GENERAL INDEX. 



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Blastobasis, sp., preying >ipon Chionaspis, m., IV, 



290. 

 Blastophaga, on fig, II, 197. 



desirability of importing, III, 408. 

 pseues, introducliou of, into California, IV, 94, 

 art., 128-129. 



relation to Smyrna fig, IV, 374. ^ 



introduction into Australia, ref., V, (33. 

 Blatta germanica. {See Ectobia germanica.) 

 orieutalis. (See Periplaneta orientalis.) 

 sp., damaging books, V, 353. 

 Blattariai of Australia and New Zealand, VI, 43. 

 Blattidiv, oviposition of, II, 224. 



of Indiana, rev., VI, 341. 

 Bk-pharocerid larva-, remarks on, III, 357. 

 Blight, American, ref., Ill, 3GG. 

 Blister beetle, black, on asters. III, 416. 

 Blister beetles, nomenclature of, II, 288. 



in New York report, ref.. Ill, 252. 



on cabbage, IV, 77. 



in Texas, IV, 395. 



on beans, V, 126. 



abundance during 1892, V, 127. 



habits of, V, 200. 



apparent cross-mating of, V, 2tU. 



western, abundant in Canada, V, 289. 



handsome, VI, 30. 



remedies against, VI, 37. 



in New Jersey, VII, 196. 



{See also Epicauta, Macrobasis, etc.) 

 Blissus leucopterus, in Nebraska, IV, 133. 

 in Kansas, V, 115. 



{Seeaho Chinch bug.) 

 Blood-sucking cone-nose, biteof, 1,347; II, 100; III, 



460 ; IV, 273. 

 Blowflies, attacking a boy, V, 265. 



Lownes's monograph of, rev., VI, 278. 

 Bluebird, suggested against red spider, IV, 278. 

 Bluebottle fly, transmitter of contagion, mm., V, 210. 

 Blue jay, enemy of boll worm, V, 242. 

 Boatman, Notonecta feeding on, II, 201. 

 Bogus yucca moth = Prodoxus decipiens. 

 Boll worm, in Mississippi, ',17,217; 11,283; III, 

 338 ; m., IV, 34 ; art., V, 240-243 ; VI, 324. 

 in Texas, 1,320; 11,20,317. 

 in California, I, art., 331-332. 

 in Michigan, II, 42. 

 blackbirds destroying, II, 47. 

 injuring poppies in India, II, 204. 

 investigation of. III, 92. 

 arsenites against, III, 123. 

 diseases of, III, 197, 333: V, 70, 242. 

 in Florida bulletin, ref.. Ill, 256. 

 bulletins on, notice of. III, 307; V, 148, 218. 

 injury attributed to, due to other insects, m., 



IV, 17. 

 in corn, in New Mexico, m., IV, 26. 

 in Nebraska, IV, 133. 

 treatment of, IV, 208 ; V, 48, 80 ; VI, 94, 154, 1G7, 



109. 

 in India, ref., IV, 296. 

 early reference to, art., IV, 326. 

 article on, V, 240-243. 

 a Southern species, VI, 154. 



{See also Heliothis armiger.) 

 Boletotherus bifurcus, in Polyporus, III, 335. 

 Bombardier beetles, abundance of, III, 411. 



Bombus, dead from unknown cause, III, 87. 

 species introduced in New Zealand, IV, 157. 

 wax-producing organs of, VI, 3i 0. 

 horealis, habits of, I, 295. 

 fervidus, habits of, I, 29.5. 

 virginicus, apparent intoxication »(, III, 431. 

 Bombyeid, curious chrj-salis of, V, 131. 

 Bombycid.-e, taken by electric lamps at Poughkeepsie, 



N. v., list of, art.. Ill, 322. 

 Bombyliidiv, new species of, rev., IV, 158. 



parasitism of, A'l, 202, 204. 

 Bombyx arracanensis, silkworm of India, ref., II, 

 388. 

 crajsi, silkworm of India, ref., II, 383. 

 mori, crossing with wild species, 1, 120. 



silk compared with A. yama-mai, I, 270. 

 fortunatus, parasitised by Trycolypa, 11,204. 



in India, ref., II. 388. 

 sinensis, silkworm of India, ref., II, 388. 

 lanestri.s, seven years in the pupal stage, ILl, 33. 

 piui, reference to article, III, 36. 

 Bone beetle, in Chile , 1, 154. 

 Book louse, ticking of, V, 60. 

 Bookworms, ravages of, V, 353; VI, 265. 

 Boliphilus, genus erected for Ixodes bovis, IV, 233. 



bovis, notes on, V, 267. 

 Bootettix argentatu3 in New Mexico, A' 1, 30. 

 Boots, Sitodrepa panicea damaging, IV, 403. 

 Bordeaux mixture, as an insecticide, jtc. Ill, 221, 

 361,364; IV, 2, 238, 284 ; V,3,74; VI, 211 ; VII, 

 124. 

 Borer, celery, ref., VI, 211. 

 Borers on blackberry, art., IV, 27. 



squash, habits and remedies against, art., IV, 30. 

 notes on a few, art., IV, 64, 67. 

 in fig trees, notes on, V, 365. 

 in British Columbia, ref., VI, 3. 

 wire netting protection against, VII, 191. 

 Bostrichus dispar = Xyleborus dispar, II. 145. 

 jesuita, in Australia, ref., IV, 294. 

 (Tomicus) typographus, destroyed by Tillus 

 (Clerus) formicarius, VI, 125. 

 Bot, or bot-fly, emasculating, art., I, 214-210 ; note, 

 VI, 46. 

 infesting hogs, III, 161,401. 

 infesting man, art., 1, 76-80 ; IV, 275, .309, 310 ; V, 



2, 58, 205, 266. 

 is it prej'ed upon by the English sparrow ? V, 342. 

 of cat, ref., V, 06; VI, 327. 



of horse, II, 175 ; ref., Ill, 366 ; ref., IV, 308; V, 5. 

 of ox, II, 150 ; ref., Ill, 4, 5, 25, 432 ; V, 5, 137. 

 of rabbit (supposed). III, 21 ; V, 137, 138, 317, 

 360. 



{See aUo Ox bot, etc.) 

 Botis harveyana on greenhouse plants, II, 277. 



penitalis, parasitized by Bracon xanthostigma, 

 II, 340. 

 Bottle bees = Melipona, VI, 360. 

 Box-elder bug, in Utah, I, 325. 



in Nebraska, ref., T, 325; II, 258. 

 in Kansas, III, 72. 



attacking fruit in Washington, IV, 273. 

 a household pest, IV, 400. 

 plant-louse, in Nebraska report, ref., II, 258. 

 leaf-roller, in Colorado, IV, 355. 

 Brachinus sp., abundance of. III, 411. 

 Bracon agrili, parasitic on Agrilus fulgeus, II, 348. 



