INDEX. 
Agriotes lineatus, 37 
Aldersey Grammar School—prevention 
of insect injury taught at, v 
Aleyrodes Phillyrese, 54 
Anthomyia betae, 48 
,, ceparum, 50 
,, brassicae, 10 
,, floralis, 10 
,, radicum, 10 
Aphis, Cabbage, 9, 10 
,, Carrot, 17, 18 
,, Grain, 25 
,, Hop, iv, and Appendix 
,, papaveris, 18 
,, Pine, 59—61 
Apple, Sawfly, 1—3 
,, Small Ermine Moth, 3, 4 
,, Winter Moth, 4—6 
Beans, 7—9 
Beet and Mangold Fly, 48—50 
Birds, 40—43 ; risk of over increasing 
as well as over diminishing, 42 
Brown legged Weevil, 68: to trap, 69 ; 
to catch on tarred boards, 69 
Byturus tomentosus, 65 
Cabbage Aphis, 9 ; plants it frequents, 
10 
Cabbage Fly, 10 ; attracted by rotting 
matter, 17 ; habits of, 11 
Cabbage root maggot, 10—17; attacks 
of after use of farm manure, 11, 12, 
13, 15, 16 ; dipping in soot and water 
as preventive for, 13 ; gas-lime, pre¬ 
ventive for, 15; no attack of after 
burnt ashes and artificial manure, 12; 
no attack on land dressed with hot 
lime, 13 ; watering with lime-water, 
as remedy for, 15 
Carrot Fly, 18—20; change of crop, a 
preventive of attack, 20 
Carrot Green Fly, 17 
Cecidomyia nigra, 52; tritici, 34 
Celery and Parsnip Fly, 20—23 ; habits 
of, 21 ; severe attacks of, 22 
Cerostoma xylostella, 72 
Cheimatobia brumata, 4—6 
Cherry and Pear Sawfly, 23—24 ; caustic 
dressings applied at short intervals to 
destroy caterpillar, 24; skimming 
infested surface-soil to prevent attack, 
24 
Circulars on maggots in manure, iv 
Click Beetles, 37—40 
Corn and Grass, 25—40 
Cossus ligniperda, 63 
Daddy Longlegs, 27—32 ; grubs after 
clover, 30; attacks kept under by 
fertilizers, 30; in dung, 31 ; removed 
by handpicking, 31 ; under sods, 30 
Diamond-back Turnip Moth, 72 ; cater¬ 
pillars, description of, 73 ; nitrate of 
soda, remedy for attack of, 73 ; plants 
infested by, 75 ; web formed by, 73 
Davidson’s Composition, 5 
Elaters, 37—40 
Elater lineatus, 37 
Euacanthus interruptus, 45 
False Wire worms, 7, 8 
Flea-beetle, Turnip, 76 
Fly, Mangold, 48 
,, Onion, 50 
,, Turnip, 76 
Frog-fly, 45 
Fruit, fallen, removal of, 2, 53 
Gas-lime, 6, 14, 15, 44 
Gooseberry and Currant Sawfly, 43, 44; 
clearing infested soil from under 
bushes, 43, 44; gas-lime, lime, and 
Hellebore preventives of attack, 44 
Goat Moth, 63, 65 
Grain Aphis, 25—27; wild grasses 
frequented by, 26 
Guano and Salt, &c., 30 
Haltica nemorum, 76 
Hop Aphis (see Appendix) 
Hop Cuckoo-fly, 45 ; frog-fly, 45, 47; 
attacks of in alternate years, 46 
Hop-strig, fly-maggot, 47, 48; ? Pio- 
phila pusilla, 48 
Hoplocampa testudinea, 1 
Hybernia prosapiaria, 5 
Hylurgus piniperda, 61 
Julus guttatus, 7 
Julus-worms, 7, 8; habits of, 7; 
attracted by cotton cake, 8 ; salt found 
to destroy, 8 
Jumpers, 45 
Lampronia rubiella, 66 
Lime, 77, 80 ; to destroy insects on pear 
trees, 56 
Looper grubs, 5 
