247 



bicaudatus, Bostrichus, 125. 

 bicolor, Podura, 205, 244. 



Trombidium, 224. 

 biliueatus, Stenobothrus, 196. 

 Biological Society of Washington, 35. 

 bipunctata, Adalia, 232. 

 Birds as insect destroyers, 7, 8, 82, 177, 189, 



224. 

 Bisulphide of carbon, remedy for insects, 

 21, 22, 34, 35, 64. 



to prevent insect attack, 65. 

 bivittata, Saperda, 27. 

 bivittatus, Xyloterus, 54. 

 bivulnerus, Chilocorus, 186. 

 Black-billed cuckoo, 8, 82. 

 Blackbirds eating the cicada, 178. 



feeding on grasshoppers, 189. 

 Black blister-beetle, 227. 



flies, 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, Achoi-utes, 206. 

 bombvcis, Micrococcus, 40. 

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

 Bombylidaj, 45. 

 Bombylius, 223. 

 borealis, Gryllotalpa, 233. 

 Boreus brumalis, 238. 



genus described, 236-7. 



hyemalis, 236, 238. 



nivoriuudus, 238-9. 

 Bostrichina;, 132. 

 Bostrichus bicaudatus, 125. 



typogi-aphus in Eui'ope, 55. 

 botrana, Eudemis, 33. 

 Botrytis Bassiana, of the silk-worm, 179. 

 Bottle trap for garden insects, 

 Bowles [G. J.], ou currant Ampbidasys, 97, 



98. 

 Boxing base of trees for collecting pupie, 228. 

 Brachytarsus limbatus, 141. 



sticticus, 140. 



varius, 140. 

 Brachj'tarsus 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. 

 brassicie, Anthomyia, 28. 



Plusia, 89-93,'94. 

 Brine, for insect attack, 200. 

 Bristle-tails, 207. 



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

 Bruchus fabM, 228. 



obsoletus, 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. 'a carbolic soap, 24. 

 Buffalo 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 brassicfe, 93. 

 Capnia pygmsea, 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 repel carpet bugs, 232. 

 Carbonic acid gas for Angoumois moth, 110. 

 carinata, Microgaster, 39. 

 carnifex, Cimex, 144. 



Cosmopepla, 144-147. 

 Eysarcoris, 144. 

 Pentatoma, 145. 



