pine-shoot Tortrix Moth (see Retinia 
buoliana) 
Pine or Fir Weevil (see Hylobius abietis) 
Pionea forficalis, 1891, 8-10 
Habits and food-plants, 1891, 8-10; 
prevention and remedies, 10 
Piophila apii, 1891, 15-18 
Method of attack, 1891, 15, 16; de¬ 
scription of larvie, 16 ; prevention 
and remedies for, 17 
Piophilapusilla ? infesting hops, 1883, 47 
Pipits ( Antlius sp.), usefulness of, 1884, v 
Pitch to catch earwigs, 1886, 6 
Pit Moth (see Laverna atra) 
Pitt’s axle-grease, 1895, 67 
Plant Louse (see Aphis spp.) 
Plasmodiopliora brassicce (“ Slime fun¬ 
gus ”), 1888, 27-31; 1892, 149-159 
Nature and history of, 1888, 28 ; gas- 
lime as a cure for, 29 
Account of method of growth of, and 
details of life-history, after Woronin, 
and Prof Marshall Ward, 1892,150, 
152; gas-lime found a cure for, by 
E. A. Ormerod, 156; observations 
on use of, by Dr. Voelcker, 157; 
care should be taken to remove and 
burn infested fragments, 158; win¬ 
ter state of, 158 
Platygaster minutus, parasite on (7m- 
domyia destructor , 1887, 37, 38 
Plectus cirratus , not causing clover sick¬ 
ness, 1887, 3 
Plectus granulosus , 1886, 36 ; (figures 
only), 1887, 4; 1889, 1 
Plovers (Charaelriidee), destroying Wire- 
worm, 1882, 52 
Plum (see Plant index) 
Plum, migrations of Hop Aphis (Aphis 
(Phorodon) humuli) to, and from, 
1887, 85, 86 
Plum Sawfly, reported on (genus and 
species doubtful), 1891, 82—85 ; pre¬ 
vention and remedies, 84, 85 
Plum Tree Beetle (see Scolytus rugulosus) 
Plusia gamma , 1879, 4, 40 ; 1883, 77,78 ; 
1891, 164; 1892, 31-37; 1897, 56-59 
Migration of, from N. Africa, across 
Europe, 1879, 4 ; date of appearance 
of, on S. coast and localities of great 
prevalence of in England, 4, 5 ; de¬ 
stroyed in great numbers in Essex 
by heavy rain in August, 5 
Injurious to Turnip leafage, at a lo¬ 
cality in Caithness, N.B., 1883, 77 ; 
list of food-plants, 78 
Reference to migration in 1879, 1891, 
164 
