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Bean weevil, 587", 590\ 602\ 

 Beans, Bruchus obtectus injuring, 

 587°. 



Bed bug hunter, masked (kissing 

 bug), 534 J , 538 9 , 557 6 , 562 9 , 5S5 9 , 

 588 9 , 597°, 614 9 . 

 Bed bugs, 585 8 , 586 1 . 

 Beech tree, Neoclytus erythrocepha- 



lus reared from, 556 5 . 

 Bees, 588 1 . 



bumble, 558 5 , 566 8 , 588 1 , 600 5 . 

 honey, 566 8 , 587", 600 8 . 

 humble, see Bees, bumble, 

 large carpenter, 600 6 . 

 Beets, Mamestra picta injurious to, 

 5S4 5 . 



sugar, insects injurious to: 

 Chelymorpha argus, 602\ 

 Systena frontalis, 538 2 , 583 s , 

 602 5 . 



bellona, Brenthis, 607 s . 

 Belostoma americanum, 615 2 . 

 Benacus griseus, 615\ 

 Beneficial insects, 587 8 -88 B , 588 8 , 598 s . 

 Berberick, J., insects from, 615*. 

 Betula alba, see Birch, white. 



lenta. see Birch, black. 



lutea, see Birch, yellow, 

 betulaecolens, Callipterus, 556 7 , 616'. 

 betuleti, Agrilus, 590 4 . 

 bicolor, Sehirus, 613 7 . 

 bifurcus, Boletotherus, 602 3 . 

 Bigsbee, John, report from, 570 3 . 

 bilinearia, Endropia, 612 7 . 

 bimaculata, Oberea, 563 9 , 569 4 , 603 8 . 

 binotata, Enchenopa, 569 s , 615 9 . 

 Biologfc collection, exhibition of, ad- 

 vocated, 575 8 . 

 bipunctata, Adalia, 556 8 , 595 2 , 605 9 . 

 Birch aphis, 556 s . 

 Birch borer, bronze, 582 e , 60S 3 . 

 Birch tree, insects injurious to: 



Agrilus anxius, 556 2 , 5S2 7 , 590 4 , 

 605 2 . 



Callipterus betulaecolens, 556 7 , 

 616 8 . 



Birch tree, black, Agrilus anxius in- 

 festing, 557 9 -58 2 . 



cut leaved, insects injurious to: 

 borer (V Agrilus anxius), 563°. 

 unknown insect (possibly Agri- 

 lus anxius), 569 7 . 



white, insects injurious to: 

 Agrilus anxius, 558 2 , 5S2 T . 

 Aspidiotus ancylus, 617*. 



yellow, Agrilus anxius infesting, 

 557 9 -58 2 . 



Birds in relation to insect abund- 

 ance, 544 7 , 553 2 , 561 3 , 564 9 , 566 4 , 

 56S 5 , 596 1 . 



Bittersweet, Enchenopa binotata de- 

 stroying, 569°, 615 9 . 



Black fly, large (Tabanus atratus), 

 565 3 . 



Black walnut caterpillar, striped, 

 552 9 . 



Blackberry bushes, Oberea bimacu- 

 lata injuring, 563 9 , 603 s . 

 Blissus leucopterus, 592 3 , 614 J . 

 Blister beetles, 583", 59 7 2 . 



ash gray, 597 2 , 602 1 . 



black, 571 6 . 



striped, 597 a , 597 9 , 602 2 . 

 Bloodgood, Tremain, referred to, 

 560 5 . 



Blue jay, feeding on forest tent cat- 

 erpillar, 544 s . 



Bogue, Virgil, insects from, 616 s ; 

 summary of voluntary reports of, 



566 7 . 



Boletotherus bifurcus, 602 2 . 

 Bombus fervidus, 600 5 . 



virginicus, 600 5 . 

 Bombyx mori, 587 s . 

 Bordeaux mixture cited, 596 5 . 

 borealis, Epilachna, 59l 7 . 

 Borers, 554", 558\ 590 4 , 596 1 . 



round headed, 574 5 , 577*. 

 Bot fly, 606 s . 



boucheanus, Dibrachys, 600 9 . 

 Boutwell, L. E., insects from, 601\ 



