624 
Bean weevil, 587°, 590’, 602°. 
Beans, Bruchus obtectus injuring, 
587i: 
Bed bug hunter, masked (kissing 
bug), 5347, 538°, 557°, 562°, 585°, 
588°, 597°, 614°. 
Bed bugs, 585°, 586'. 
Beech tree, Neoclytus erythrocepha- 
lus reared from, 556°. 
Bees, 588’. 
bumble, 558°, 566°, 588", 600°. 
honey, 566°, 587°, 600°. 
humble, see Bees, bumble. 
large carpenter, 600°. 
Beets, Mamestra picta injurious to, 
584°. 
sugar, insects injurious to: 
Chelymorpha argus, 602*. 
Systena frontalis, 538’, 
602°. 
bellona, Brenthis, 607°. 
Belostoma americanum, 615’. 
Benacus griseus, 615°. 
Beneficial insects, 587°-88°, 588°, 598°. 
Berberick, J., insects from, 615’. 
Betula alba, see Birch, white. 
lenta, see Birch, black. 
lutea, see Birch, yellow. 
betulaecolens, Callipterus, 556’, 616°. 
betuleti, Agrilus, 590*. 
bicolor, Sehirus, 6137. 
bifurcus, Boletotherus, 602’. 
Bigsbee, John, report from, 570°. 
bilinearia, Endropia, 612’. 
bimaculata, Oberea, 563°, 569*, 603°. 
binotata, Enchenopa, 569°, 615°. 
Biologic collection, exhibition of, ad- 
vocated, 575°. 
bipunctata, Adalia, 556°, 5957, 605°. 
Birch aphis, 556°. 
Birch borer, bronze, 582°, 605’. 
Birch tree, insects injurious to: 
Agrilus anxius, 5567, 5827, 590*, 
6057. 
Callipterus betulaecolens, 556’, 
616°. 
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Birch tree, black, Agrilus anxius in- 
festing, 557°-58*. 
cut leaved, insects injurious to: 
borer (? Agrilus anxius), 563°. 
unknown insect (possibly Agri- 
lus anxius), 569’. 
white, insects injurious to: 
Agrilus anxius, 5587, 5827. 
‘Aspidiotus ancylus, 617°. 
yellow, Agrilus anxius infesting, 
557°-58*. 
Birds in relation to insect abund- 
ance, 544’, 5537, 561°, 564°, 566%, 
568°, 596". 
Bittersweet, Hnchenopa binotata de- 
stroying, 569°, 615°. 
Black fly, large (Tabanus atratus), 
565°. 
Black 
5o2?: 
Blackberry bushes, Oberea bimacu- 
lata injuring, 563°, 603°. 
Blissus leucopterus, 592°, 614°. 
Blister beetles, 583°, 5977. 
ash gray, 597’, 602", 
black, 571°. 
striped, 5977, 597°, 602°. 
Bloodgood, Tremain, referred to, 
560°. 
Blue jay, feeding on forest tent cat- 
erpillar, 544°. 
Bogue, Virgil, insects from, 616°; 
summary of voluntary reports of, 
5667. 
Boletotherus bifurcus, 6027. 
Bombus fervidus, 600°. 
virginicus, 600°. 
Bombyx mori, 587°. 
Bordeaux mixture cited, 596°. 
borealis, Epilachna, 591’. 
Borers, 554°, 5587, 590*, 596°. 
round hheaded, 574°, 577°. 
Bot fly, 606°. 
boucheanus, Dibrachys, 600°. 
Boutwell, L. E., insects from, 601°. 
walnut caterpillar, striped, 
