Part 49

_Ants_, love of their young, i. 364: nests, 476: swarms, ii. 51: language, 59: wars, 68: slaves, 74: milch-cattle or _Aphides_, 87: emigrations, 91: recruits, 92: roads, 97: strength, 99: diversions,103: diseases of, iv. 208.

---- (white), ravages of, i. 244: nests, 506: history, ii. 31: colonies, 34: number of eggs, 36: soldiers, 39: sounds of, 41.

_Aphides._ See _Plant-lice_.

_Apparatus_ for taking and destroying insects, iv. 528.

_Apple_, attacked by insects, i. 199.

_Apricots_, attacked by insects, i. 202.

_Arachnida_, how they differ from insects, iii. 10: their respiration, iv. 60: circulation, 99: liver and intestinal canal, 122.

_Aristotle's_ system of animals, iii. 2: of insects, iv. 432.

_Armadillo_, feeds on locusts, i. 281.

_Armour_ (defensive) of insects, ii. 222.

_Arms_, fore legs why so called, iii. 544.

_Arrows_ (poisoned), how prepared, i. 133.

_Articulations_ of legs, iii. 654, 663, 669, 680.

_Artifices_ (defensive) of insects, ii. 254.

_Aspect_ (defensive) of insects, ii. 221.

_Ass_, remarkable anecdote of, ii. 496. note.

_Attitudes_ (defensive) of insects, ii. 229.

_Aurelia_, i. 65.

_Baits_, (insect) for Fishes, i. 286.

_Barley_, destroyed by insects, i. 173.

_Beans_ and _Peas_, destroyed by insects, i. 175.

_Bee_, carpenter, i. 436: clothier, i. 435: leaf-cutter, 36, 194, 442: mason, 438: poppy, 440.

_Bees_ (hive), affection for their young, i. 376: combs, 481: fables respecting, ii. 120: females, 122: larvæ of _workers_, how turned to _females_, 127: weight and bulk, 126: jealousy and battles of the female or queen, 140: her appearance how retarded, 144: homage paid her, 149: effects produced by the loss of her, 150: sound emitted by her, 383: fecundation, 169; iv. 167: swarms, ii. 158: males, number of, 168: slaughter of, 170: workers, tongue of, 174: wax-pockets, 175: collection of honey and pollen, 175: excursions, 184: scouts, 186: ventilation of their hive, 190: language, 197: anger and battles, 199, 204: enemies, i. 163; ii. 205: temperature, 209, 441; iv. 77: modifications of their instinct, ii. 475: degree of intellect, 489, 507; iv. 32: diseases, 211: kinds of, i. 330.

_Beetle_, pertinacity of one, ii. 232: asparagus, i. 192: bacon, i. 228: bloody-nose, ii. 244, 317: burying, i. 352; iv. 262: darkling, ii. 239: death-watch, i. 36; ii. 381: lily, 257: meal-worm, i. 227: oil, ii. 247: poplar, 242: rhinoceros, iv. 11: rove, i. 228; ii. 234, 241: turnip, i. 187: vine 204; iv. 512.

_Beetles_, blister, i. 38, 315; ii. 224: bombardier, 243; iv. 134, 149: capricorn, i. 235, 302; ii. 387: carnivorous, iv. 138: carrion, ii. 239: dung or pill, i. 351; ii. 231, 254; iii. 441, 455: elastic, ii. 313: herbivorous, iv. 138: knot-grass, 169: petalocerous, iv. 408: lamellicorn, iv. 251, 308, 435: predaceous, i. 271; ii. 317; iv. 401, 418: rove, ii. 234, 241, 302: stag, 221, 224; iv. 197: tiger, iii. 152: timber and labyrinth, i. 212, 235, 452; ii. 232: tortoise, ii. 258: water, i. 271; ii. 359; iii. 121, 455; iv. 263.

_Bile-vessels_ of insects, iv. 109.

_Black-jack_, what, i. 187.

_Blood_, showers of, caused by moths, i. 34: of insects, iv. 85, 97.

_Boatman_ (water), i. 107, 275.

_Bonnet_, iv. 455.

_Book-crab_, iv. 236.

_Books_, attacked by insects, i. 239.

_Bots_, i. 147.

_Boxes_ (store), described, iv. 537.

