Index 



Arilus cristatus L., 294 



armored scales, 254 



army worm, 1 59 



Ashmead, W. H., xi, 2, 12, 20, 31, 32, 



33. 49. 56, 59. 73 

 Asilidae, 88, 136, 141 

 Asiloidea, Super-family, 88 

 Asilus sericeus, 143 

 Asindulum montanum, 117 

 assassin bugs, 293 

 Aster, 1 14 

 Atherix, 126 

 Atropidffi, 352 

 Atwood, 327 



Australian cockroach, 330 

 Axima zabriskii, 8 



Baccha, 150 



back-rolling wonder, 340 



back swimmers. The, 275 



Baeus, 51 



Bailey, W. W., 212 



Banks, Nathan, xi, 218 



bark lice, 113, 250 



bat ticks, 190 



beating net, 391 



bedbug, 82 



bed-bug family, the, 288 



bed-bug, Life history of, 289 



bee, bumble, 6 



common carpenter, 10 



cuckoo, 7 

 bee-flies, 137 



bee-fly, typical life-history of, 138 

 bee hives, 128 



honey, 6 



large carpenter, 9 



mason, 10, 1 1 



small carpenter, 8 

 bees, blunt-tongued burrowing, 12 



leaf-cutting, 10 



obtuse-tongued carpenter, 12 



parasitic, 1 1 



potter, 1 1 



sharp-tongued burrowing, 12 



the true, 4 

 belostoma americanum, 278 

 Belostomatidae, 271, 278 

 Benacus griseus Say, 278 

 Berytidae, 272, 309 

 Bethe, Albrecht, 41 

 Bethylidas, 25, 33 

 Beutenmiiller W., 365, 366 

 Bibio albipennis, 1 19 

 Bibionidae, 86, 119 

 Bibionidea, Super-family, 85, 86 

 bibliography, 405 

 big-eyed flies, 149 

 bird lice, 82, 347 

 bird ticks, 188, 189 



biting lice, 347 

 Bittacomorpha, 95 , 



clavipes Fab., 95 

 Bittacus, 207 

 black ant, 46 

 black beetle, 330 

 black carpenter ant, 43 

 black cricket, 342 

 black flies and buffalo gnats, 120 

 black fly, 80 

 black horse fly, 132 

 Biepharocera capitata Loew, 125 

 Blattidae, 322, 329 

 Blepharoceridae, 86, 124 

 Blissus leucopterus Say, 310, 311 

 blood-sucking cone-nose, 293 

 blow-fly, 164 

 blue-bottle flies, 164, 166 

 Boisduval, 49 

 Bombidae, 6 

 Bombus borealis, 14 



fervidus Fabr., 12, 14 

 Bombyliidae, 87, 88, 134, 137 

 Bonnet, 262 



book-lice and their allies. The, 35 

 Borboridae, 92, 187 

 Boreus, 207 

 bot-flies, 155 



bot-flies, typical life history of, 155 

 Bothriothorax, 57 

 bottle, the cyanide, 401 

 box elder plant bug, 305 

 Brachycera, 84, 86 

 Brachydeutera argentata, 182 

 Brachypeplus magnus, 333 

 Brauer, L., 207, 217 

 Brewer, W. A., 182 

 bristletails, 380 

 Buckley, 356 

 buffalo gnats, 120 



tree hopper, life history of the, 239 

 Bugonia Myth, 153 

 bugs, the true, 226, 269 

 bumblebee, 6 



life history of, 12 

 Burns, Robert, 316 

 Burroughs John, 344 

 burrowing bees, 12 

 Busck, August, 33 



Butterflies of the Eastern United States 



and Canada, The, by Scudder, 61 



Butterfly Book, The, W. J. Holland, 



IX 



button bolls of sycamore, 3 1 1 



cabinet, preparing insects for the, 401 



cabinet. The, 403 



Caddis flies, 195, 196 



Caenis, 79 



Calliphora erythrocephala, 164 



418 



