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INDEX. 
Bees, prophetic of rain, xiv. 33 
the queen, xv. 531 
quotation from Virgil respecting, 
xiv. 34 ; xv. 532 
remark of Aristotle respecting, 
xiv. 80 
respiration of, xv. 537 
sensation of, xiv. 103 
sense of touch in, xv. 538 
sex of working, xv. 544 
best situation for, xv. 555 
sting of, xv. 389, 531 
taste of, xv. 537 
temperature developed by, xiv. 
75 
use of antennse of, xiv. 44 
utility of, xiv. 120 
wings of, xiv. 16 
the working, xv. 530 
Beetle, black, xv. 187 
common burying, organs of smell 
of, xiv. 63 
senses in the eye of a, xiv. 48 
Beetles burying, why called, xiv. 393 
frequent the snake-root and 
staphelia, xiv. 60 
Belostoma, xv. 222 
marginata, xv. 248 
Belus, ( Schcen .) xv. 54 
Belyta, ( Jur .) xv. 368 
Bembecides, ( Lat .) xv. 376 
Bembidion, description of, xiv. 240. 280 
Beris, (Lat.) xv. 699. 7^7 
Berosus, xiv. 431 
Bethylus, (Lat.) xv. 367 
Berytus, (Fab.) of what composed, xv. 
241 
Bibio, (Geoff.) xv. 689 
(Fab.) xv. 695 
Biblis, (Fab.) xv. 589 
Biches, what called in French, xiv. 500 
Bitoma, (Herbs.) xv. 86 
Bipartiti, description of, xiv. 197 
Bithynus, (Leach) xv. 167 
Bittacus, (Lat.) xv. 298 
Blaps, xiv. 552. 567 
(Fab.) xiv. 553. 559 
clathrata, xiv. 556 
gages, xiv. 553 
glabra, xiv. 559 
laevigata, xiv. 553 
mortisaga, xiv. 553 
punctata, xiv. 556 
sulcata, xiv. 553. 568 
tibialis, xiv. 554 
tibidens, xiv. 558 
voice of, xiv. 76 
Blatta, (Lin.) xv. 171. 192 
ccecum of, xv. 180 
Blatta acervorum, xv. 175 
Americana, xv. 172 
Germanica, xv. 172 
gigantea, xv. 185, 186 
Lapponica, xv. 172 
Orientalis, xv. 172. 187 
rugicollis, xv. 187 
Blattae, xv. 184 
Blapsides, whence named, xiv. 551 
Blaptinus, (Deg.) xiv. 558 
Blastanus, (Hoff.) xv. 30 
Blepharis of M. Sevoille, xv. 190 
elegans, xv. 190 
Blethisa, description of, xiv. 238 
Blue meat-fly, ovoviparous, xiv. 77 
Bocydium, (Lat.) xv. 225 
Bolboceras Australasiae, xiv. 465 
Bilbergii, xiv. 508 
(Kirby) xiv. 465. 508 
Boletophagus xv. 9 
(Fab.) xv. 5 
cornutus, xv. 9 
Bolitophila, (Hoff.) xv. 687 
Bombardiers of M. Latreille, xiv. 266 
Bombidium, description of, xiv. 240 
Bombus, xv. 567 
lapidarius, xv. 568 
(Lat.) xv. 388 
Bombyces, the, xv. 679 
antennse of, xiv. 76 
Bombycites, xv. 605 
Bombylii, the, xv. 753 
Bombylius, (Lin.) xv. 692 
proper, (Aleig.) xv. 693 
Bombyx, xv. 602 
abietis, xv. 609 
anachoreta, xv. 609 
antiqua, xv. 610 
antiqua, represented by Kirby 
and Spence, xiv. 43 
Atlas, where found, xiv. 96 
betulifolia, xv. 606 
Bucephala, xv. 609 
caja, xv. 611 
caja, represented by Kirby and 
Spence, xiv. 42 
Cecropia, xv. 605 
chrysorrhsea, xv. 611 
compressa, xv. 613 
coryli, xv. 609 
cyllopoda, xv. 615 
dispar, xv. 609 
illicifolia, xv. 606 
Jacobese, xv. 612 
luna, xv. 605 
mori, xv. 607- 679 
mylitta, xv. 605 
Neustria, xv. 608 
populifolia, xv. 606 