---- breeding, iv. 553.

_Brain_, _Acarus_ found in, i. 141: of insects, iv. 8.

_Breese_, i. 147.

_Bridle_, spinal, iv. 18.

_Bug_, bed, i. 106: chintz, 171: field, affection for its young, i. 359: harvest, 103: red, 185: water, i. 275; ii. 360: wheel, i. 108.

_Bugs_, galls of, i. 451: their scent, ii. 240.

_Buprestis_ of the ancients, what, i. 155.

_Butcher Bird_, i. 288.

_Butterflies_, blues, iii. 650: coppers, 650: fritillaries, 252, 651: skippers, ii. 301: Trojans and Grecians, iii. 302: mode in which their caterpillars suspend themselves when about to assume the pupa, 206.

_Butterfly_, admiral, iii. 84, 114: Adonis, i. 41; iii. 650: brimstone, 259: cabbage, i. 189; ii. 11; iv. 24, 228: Glanville fritillary, iii. 114: hawthorn, 98: large skipper, ii. 301: mountain, iii. 149: nettle, 252: orange-tip, 253: painted lady, 260: peacock, i. 9; iii. 213: purple emperor or high-flier, iv. 512, 530: silver-washed fritillary, iii. 252: swallow-tail, ii. 242, 291; iii. 212: tortoiseshell, iii. 110.

_Cabbage_ tribe, insect assailants of, i. 189.

_Cabinet_, directions for making, iv. 556.

_Camphor_, how to be used, iv. 559.

_Carrots_ and _Parsnips_, injured by a centipede, i. 185.

_Carus_ C. G. discovered a circulation in larvæ, &c. iv. 91.

_Case_ or _Caddis_ worms, i. 465; ii. 261, 298.

_Cased-nymphs_, i. 67.

_Catching_ insects, directions for, iv. 528.

_Caterpillars_, diseases of, iv. 214: how best destroyed, i. 30: how to preserve, 551: processionary, ii. 23: teazel, iii. 275: surveyors, attitudes of, ii. 233: what insects destroy, i. 268; iv. 228: spurious, ii. 285: clothing of, iii. 173.

_Cattle_, insects that attack, i. 145.

_Caul_ of insects, iv. 98, 151.

_Centipedes_, i. 126, 258, 311.

_Cephalopoda_, (Cuttle-fish) have three hearts, iii. 6.

_Chabrier_, eulogium of, iv. 186.

_Chafer_, carrion, ii. 386: cock, i. 178, 207; ii. 372: dung, 231, 237, 254: fern, 5: rose, 317: tree, 231.

_Cheese_ maggot, i. 229; ii. 280: mite, 226, 328.

_Cherry_, insects that attack, i. 197.

_Chestnut_, insects that attack, i. 203.

_Chrysalis_, i. 65.

_Cicada_, male, sound produced by, and its apparatus, ii. 398, 400.

_Circulation_, different modes of in the animal kingdom, iv. 81: whether any in insects, 86.

_Clairville's_ system, iv. 473.

_Classes_ of annulose animals, iii. 16; iv. 374: osculant, iii. 14.

_Climates_, insect, iv. 494.

_Clocks_ or _Dors_, ii. 306.

_Clover-seed_, destroyed by a weevil, i. 178.

_Cochineal_, i. 321.

_Cockroach_, i. 229, 242.

_Cocoon_, i. 68, 457; iii. 213: of bees, ii. 138: of saw-flies, 261: of Lepidoptera, iii. 274: of Ephemeræ, 395.

_Collar_ of certain insects, whether the analogue of the prothorax, iii. 546.

_Collier_, plant-louse of the bean, i. 176.

_Colours_ (brilliant), use of in insects, ii. 221.

_Commosis_, what? ii. 479.

_Concealment_, modes of in insects, ii. 254.

_Correlation_, iv. 366.

_Cossus_, Pliny's, i. 302.

_Cotton_, insects that injure, i. 185.

_Creation_, works of, have a double object, iv. 411.

_Crepuscular_ insects, iv. 525.

_Cricket_, field, ii. 393; iv. 110: house, i. 243; ii. 392: Indian, i. 243: mole, ii. 362, 394; iii. 584.

_Crop_ of insects, iv. 113, 115.

