381 



Australian Scymnus establislied and described i 

 California, art., 127-128. 



m., 108, 



Bacteria.', attackinj;- parsnip webv 



40. 

 Bacterial diseases of insects, 70. 

 Bag worm, injurious in Kansas, 110. 

 Bairstow. S. D., on fruit insects, rev., 295. 

 Baltimore oriole eating Sphinx catalpse, 350. 

 Banks, Nathan, Synop. Cat. and Bibliog. of Neu- 



ropteroid insects of N. A., rev., 363. 

 Baridiua ? sp. attacking cabbage in England, lu., 



296. 

 Bark-beetle, destructive pine, damage to forests 

 by, art., 187-189. 

 fruit, parasite reared with, 250. 

 spruce, believed to have been destroyed by 

 enemies, 188. 

 Bark-louse, new, on orange, 202. 



oyster-shell, in Tasmania, ref., 216. 

 Bedbug, transmitter of contagion, 210. 

 Bee, honey, a tropical, corr., 258. 

 Bees, advantages in suppressing swarms, 230. 

 advantages of the Langdon non-swarming sys- 

 tem with, 234. 

 artificial swarming of, practiced by Greeks, 



230. 231. 

 automatic swarm-hivers for, 231. 

 control of swarming of, 230. 

 desire to swarm removed, 232. 

 effects of spraying on, art., 121-123. 

 tield-lbrce of two hives work in one, 233, 234. 

 Langdon non-swarmer for, described, 233. 

 Langdon non-swarming system tested, 235. 

 non-swarming, strains of, 231. 

 number of colonies one can care for under 



Langdon system, 234. 

 parasitism of, 208. 

 preventing loss of swarms, 232. 

 preventing or limiting swarming of, 231. 

 removal of queen-cells to prevent swarming, 



avoided, 234. 

 selection of breeding-stock facilftatod by non- 

 swarming system, 235. 

 self-hivers for, 232. 



swarming disposition may disappear, 235. 

 "s warming-fever" of, removed, 235. 

 swarming of, how incited, 232. 



wholly prevented, 234. 

 watching for swarms avoided, 234. 

 Bee-hives, bars used by Greeks, 230, 231. 

 basket used by Greeks, 230, 231. 

 I,angdon uons warming attachment for,232. 

 Bee-keeping, in South Dakota, ref.. 5. 

 sting, curious case of, 268. 

 .stings and rheumatism, 353. 

 stings, potassium iodide for. ref., 62. 

 jBeetles, myrmecophilous, note on, 143. 

 Belvosia— a study, art., 238-240. 

 Belvosia bifasciata, supposed sexes represent dis- 

 tinct species, 239. 

 leucopyga, characters of, 240. 

 Bernardia hemisphcericum. on Chrysanthemum, 

 mm., 121. 

 hemisphcericum, see also Lecanium. 



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Berne, or bicho berne, hominivorous bot., :!. 

 Bethune, C. J. S., rev. of address by, 62. 

 Beutenmiiller, William, m., 336. 

 Bibiosp., in wheat fields, 116. 

 Bill-bugs, in Iowa, 112. 



in Iowa bull., ref., 66. 

 Biologii^ notes on New Mexico insects, art., 37-40. 

 Biology of cattle tick, summary of, 294. 

 Biorhiza forticornis, Catolaccus sp., from galls 



of, 343. 

 Birch, Bucculatrix of, abundant near Ottawa in 



1892, 289. 

 Bisulphide of carbon against Angoumois grain- 

 moth, 327. 



against gophers and moles, 293. 



against grain pests, corr., 257. 



against hen-lice, 361. 

 Blanchard, Dr. Raphael, rev. of article by, 2. 

 Blastophaga psenes, introduction into Australia 



ref., 63. 

 Blatta, sp. damaging books, 353. 

 Blissus leucopterus, in Kansas, 115. 

 Blister beetles, abundance during 1892, 127. 



apparent cross-mating of, 261. 



habits of, 260. 



on beans, 126. 

 Blister mite, pear-leaf, ref., 62. 

 Blow-flies, attacking a boy, 265. 

 Blue-bottle fly, transmitter of contagion, mm., 



210. 

 Blue-gum, supposed gall mites on, 349. 

 Blue jay, enemy of boll worm, 242. 

 Boll worm, cotton, bacterial diseases of, 70. 



can be destroyed by irrigation, 80. 



diseases of, 242. 



divisional bulletin on, notice, 218. 



food-plants of moth, 242. 



habits of, 241. 



hibernation of, 243. 



host plants of, 241. 



in Mississippi, observations on, art., 240-243. 



in Oklahoma bull. ; ref., 148. 



natural enemies of, 242. 



see also Heliothis armiger. 



trap crop for, 48. 

 Bomycid, curious chrysalis of, 131 . 

 Book louse, ticking of, 60. 



worms, ravages of, 353. 

 Boophilus bovis, notes on, 267. 

 Bordeaux mixture, as insecticide, 74. 



in sprayed fruit, tests for, ref., 3. 

 Borers in fig trees, notes on, 365. 

 Bot-flies, infesting man, note, 2, 3. 

 Bot-fly, infesting man, 58, 265, 266. 



infesting the cottontail, 317. 



is it preyed on by English sparrow? 342. 

 Bot, horse, in Louisiana, ref., 5. 



in necks of cats, ref., 66. 



man-infesting, in Brazil, 265. 



ox, cattle hides damaged by, 137. 

 in Louisiana, ref., 5. 



rabbit, correspondence on, 137, 138. 

 Brachyscelidae, review of paper on, 360. 

 Bracon anthonomi, parasite of Anthonomus sig- 

 natus, 182. 

 ap. n., description of, 185. 



