GENERAL INDEX. 



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Bees, uvinphs of vol. i. 258 



proceedings of, oil returning to hive ii. 200 



queen ... i- 252 



queen-making among ...... i. 261 



queens, contending . . . . . i.257 



sight of i- 194 



solitary, " Carpenters " iii. 88, 319 



- solitary, "Masons" . .... iii. 88, 313 



solitary, " Miners " iii. 88 



solitary, " Upholsterers " iii. 80 



stingless ........ i. 156 



- thigh-baskets of . i. 199, 205 



workers .......... i. 253 



Beetles, aquatic . i. 293, 299 



dung-resorting and carrion-feeding, uses of, as suucngers . iii. 124 



final transformations of ....... ii. 30 



Birch-bark Caterpillars, and Gilded Moths from .... iii. 271 



l;inls that prey on insects i. 169 



Blight, the white, on apple-trees i. 183 



Blight-insects, and errors concerniug . ... i. 173 



origin and propagation of . . . . . . i. 173 



Blood-worms (larvae of Chironomiis plumosus) . . . . i. 71 



Blue Buttcrllies (genus Polyommaius) . . . . . ii. 134, iii. 265 



caterpillars of ......... ii. 135 



Boat of eggs constructed by the female Gnat ..... i. 62 



Bombyx Mori (Silkworm) . i. 1 62 



Book of Nature a book of symbols . . . ii. 292 



Book of Nature, how to read it i. 22 



Books on Entomology i. 4, 15, 17, 21, 22, 27 



Borer, or Brad-awl, of the common Ichneumon . . . .iii. 329 



BostricliKS typographicus (Printer Beetle) . . . . . ii. 163 



Bougeaut, Father, speculation on brute existence . . . . i. 291 



Bracelet of Eggs . . . ... i. 95 



Breathing-organs of Insects ........ i. 204 



Brimstone Butterfly (Gonopterix Ehamni) i. 107, 316, ii. 119 



caterpillar of ....... ii. 120 



its resemblance to a floral product . . . . . ii. 120 



Brimstone Moth (Rumia cratcegata) ... . ii. 316 



