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INDEX. 



Asilus, 606, 606. A. sestuans, 17. A. se- 



riceus, 606. 



A-t;i<i:i torrefacta, 437. 

 A<ter pill-flics, 620. 

 A>teria* butterfly, 265. 

 Attaci, 340. 

 Attacus Atlas, 338, 390. A. Cecropia, 



886. 887, 389. A. Luna, 382 - 384. 



A. Polyphemus, 884, 386. A. Prome- 

 theus, 390, 391. 



Attelabians (Attelabidse), 66. 

 Attelahus analis, 66. A. bipustulatus, 66. 

 Azalea sphinx, 328. 



Babia quadriguttata, 136. 



Bacteria nruinatia, 146. B. phylliua, B. 



nibispinosn, 146. 



Bacunculus femoratus, B. Sayi, 146. 

 Balaninus, 74. 

 Baridius trinotatus, 81. 

 Bark-beetles, 86. 



Bark-lice, 194, 204, 248, 250, 252, 256. 

 Barley injured by insects, 651, 621. 

 Basket worms, 415. 

 Bathvllus skipper, 312. 

 Batia flavifrontella, 494. 

 Bat-ticks, 626. 

 BcaHi-irrass, use of, 57. 

 Beans attacked by insects, 138, 229. 

 Bear-caterpillars, 343, 349. 

 Bee-flies, 603. 

 Bee-moths, 489. 

 I'..-, 512, 614. 



Beeswax devoured by worms, 491. 

 Beetles, 10, 23, 28, 29. 

 Bcllona butterfly, 287. 

 Kinl-flies, 624. 

 Bittacomorpha, 600. 

 Bittacus, 600. 



Blackberry-bush borer, 114. 

 Black fly, 601. 

 Black weevil, 83. 

 Blatta oriental!*, 145. 

 Blrnnocampa, 628. 

 I'.liirlit beetle, 90. 

 Blight of pear-trees, 88. 

 Bli.-trring beetles, 136. 

 Boisiluval's butterfly, 805. 

 Bomboptera, 636. 

 Pnniibyces, 340. 



Boinbylian* (Bombylindae), 603. 

 Bombrlltu leqnalfe, B. major, B. albi- 



pcctu, B fratellus, B. vicinus, 604. 

 Bombyx, 340. B. cossus, 412. B. grata, 



427. B. mori, 880. 

 Bordered skipper, 308. 

 Borers. 46, 92, 331, 410. 

 Bmtrichiaiia (Bostrichidaj), 91. 

 Bot-bees, Bot-flies, 622. 



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Brenthinns (Brenthidse), 67. 

 BrciithiH maxillosus, B. septemtrionis, 



B. septemtrionalis, 68. 

 r.ri/u -kipper, 309. 

 Bruchians (Bruchidae), 62. 



Bruchus pisi, 61, 62. 

 Bud-moths, 480, 482. 

 Bug, chinch, 198; plant, 200; squash, 



194. 



Bups, 193, 194. 

 Bulla, 185. 



Buprestians (Buprestidse), 45, 116. 

 Buprestis characteristica, B. dentipes, 49. 



B. divaricata, 48. B. Drummondi, B. 

 femorata, B. fulvoguttata, 50. B. lu- 

 rida, B. obscura, 49. B. Virginica, 48. 



Butalis, 499, 507. B. cerealella, 506, 509. 



Butterflies, 262, 263 ; four-footed, 279, 

 282. 



Button-wood trees attacked by caterpil- 

 lars, 363, 404 ; by wood-wasps, 537. 



Cabbage butterfly, 270. C. caterpillar, 



270, 451. C. cutworm, 443, 445, 449. 



0. plant-louse, 238. 

 Calandrn, 69, 82. C. granaria, 83. C. 



Oryzffi, ib. 

 Callidium, 99. C. antennatum, C. baju- 



lus, C. violaceum, 100. 

 Callimorpha Carolina, 344. C. Lecontei, 



345. C. militaris, 344. 

 Calliphora vomitoria, 614. 

 Caloptenus, 174. 

 Calosoma scrutator, 470. 

 Camel-crickets, 146. 

 Canephorae, 414. 

 Canker-worm, 461, 470. 

 Cantharides (Cautharididse), 135. 

 Cantharis atrata, 139. C. cinerea, 138. 



C. marginata, 137. C. vittata, 136, 139. 

 Capricorn beetles, 92, 94, 96, 116. 

 Capsns oblineatus. 200. 



Caradrina cubicularis, 453. 



Carolina sphinx, 322. 



Carpenter moths, 412. 



Carpet-moth, 493. 



Carpocapsa Pomonella, 484. 



Carrot-caterpillars, 263. 



Cassida aurichalcea, 122. 



Cassidadae, 121. 



Catalogue, reference to, 32. 



Caterpillars are the young of butterflies 



and moths, 257. C. described, 268. C. 



false, 516. C. food of, 258. C. habits 



of, 269. C. injurious to gardens, 349. 



C. numbers o 267. C. spiny, 284. C. 



transformations of, 5, 260. ' C. wheat, 



462, 465. 

 Cecidomyia, 564, 568, 570, 583. C. cul- 



niicola, 682. C. destructor, 566, 668, 



683. C. Robiniae,567. C. Salicis, 566, 



667. C. Tritici, 453, 666, 687, 592. 

 Cecidomyiadae, 665. 

 Cedar (red), insects attacking, 87. 

 Celtisphinx,328. 

 Cephwemyia ovis, 624. 

 Cephus, 516. C. Pygmoaus, 517. 

 Cerambycidae, 92, 94, 96. 

 Cerambyx, 94. C. cinctus, 97. C. pal- 



liatus, 116. C. violaceus, 100. 



