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Bees, solitary, " Upholsterers " ........ vol. iii. 80 



- stingless . .......... i- 156 



- thigh-baskets of ....... i. 199, 205 



- workers ............. i. 253 



Beetles, aquatic . . ... ..... . i. 293, 299 



- dung-resorting and carrion-feeding, uses of, as scavengers . . iii. 124 



- final transformations of ......... ii. 30 



Birch-bark Caterpillars, and Gilded Moths from ..... iii. 271 



Birds that prey on insects . . ........ i. 169 



Blight, the white, on apple-trees ........ i. 183 



Blight-insects, and errors concerning ...;.... i. 173 



- origin and propagation of ........ i. 173 



Blood-worms (larvae of Chirononws phimosus) ...... i. 71 



Blue Butterflies (genus Polyommatus) ...... ii. 134, iii. 265 



- caterpillars of ... . . ...... ii. 135 



Boat of eggs constructed by the female Gnat ...... i. 62 



B&nibyx Mori (Silkworm) .......... i. 162 



Book of Nature a book of symbols . . ...... ii. 292 



Book of Nature, how to read it ......... i. 22 



Books on Entomology . . . ..... i. 4, 15, 17, 21, 22, 27 



Borer, or Brad-awl, of the common Ichneumon ..... iii. 329 



Bostrichus typographies (Printer Beetle) ....... ii. 163 



Bougeaut, Father, speculation on brute existence .-.-.. . i. 291 

 Bracelet of Eggs . . . . ........ i. 95 



Breathing-organs of Insects ......... i. 204 



Brimstone Butterfly (Gonopterix RJiamni] . . . i. 107, 316, ii. 119 



caterpillar of ........... ii. 120 



- its resemblance to a floral product . . ... . . ii. 120 



Brimsone Moth (Rwnia cratcegata) ........ ii. 316 



caterpillar of, "Walking Branch" . . . ... . ii. 286 



Brown-tail Moth, caterpillar of .... ..... i. 269 



Bryant, lines by, on the Mosquito . . . . . . . i. 67 



Buff-tip Moth (Pygcera BucephaM), caterpillar of . . . . . ii. 103 



Bug and Bugbear .... . . . . . . . iii. 210 



Bug-catcher, the Masked (Reduvius personatus) ..... iii. 211 



Bugs of Field and Garden, or Plant-bugs (Pentatomidce, &c.) . . . iii. 212 



- Blue, of China, and of England (Pentatoma, ccerulea) ... iii. 214 



Ohrysomelidce . ...... iii. 267 



Bur-dock, seed-heads of, appropriated by Moth Caterpillars ... ii. 238 



Burnished-brass Moth .......... ii. 316 



Burying Beetle (Necroplwrus vespillo), description of .... iii. 118 



- its practice of interring animal remains . . . . . . iii. 118 



