247 



bicaudatns, Bostrichus, 125. 

 bicolor, I'odura, 205, 244. 



Tronibidiuin, 224. 

 bilineatus, Stoiiobothrus, 196. 

 Biological Society of Washington, 35. 

 bipunctata, Adalia, 232. 

 Birds as insect destroyers, 1, 8, 82, 177, 189, 



224. 

 Bisulphide of carbon, remedy for insects, 

 21, 22, 34, 35, 64. 



to prevent insect attack, 65. 

 bivittata, Siiperda, 27. 

 bivittatus, Xylotcrus, 54. 

 bivulnenis, Chilocorus, 186. 

 Black-billed cuckoo, 8, 82. 

 Blackbirds eating the cicada, 178. 



feeding on grasshoppers, 189. 

 Black blister-beetle, 227. 



Hies, 112. 



long-sting, 230. 



worm, 43. 

 Blight aphis, 35. 

 Blissus leucopterus (see chinch-bug), 4, 148- 



164, 166, 232, 233. 

 Blodget, Lorin, on peach-root aphis, 19. 

 Blue bird, feeds on canker-worms, 8. 

 boletivorus, Achorutes, 206. 

 bombycis. Micrococcus, 40. 

 BombycidiB, 68, 74, 76, 100, 213, 214. 

 Bombvlidffi, 45. 

 Bombylius, 223. 

 borealis, Gryllotalpa, 233. 

 Boreus bruinalis, 238. 



genus described, 236-7. 



hyemalis, 236, 238. 



nivoriundus, 238-9. 

 Bostrichinx, 132. 

 Bostrichus bicaudatus, 125. 



typosraphus in Europe, 55. 

 botrana, Eudemis, 33. 

 Botrytis Bassiana, of the silk-worm, 179. 

 Bottle trap for garden insects, 

 Bowles [G. J.], on currant Amphidasys, 97, 



98. 

 Boxing base of trees for collecting pupae, 228. 

 Brachytarsus limbatus, 141. 



sticticus, 140. 



varius, 140. 

 Brachytarsus variegatus, 139-141. 



beetle described, 141. 



bibliography, 139. 



distribution, 141. 



larva feeds on bark-lice, 140. 



parasitic on Coccus, 140. 



synonymy, 139. 



wheat' attack, 140. 

 Bran and arsenic mash for grasshoppers, 197. 

 brassica), Anthomyia, 28. 



Plusia, 89-93,"94. 

 Brine, for insect attack, 200. 

 Bristle-tails, 207. 



Brodie, Wm., on food-plants of Cecropia, 77. 

 Bruchus fabiB, 228. 



obsolctus, 49. 

 brumalis, Boreus, 238. 



Trichocera, 243. 

 Bruner [Lawrence], referred to, 188. 

 Brushing bark for insect attack, 187, 230, 



232. 

 buccata, Cuterebra, 46. 

 Bucculatrix pomifoliella, 224. 



Buchan & Co.'s carbolic soap, 24. 

 Bufifalo Naturalists' Field Club, 231. 

 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological So- 

 ciety, 57. 

 Iowa Agricultural College, 186. 

 Bulletins of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Science, 89, 116. ' 

 N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station, 



118, 234. 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture — Di- 

 vision of Entomology, 20, 37, 41, 43, 

 90, 149. 

 U. S. Entomological Commission, 149, 



224. 

 U. S. Geological and Geographical Sur- 

 vey of the Territories, 145, 149, 165, 

 183. 

 Burnett, Dr., on the 17-year locust, 175, 177. 

 Burning for insect attacks, 131, 161, 163, 167, 



225, 226, 230, 233. 

 Butalis cerealella, 102. 

 buxi, Psylla, 18. 



C. 



Cabbage aphis, 32. 



butterfly, 90, 92, 93 

 maggot, 28. 

 Plusia, 89-93. 



bibliography, 89, 90. 

 broods, number of, 92. 

 cannibalistic habits, 93. 

 distribution, 92. 

 food-plants, 91. 

 increasing destructiveness, 90. 

 injuries from, 92. 

 larva described and figured, 90. 

 moth described and figured, 90, 91. 

 pupa described and figured 90, 91. 

 remedies for, 93. 

 resemblance to Plusia ni, 92. 

 worm, 26, 27, 32. 

 coelatus, Xyleborus, 54. 

 calmariensis, Pyrrhocoris, 166. 

 Caloptenus atlauis, 196. 



femur-rubrum, 190, 193. 

 spretus, 196. 

 Camaronotus cinnamopterus, 186. 



fraternus, 186. 

 Camphor, for root-insects, 35. 

 Canadian Entomologist, references and cita- 

 tions, 41, 42, 69, 78, 89, 94, 97, 109, 136, 

 139, 142, 164, 203, 214, 215, 219, 220, 225, 

 230. 

 Candida, Saperda, 27. 

 canicularis, Cicada, 179. 

 Canker-worm, 7, 27, 44. 

 Cannibalism of Heliothis armiger, 93. 



of Plusia brassicae, 93. 

 Capnia pygmtea, 239. 



Carbolic acid, as an insect preventive, 25, 36, 

 65, 66, 232. 

 for the cabbage worm, 27. 

 Carbolic plant protector, 



wash to protect from fruit-tree borers, 24. 

 Carbolized paper, to rejjcl cai'pet bugs, 232. 

 Carbonic acid gas for Angoumois moth, 110. 

 carinata, Microgaster, 39. 

 carnifex, Ciinex, 144. 



Cosmopepla, 144-147. 

 Eysarcoris, 144. 

 Pentatoma, 145. 



