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INDEX. 



Arbor-vitre, bag-worm on, 273. 



Arctiid;c, 266. 



Argynnis species, 244. 



Arista of flies, 330. 



Armored scales, 114. 



Army-worm, 294. 



Arsenate of lead and its use, 436. 



Arsenic and lime combinations, 434. 



Arsenic as an insecticide, 434. 



Arsenites and their use, 433-438. 



Ascalaphus species, 76. 



Asilidae, 344. 



Asopia costalis, 312. 



Asparagus beetle, 211. 



Aspidiotus perniciosus, n8. 



Atomaria species, 177. 



Atomizer sprayers, 457. 



Atropos species, 69. 



Attacus species, 279, 



Auditory sense of insects, 43. 



Automeris io, 283. 



Bag-worms, 273. 

 Balancers of flies, 327. 

 Balaninus species. 234. . 

 Bandings of printers' ink, etc., 431. 

 Bark-beetles, 237. 



-slippers, 207. 

 Beak of bug mouth, 16. 

 Bean lady-bird, 175. 



-weevils. 223. 

 Bed-bug, 155. 

 Beech blight, 133. 

 Bees, 407. 



long- and short-tongiied. 410. 

 Bee-flies, 345. 



-louse, 370. 



-moth, 316. 



mouth, 19. 

 Beet-leaf maggots. 36c;. 

 Beetles, chapter on, 164. 



classification of, 165. 

 Bell moths, 319. 

 Belostoma americana, 150. 

 Bembeaia marginata, 260. 

 Bembecidre, 403. 

 Bibionidae, 340. 

 Bichloride of mercury. 439. 

 Bill-bugs in corn, 236. 



i^)ipectinated antennae. 21. 

 Bisulphide of carbon, 453. 



against hen-lice, 71. 

 against Termites, 67. 

 Biting lice, described, 70. 

 Bittacus, 77. 



Black beetles, their habits, 83. 

 Blackberry cane-borer, 186. 



crown-borer, 260. 



pithy gall, 378. 



root-borers, 206. 



saw-fly borer, 375. 

 Black flies. 340. 

 Blattidae, described, 81. 

 Blennocampa pygmaea, 374. 

 Blissus leucopterus, 158. 

 Blister beetles, 225. 

 Blood of insects, 33. 

 Blow-fly, 257. 

 Blues and coppers, 245. 

 Body-louse, life hi.story, 105. 

 Boiled lime wash, 442. 

 Boll-worm, 303. 

 Bombardier beetles, 168. 

 Bombyliidce, 345. 

 Bombylius species, 345. 

 Book-lice, 68. 

 Borax, against roaches, 82. 

 Bordeaux mixture and its uses, 438. 

 Boreal lady-bird, 175. 

 Borers, remedies for, 188, 430. 

 Boreus, 77. 

 Bostrychus, 193. 

 Bots on cattle, 352. 

 Bot-flies, 351. 

 Brachinus, 168. 

 Brachystola magna, 91. 

 Braconidae, 382. 

 Brain in insects, 39. 

 Bran and Paris green, 438. 

 Braula caeca, 370. 

 Breast-bone of gall-gnats, 336. 

 Breathing of insects, 33. 

 Bristle-tails, 53. 

 Bristled antennas, 22. 

 Bruchidae, 223. 

 Brush-footed butterflies, 242. 

 Buffalo gnat, 340. 



grasshopper, 91. 



