IV 



THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Basket Egg-nest of Spider 180 



Basaiys 53 



Batrisus spretus 37 



Bed-bugs 26 



Bedeguar of the Rose 298 



Bee-flies, On the natural history of 



certain 279 



Bee-keeper in France 114 



" nuisance 55, 176 



Bees, American z's. Italian 195 



" Mistaken instinct of. ... . . 74 



Beer mash, Its uselessness as insecti- 

 cide 245 



Beetles from Northwest Territory. . . 108 

 " injuring Cabbages and Fuch- 

 sias 200 



" supposed to be feeding on 



Wheat 50 



Beheading of flies by a Western 



plan t 45 



Beinbidium i mpressunt 108 



*' lampros 26 



" monticola 26 



Beneficial Insects destroyed by fun- 



tus disease 149 

 upon by Blue- 

 birds 204 



Best Cotton-worm destroyer 204 



Bibio albipennis 13 



Bidens chrysanthcmoides 75 



Biddulphia 79 



Bill providing for the extermination 



of I nsects 177 



Binkley Atomizer 211 



Biological studies on Silpha ratnosa 265 

 Birds destroying innoxious Insects. . 100 



" " Insects 70 



" of prey, Destruction of 244 



'^ vs. Insects 69. 96 



Bisulphide of Carbon for Cabbage- 

 maggots 264 



Bitter-sweet, Secretion on Stems of. 254 



Black Ash borer. 181 



" Bass, Larva; in Stomach of... 130 



Blackberry affected by Insects 62 



Canes, Gall on 107 



Black-fly. Development of 191 



Black-locust injured by Insects ..,, 59 



Blastophaga 77 



Blind-eyed Smerinthus 254 



Blissus leiicopterus 46 



Blister-beetles affected by Pyrethrum 



Powder 193 



" from New Mexico 132 



" Retarded development 



of 196 



" wanted 181 



Blow-flies 21, liM 



" Abnormal prevalence of . . 21 



Blothrus 84 



Bluebird, Food of the 215 



" feeding on parasitic and 



predaceous Insects 204 



Bodo 79 



Bogus Colorado Potato-beetle 118 



'^ Yucca Moth 141, 145. 183 



Boisduval t 103 



Boll, Jacob t 376 



Boll-rot caused by Boll-worm. . .250, 253 



Boll-worm 7 



" aflFected by Pyrethrum. . . 252 



" causing the Boll-rot 250 



*■' devouring Cotton-worm . 253 



" feeding on Cotton-leaf. . . 254 



" feeding on hard Corn .... 278 



" very destructive in Texas 250 



Bombus virginicus 107 



Bombyliidae 279, 282 



Bombyliini 283 



Bombylius inajor 280, 281, 283 



" boghariensis 280 



" mediits 281 



Borer in Black Ash 22 



" preventive 173 



Borers in Cherry, Peach and Plum 



trees 298 



Boston Society of Natural History.. 104 



Bostryckus 51 



Box-Elder injured by bug 163 



Brnchylobus 13 



Bradycellus 13 



Bramble Flea-louse 62 



Brazilian Insects, Donation of 218 



Bronse-colored Cut-worm 205 



Brtickus 98 



" pisi 254 



Bucculatrix Cocoons 76 



" Larva, Wandering habit 

 of 50 



Bucculatrix ambrositrella 50 



" potni/oliella... . .23, 50, 76 



" thtdella 50 



Buckwheat for destroying Insects . . 48 



Bxg&l' Peas 254 



Bug injuring Box-Elder 163 



Buffalo-fly 191 



" -moth 53 



Buprestid(E ._ 97, 155 



Burning over, as preventive of the 



Army Worm 214 



Biitalis cerealella 99 



Butterfly Larva injurious to Cotton 



Squares 201 



" Tongue 149 



Butterflies at Sea 74 



'^ caught by the Tongue. . . 75 



" in Iowa 236 



" Migrations of 100 



" Pupation of 162 



" Sexual coloration in 74 



Cabbage Butterfly 

 Fly. 



Maggot 



Worm 22,55, 



" " parasite 



" " affected by Pyre- 



thrum Powder .. . 



