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INDEX 



Asdepias, 203, *204, *2O5 



Asecodes, 257 



Ashmead, on Hymenoptera of Hawaii, 305 



Assembling, 81 



Atelura, *2%2 



Atemeles, *28i 



Atta, 275, *277 



Attacus, 21 



Auditory hairs, 85; organs, 85, *86 



Audouin, 345 



Aughey, on insectivorous birds, 224, 376 



Auricle, *2io, 211 



Austen, 378 



Austral region, 310 



Australian realm, 310 



Automeris, 64" 



Ayers, on abdominal appendages, 53; 365 



Balancers, 46 



Baldwin, 381 



Ballowitz, 364 



Banks, 339, 386 



Barlow, 360 



Barriers, 302 



Barrows, 382 



Basch, 344, 351, 356 



Basement membrane, *5g, *63, *68, *g6 



Basiconicum, 75, *j6 



Basidium, *2oi 



Basilarchia, mimicry, *i84, 191; protective 

 resemblance, 180 



Bates, on mimicry, 185; 373, 382, 383 



Batesian mimicry, 186 



Bateson, 372 



Beal, on food of robin, 222, 377 



Beddard, 371, 373, 384 



Bees, color sense of, 91; hairs, *6o 



Beetles, sounds of, 82 



Behavior of insects, 283 



Bellesme, de, 356 



Belostoma, digestive system of, *g6; pre- 

 daceous, 153, 215 



Belt, on leaf-cutting ants, 277; 383 



Benacus, "13; caecum, 96; mouth parts, *32j 

 predaceous, 153 



Beneden, van, 379 



Beneficial insects, 326 



Benton, on honey bee, 267; 376 



Berlese, on phagocytosis, 149; 340, 343 



Bernard, H. M., 342 



Bernard, M., 366 



Bertkau, on hermaphroditism, 115; 363 



Bessels, 363 



Bethe, on behavior of ants, 274; 381 



Bethune, 337 



Beyer, 348 



Binet, 353 



Birches, insects of, 195 



Birds, insectivorous, 221, 223, 226; regulat- 

 ing insect oscillations, 225 



Bitiacomorpha, *no, 156 



Bittacus, *i3, *4i 



Black-flies, 215 



Blackiston, 373 



Blanc, 344, 357 



Blanchard, 352, 358, 378 



Blandford, 377 



Blastoderm, *ii9 



Blastophaga, 336 



Blatta, muscles of, *68; respiration, *m 



Blattidae, 8; spiraclfes of, 52 



Blind insects, 27 



Blissus leucopterus, distribution of, 316; 



losses through, 325; food of, 329 

 Blochmann, 365 

 Blood, corpuscles, *ioi; course of, *ioo, *ioi; 



function, 101 

 Bluebird, food of, 223 

 Boas, 368 

 Bobretzky, 365 

 Bolton, 339 

 Bombus, antenna of, *26; general account, 



269; larva, *i3i; mimicry, *i93; respira- 

 tion, *m; taste cup, *79 

 Bombyx mori, Malpighian tubes of, *99; 



mid intestine, *g6; oenocytes, *io5; silk 



glands, *67, *68 

 Bordas, 351, 357 

 Boreal region, 310 

 Borgert, 350 

 Borner, 343 

 Bot flies, 216 

 Boyce, 378 

 Brachinus, 65 

 Braconidae, 255 



Brain, *72, *73; functions of, 73 

 Branchial respiration, 156 

 Brandt, A., 365 

 Brandt, E., 352 

 Brauer, on classification, 7; types of larvae, 



130; 341, 346, 362, 367 

 Braula, 255 

 Braun, 377, 378 

 Breed, on phagocytosis, 149 

 Breitenbach, 344 

 Breithaupt, 344 

 Briant, 344 

 Bridges, 374 

 Brongniart, on Carboniferous insects, 318, 



3215385 

 Brooks, 343 



Bruce, 248, 249, 250; 378 

 Bruchophagus, *i28 

 Brues, 378, 380 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl, 372 

 Bugnion, 151, 368 

 Bumble bees, general account, 269 

 Bureau of Entomology, 336 

 Burgess, 33; 344, 347, 358 

 Burmeister, 340 

 Bursa copulatrix, *ns 

 Buthus, *2 

 Butler, 373 



Biitschli, 352, 363, 365 

 Butterflies, eclosion of, 140, *i4i; fossil, *323 



Cabbage butterfly (see Pieris rapes) 

 Caeca, gastric, *93, *94, 95 

 Cacilius, *97, *98 

 Caecum, *95, *g6 



