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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
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Bacon, Austin. Insects destroyed by vege- 
tables. (Bulletin Torrey bot. club, Dec. 
1874, v. 5, p» 51-52. 6 cm.) 
Mentions the occasional inability of urocerata to 
extricate their ovipositors from trees which they were 
boring; the capture of insects in the closing flowers of 
nymphaea odorata, and their destruction when the lat- 
ter were drawn under water for the maturity of their 
fruit; and the occasional inability of gall insects and 
the apple borer to escape from their host plants. 
W: T. (2216) 
Bailey, W: Whitman. Afocynum. (Bull. 
Torrey bot. club, Feb. 1874, v. 5, p- 9-10, 
12 cm.) 
Records the capture of small _coleoptera_ by the 
flowers, and quotes a passage from Dr. Darwin’s 
‘* Loves of the flowers” concerning the similar capture 
of diptera. W: T. (2217) 
Bailey. W: Whitman. Bees on gerardia 
pedicularia, L. (Bull. Torrey bot. club, 
Oct. 1871, v. 2. p- 39, 8 cm.) 
Humble bees [é0mbus] observed collecting nectar 
exclusively through perforations in the corolla. 
W: T. (2218) 
Bailey, W: Whitman. Perforation of ger- 
ardia pedicularia by bees. (Amer. nat., 
Nov. 1873. v. 7, p- 689-690, 22 cm.) 
Finds that humble bees [bombus] visit the flowers 
but do not enter them from the mouth, obtaining nectar 
through perforations near the base of the corolla, which, 
however, he has never seen the bees make. 
W: T. (2219) 
Basket worm (The). A new and dan- 
gerous enemy to the hedges and evergreens 
hereabout. From the New York sun. 
(Kansas City [Kans.] journal, 12 Aug. 
1880, p. 15, col. 1, 43 cm.) 
Brief life-history of thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis 
and other notes upon this species, mostly by A.S. 
Fuller. G: D. (2220) 
Bassett, Homer Franklin. Description of a 
new species of cyuzps. Cynips g. riley?, n. 
sp. (Amer. nat. Feb. 1881, v. 15, p- 149- 
150.) (Separate [General notes; entomol- 
ogy], from Amer. nat., Feb. 1881, p. 149- 
150. ) 
Description of the species and of its galls on guwer- 
cus castanea. iG? (2221) 
Beal, W. J. Agency of insects in fertilizing 
plants. (Amer. nat., 1867, v. 1, July, p. 
254-260; Oct., p- 403-408.) 
Describes the fertilization of campanula, taraxvacum, 
amorpha, lupinus, oenothera, digitalis, kalmia, andro- 
meda and tris by various insects. Wd. sizee2} 
Bee-farm in New South Wales (A). (Colo- 
nies and India, 30 Oct. 1880, p. 10-11, 14 
cm.) 
Notes on the bee-farm of W : Dunn, of Sidney. 
G: D.~ (@223) 
Bell, James Thompson. Arboreal ausculta- 
, tion. (Can. entom., Jan. 1881, v.13, 0pe 
19-20. ) 
From observation of woodpeckers [ prcus] at work, 
the author thinks that the exact location of a “‘borer’”’ in 
a tree can be determined with an instrument similar to 
a stethoscope or to an ear-trumpet, and the grub then 
killed by piercing with an awl. Gr D. (a2z2%) 
Bergroth, E. Die zwolfte skandinavische 
Naturforscher-Versammlung. (Entom. 
Nachrichten, 15 Nov. 1880, jahrg. 6, p. 256- 
Oil ) 
257- ; 
Notice of the meeting of 7-14 July 1880, and list of 16 
entomological papers read. G: D. (2225) 
Bethune, C: James Stewart, ed., see CANADIAN EN- 
TOMOLOGIST. 
[Bibliography of economic entomology. | 
(Amer. nat., Jan. 1881, v. 15, p.84.) (Psy- 
che, Nov. 1880 [ Mar. 1881], v. 3, p- 143.) 
Preliminary notices of a proposed bibliography of 
economic entomology to be prepared by the United 
States entomological commission. G: D. (2226) 
Bickford, Robert. Honey bee killed by silk- 
weed pollen. (Amer. nat., Jan. 1869, v. 2, 
p- 665, 4 cm.) 
Describes a hive bee [afzs mel/ifica] so entangled by 
the pollinia of asclepias as to be unable to obtain its food, 
and hence starved to death. W: T. (2227) 
Blanc, H. Anatomie et physiologie de l’ap- 
pareil sexuel male des phalangides. Sper- 
matogénése, fécondation, hermaphroditis- 
me. (Bull. soc. vaud. sci. nat., Dec. 1880, 
Ss. 2, v. 17, no. 84, p. 49-78, pl. 4-6.) 
Anatomical results based chiefly on study of phalan- 
gium cornutum, ph. opilio, ph. longipes and ph. rotun- 
dum. G: (2228) 
