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Index. 



Bag- or basket-worm, bibliography, 81. 



Chalcis ovata, parasitic on, 86. 



depredations of, on Staten Island, 81. 



destroyed by six parasites, 84. 



difficulty in classifying, 83. 



erroneous references of, 83. 



families to which referred, 83. 



female moth, 82. 



tigures of, 82. 



food-plants, 84, 328. 



generic diagnosis, 84. 



genus published, 83. 



geographical distribution, 84. 



hand-picking, the best remedy, 87. 



Hemiteles ? thyridopterigis, parasitic on, 

 85. 



larval case described, 82. 



larval habits, 82. 



life-history by Riley, 83. 



moth described, 82. 



natural enemies, 84. 



original specimen of, 83. 



Pimpla conquisitor, parasitic on, 85. 



preference for cedar, 84. 



Pteromalus sp. ?, parasitic on, 86. 



remedies for, 57, 87. 



Stephens, Prof., upon, 83. 



Tachina sp. V, parasitic on, 87. 

 Baiting Noctuid;e, 70, 114. 

 Baits of potato for wire-worms, 63. 

 baja, Agrotis, 8, 340. 

 Banchus fugitivus, 320. 

 Banded Chion, 33u. 



Ips, 330. 



Lithacodes, 328. 



Phigalia, 329. 

 Barberry-aphis, 296. 

 barda, IVIallota, 211, 212, 215. 



Milesia, 211. 

 bardus, Merodon, 211. 

 Bark-lice, 160, 259. 

 Barnard, [W. S.] cited, 157, 163, 184. 



on cabbage-fly parasite, 188. 



on case-bearers, 166. 

 Barricades against migrations, 58. 

 Barrett, C. G., quoted, 119. 

 Bartlett, Dr., insects from, 313. 

 basilare, Sinoxylon, 330. 

 Basket-worm, Paris green for, 33. 



concealed life of female, 72. 

 Bassett, H. F., on the corn-bug, 235, 236. 

 Bath, N. Y., insects taken at, 90. 

 Beating remedy, 269. 

 Beautiful wood-nymph, 33. 

 Bed-bugs not attracted to all persons, 74. 



remedy for, 62. 

 Bees, effect of pyrethrum on, 40. 



parasites of, 79. 



resemble Syrphidse, 168. 



smelling-organs in, 69. 

 Beitrage zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanis- 

 chen Nachtfalter, von Prof. P. C. Zeller, 

 127, 157. 

 bellus, Phytocoris, 271. 

 Bennington, Vt., beet-leaf miners at, 210. 

 Benson, L., referred to, 130. 

 Benzine, for carpet-bugs, 59. 

 Benzole, a coal-tar product, 67. 

 Berg, Prof., on carniverous caterpillars, 119. 

 Berliner Entomol. Zeitschr., 216. 

 betarum, Chortophila, 208. 

 Bethune, [C. J. S.], cited, 172, 227, 230, 264. 



Bethunei, Xylina, 328, 341. 

 Bethune's Xyhna, 328, 341. 

 Bibliography, of birds, by Dr. Coues. 80. 



of economic entomology, 20. 



importance of, 80. 



extent of, in report, 80. 

 bicarnea, Agrotis, 340. 

 bicaudatus, Amphicerus, 312, 330. 



Bostrichus, 312. 

 Bill-bug, 260, 310. 

 bimaculata, Thelia, 284. 

 binotata, Enchenopa, 281-288. 



Membracis, 281, 282. 



Thelia, 281. 

 binotatum, Enchophyllum, 281, 285. 

 Biological collection, 



made by Prof. Riley, 24. 



of Department of Agriculture, 23. 



of museum at Cambridge, 24. 



of N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 23. 

 Biological collections of insects, 15. 



their character and arrangement, 23, 24. 

 Bird-flies, 79. 



-lice, 80. 



mites, 62. 

 Birds eating Nephelodes violans, 105. 



protection of certain insectiverous, 61. 

 Bisulphide of carbon, as an insecticide, 47, 

 48. 



destroys the cabbage-fly, 47, 190. 



method of using, 47. 



not available for general use, 47. 



Prof. Cook's experiments with, 47. 



promises protection from egg deposit, 47, 

 67. 



remedy for Anthomyi», 190, 199. 



used for killing the Phylloxera, 47. 



useful against other insects, 47, 199. 

 bivittata, Saperda, 297, 306. 

 Black Anomala, 307. 



-blight, 319, 320. 



blistering beetle, 305. 



fly attack, how prevented, 74. 



-knot, 308. 



-legged barley-fly, 307. 



scale of California, 332. 



worm, 312. 

 Blake, C. A., naphthaline cones of, 65. 

 Bland, Mr., cited, 236. 

 Blight on apple-trees, 314. 

 Blind Alaus, 330. 

 Blind-eyed Sphinx, 327. 

 Blissus leucopterus, 7, 58. 

 Blister-beetles, ash-gray, 32, 57. 



margined, 33, 57. 



striped, 33, 57. 

 Blistering-fly, 300. 

 Blow-fly, 169. 

 Blue bird feeds on Indian Cetonia, 234. 



feeds on violet Nephelodes, *102. 

 Blue caterpillars of the vine, 33. 

 Blue meat-fly, wing of, 170. 

 Board of Regents of the University, 296. 

 Boarmia, scent-producing organs in, 72. 

 Body-lice, 79. 

 Boisduval cited, 172. 

 Boll-worm, 8, 38, 117. 

 Bombycidce, brief life of, 340. 



carnivorous, 119. 



delayed pupation of, 137. 



notices of, 81, 87. 



of the apple-tree, 328. 



