INDEX. 
163 
Atropos divinatoria, 426. 
Bacon beetle, 383, 534,1040. 
Bacterial disease, 761. 
Bagworm, 280, 370,421, 518, 944. 
Balaninus nasicus, 1395. 
rectus, 841. 
Bark-beetle, 332. 
-lice, 63, 82, 151, 186. 767, 936, 939, 1169, 1177, 
1484-1497,1663.1666. 
apple-tree, 7, 608,1566. 
lemon, 84. 
-louse, oyster-sbell, 1495. 
willow, 365. 
Barley insects, 846. 
Barn beetle, 306. 
Basket worm, 279, 280, 370, 944,1211. 
Bean insects, 846,1339. 
weevil, 52, 288, 314, 346, 584, 957,1459,1523. 
Beans, blister beetle on, 1204. 
Bedbug destroyer, 611. 
Bee moth, 1241,1260. 
slayer, 216, 521. 
Beech insects, 859, 892, 
tree blights, 467, 521. 
Beet insects, 390. 
-leaf Antliomyia, 370. 
Beetles, 942. 
food of, 1386,1387,1388,1390,1394,1395. 
Belostoma, piscivorous, 1355,1356. 
Bemhecia marginata, 437, 900,1242. 
Bemhidium 4-maculatum, 442, 521. 
Beneficial insects, 731,1008,1451,1454,1646. 
Betula insects, 892. 
Bibio albipennis, 205, 261, 426, 1612. 
Bibliography of locusts, 570, 571. 
Birch insects, 859. 
Birds, food relations of, 1455,1517. 
and insects, 8,9,13, 86,103, 610, 786,970,1080, 
1169,1240,1345,1363. 
Bisulphide of carbon, 370,1100. 
Black blister beetle, 339. 
long sting, 353. 
walnut insects, 859. 
warts, 1617. 
Blackberry galls, 1665. 
insects, 1108. 
Blackbirds, 801. 
Blatta sp., 632. 
Blissus leucopterus, 4, 5,38, 46,47, 48, 50, 55, 71, 91, 
93, 96,169, 366,367, 368, 399, 425, 426, 559, 561, 562, 
583, 607,622, 655, 656, 684, 688, 691, 727, 732, 822, 846, 
881, 890, 907, 910, 917, 920, 1089, 1114, 1163, 1164, 
1168, 1178, 1193, 1242, 1261, 1262, 1277, 1278, 1279, 
1282, 1288, 1292, 1297, 1302, 1303, 1312, 1361, 1362, 
1383, 1416, 1420, 1426, 1428, 1430, 1508, 1546, 1574, 
1575,1583,1616,1651. 
Blister beetles, 175,195, 278, 508, 722,1033,1282. 
on beans, 1204. 
black, 339. 
on potato, 1570. 
mites, 809. 
Blue caterpillars, 92. 
Boll rot, 1154,1232. 
worm, 1232,1311. 
Bombycidaj larvae, 159,1309. 
New Tork, 159. 
Bombycidae, transformations of, 159. 
Bomhyx graminis = Leucania unipuncta. 
Bookworms, 1176. 
Books on insects, 24,36,1144 
Borage insects, 1437. 
Borer, how to expel, 928,1213. 
Borers, 2, 703, 807,836, 969,1027,1287. 
Borens brumalis, 426. 
nivoriundus, 426. 
Bostrichus bicaudatus = Amphicerus hicaudatus. 
Botflies. 12. 
horse. 721. 
ox, 721. 
turtle, 1352. 
Box-elder insects, 809, 839. 
mite 819 
Brachypeplus magnus, 91,719. 
Brachys aeruginosa, 842. 
Brachytarsus variegatirs, 426. 
Bradycellus rupestris, 1390. 
Brephos infans, 207. 
Bridge insects. 714. 
Brochymena sp., 27, 30. 
Bruchus fabae = obtectus. 
granarius, 1282. See also , B. obsoletus. 
obsoletus = obtectus. 
obtectus, 52, 288, 314, 346, 838, 839, 842, 846, 
957,1282,1431,1459,1523. 
pisi=pisorum. 
pisornm, 526, 846, 887,901, 915,1080,1082, 
1116,1117,1282,1336,1458,1561. 
scutellaris (chinensis), 201. 
sp., 584. 
varicornis= obtectus. 
Brush for destroying caterpillars, 914. 
Bryobia pratensis, 294, 323, 521. 
Bryoscripta ulmicola= Colopha ulmicola. 
Bucculatrix pomifoliella, 265, 319, 370,400, 501, 726, 
1419,1464. 
thuiella, 839. 
Buffalo carpet beetle, 1582. 
gnat, 386,1425. 
tree-hopper, 575. 
Bufo, food habits of, 992. 
Buprestis harrisii= Clirysobothris harrisii. 
rusticorum, 846. 
striata, 1113. 
Burrowing beetle, 215. 
Butalis cerealella=Sitotroga cerealella. 
Buthus carolinianus, 1221. 
Butterflies, 1244,1288. 
calendar for 1869, 153; 1870,154. 
Califorian, 207. 
larvae of, 1309. 
noxious, 670. 
Butternut insects, 859. 
Byturus unicolor, 838,1048. 
Cabbage aphis, 223,1638. 
hug, Harlequin, 222, 282, 370, 1219, 1287, 
1323. 
Texan, 136. 
butterfly, 141, 146, 561, 612, 757, 993, 1377, 
1378. 
European, 1301. 
pot herb, 1301. 
Southern, 1106,1301. 