" " Remedy for 



Cabbages injured by Beetles 



Cactus opuntia 



Caddis-worms, Carnivorous habits of 



Caecidotea microcephala 80 



stygia 37,79, 80 



Calandra rcuiotipunctata 50 



Caliichrovta splendidutn 239 



Callidiuut antennatutn 238 



" variabile 2:J8 



CaUidryas 126, 164 



eubule 103 



" senna 226 



Callimorpha fulvicosta 201 



lecontei .201, 216 



Calliphora vomitoria 203 



Callosaniia promcthca 132 



Calofnicrus 132 



Cahpteniis bivittatus 220 



" clypeatus 220 



difft-rentialis 196, 220 



" femur-rubrtim 220 



"■ Junius 219 



" robusius 220 



spretus. . 73, 220, 225, 279, 296 



turnbulli 219 



CaioptervA- 196 



Calosoma calidutn 233 



"■ mdniliaiutn 108 



" obsoietum 108 



" scrutator 229 



" tcpidum 265 



Cambarus bartonii 38 



"■ pcUucidus 38 



Cambridge Entomological Club. 102, 104 



Camnula pellucida 251, 279 



Campodca 34. 79, 261, 262 



" cookei 79 



fragilis 199 



Canker Worm 42, 180 



Canna fed upon by Hesperid Larva:. 239 



Cannajhiccida 229 



Cafitharis nuttalii 108 



Carabidae fed upon by Bluebirds. . . 



204, 216 



Carabus palustris 217 



tmdatus 108 



Carnivorous habits of Caddis-worms . 176 

 " propensity of Plant-feeders 300 



Carpet-beetle .53 



Carpocapsa pomonana 99 



Pomonella 23, 125, 263 



Cassia 102 



Catalogues and Monographs of In- 

 sects 78 



Catalogus Coleopterorum^ by Har- 

 old and Gemmmger 199 



Caterpillar, Romance of a Ill, 134 



Catops 36, 37 



Cattle-flies 99 



Cave Fauna in Jamaica 30 



Cccidojnyia 98 



' ' carboni/era 278 



*' destructor 137 



'' nigra 99 



'* pseudacaciae 60 



" robinicE 60, 61 



Cecidotnyia iritici 99 



'' viiis-potnum 239 



Cedar-beetle 107 



Cfitis iexana 238, 271 



Cenopis 7-eticulata na 14 



Cerambycidse, Food habits of.. .237, 370 



Cerasus carolinensis 08, 77 



Cctonia aurata 50 



inda 285 



Ceutorhyiichus 97 



Chactotnium 40 



Chani(Frops palmetto 239 



Chalcididae 393 



Chalcis ovata 94 



Changes in the Mouth-parts and 

 Legs of Leaf-mining Lepidopter- 



ous Larvae 355 



C/ia riessa pilosa 237 



Chauiio^nathus pensylvanicus^ 



Early history of 349 



Chauliognathus pensylvanicus^ 



Disease of Larvae of 277 



Cheli/er ca ncroides 204 



Chinch-bug 46, 75. 77, 85 



'^ affected by temperature 



and rainfall 240 



'' Amount of injury caused 



by 46 



Bulletin on 123 



" Immature stages of 85 



" in Iowa and Minnesota, 206 



" Its Winter Habits 85 



'* Periodicity in its increase 240 



Chilocorus biziulucrus 132, 204 



Larva of .... 132 



Cliilonionas 79 



Ch ion ductus 239 



Cli ionobas 286 



Ch ironomus 130 



Cfitaenius totnentosns 216, 217 



Chlo7'ops 99 



Chraniesus hicoriiE 237 



Chrysalides dug up in Cotton field.. 129 

 " supposed to be those of 



Aletia 108 



Chrysatitkenntm Icucantheinuin. . . 151 

 Chrysobothris femorata [typ. err,] 173 



Chrysojucla luultipunctata 108 



Chrysouiphaius Jicus 267, 268 



Chrysopa rujilabris 391 



Chtkonius abeillei 84 



'* brevintanus 84 



" cephalotes 84 



incertus 84 



packardi 37,79,83, 84 



" speiceus 84 



Cicada affected by Fungus 148 



" canicularis 167 



" septevtdecim . . . .27, 148, 178, 203 

 " " in Colorado.... 77 



" " in Iowa 25 



in Ohio.... 226, 227 

 " Seventeen and thirteen year 



year broods of 172 



'• tredeciin 148 



Cicadula 73 



'* exitiosa 72, 78 



Cicindela lecontei 13 



lepida 108 



' punciulata 250 



" purpurea 108 



"■ " var. Auduboni 108 



" repanda 78 



Cioidae 297 



Cis /uscipes 297 



Circular scale of the Orange 2ti7 



Cirrospilus esurus 94 



Cleonus 68 



" punctiventris 103 



Clisiocampa neustria 99 



Clover-root Beetle 180 



Borer 108, 179, 180 



" " in Genesee Co., 



N. V 227 



Weevil .^. 108 



Clydonopteron tccomae 286,287, 288 



Clytus robintae 60 



Cnethocainpa pityocampa. 99 



Coccinella 98 



h-notata 108 



Cochineal Insect 112 



Cochylis roscrana 99 



Cockroaches affected by Pyrethrum 



Powder 194 



" endocranium of 125 



Codling Moth 22 



" " Destruction of 222 



Colaphus ater 98 



Calaspis flavida 243 