_Cuckow_, bee, i. 289: insects, 345.

_Cucumbers_, fecundated by bees, i. 299.

_Cupules_, iv. 179, 190.

_Currant_, insects that attack, i. 196.

_Cuvier's_ system, iv. 474.

_Dances_ of insects, ii. 5, 367.

_Death-watch_, i. 36; ii. 381.

_Deer_ infested by insects, i. 159.

_De Geer_ (Baron), system of, iv. 453.

_Developments_ of plants and animals, iii. 57.

_Devil's-horse_, ii. 218.

_Digger_ (entomological) described. iv. 529.

_Dimerous_ insects, iii. 684.

_Diptera_, three descriptions of, ii. 355.

_Diseases_ of insects:-- wounds, iv. 205: internal diseases, 208: parasitic, 214.

---- caused by lice, i. 83: by mites, 88: by larvæ, 97, 134.

_Dissection_ of insects, modes of, iv. 201.

_Distribution_ of insects:-- numerical, iv. 488: topographical, 494: local, 511.

_Diurnal_ insects, iv. 524.

_Dogs_, insects infesting, i. 162.

_Dors_, ii. 216, 306; iii. 332.

_Dragon_, flying, wings represent mid-legs of insects, iii. 591; iv. 428.

_Dragon-flies_, devourers of insects, i. 276: cloud of, ii. 10: wings of, ii. 350: remarkable apparatus of larva, &c., iii. 125: eyes of, 501.

_Drone_, or male bee, ii. 168.

_Drum_ of the cicada, ii. 400: of grasshoppers, 396.

_Dyes_ afforded by insects, i. 317.

_Earwigs_, common, sits on her eggs, i. 360: wings of, ii. 346: giant, ii. 234: lesser, iv. 527.

_Education_, effects of on ants and other insects, ii. 87; iv. 22.

_Eggs_ of insects, how fecundated, iv. 164: exclusion, iii. 66: situation, 70: substance, 86: number, 89: size, 90: growth, 91: shape, 93: sculpture, 97: colour, 99: gestation, iv. 168: have their parasites, iv. 219.

_Electricity_ affects gossamer web, iv. 137: excites insects, 141, 254.

_Emigrations_, of insects, ii. 7: of locusts, i. 225; ii. 14: of ants, ii. 91.

_Entomologist_, not cruel, i. 53: dress proper for, iv. 538.

_Entomology_, instances of its utility, i. 237: study of, value, 4: uses of a system of, 46.

_Entozoa nematoidea_, a kind of intestinal worms, iv. 237.

_Ephemeræ_, history of, i. 282: singular gyrations of, ii. 365: have an inner pupa case, iii. 295: respiratory organs, iv. 57: used as manure, i. 316.

_Eras_, entomological:-- of the ancients, iv. 430: of the revival of the science, 436: of Swammerdam and Ray, 441: of Linné, 447: of Fabricius, 460: of Latreille, 465: of MacLeay, 477.

_Evil_ (seeming), uses of, i. 250.

_Excrement_ of insects, iv. 125: larvæ of wasps, bees, &c. have none, 108, 116.

_Eyes_ of insects:-- simple, iii. 489: conglomerate, 492: compound, 493: structure of, 494: number, 497: situation, 499: figure, 500.

_Fabricius_, system of, iv. 461.

_Fishes_ insectivorous, i. 265, 289; ii. 272: attacked by an insect, i. 166.

_Flea_, i. 100: leap of, ii. 310: strength of, iv. 195.

_Flies_, singular disease of, iv. 209: aphidivorous, i. 399.

_Flowers_, insects that devour, i. 194.

_Fluid_ in _pseudo-cardia_ of insects, iv. 83, 90, note.

_Fly_, Abyssinian, i. 153: case-worm, ii. 301: cauliflower, i. 190: chamæleon, iii. 99; iv. 54: cheese, ii. 280: crane, 363; iii. 67; iv. 163: eye, i. 130: fire, i. 317; ii. 412, 422: flesh or carrion, i. 257; ii. 272, 357: forest, i. 149; ii. 306: gall, i. 317, 446; iv. 162: Hessian, i. 50, 170: horse, i. 109, 146: house, i. 129; ii. 357; 466, note: lace-winged, iii. 94: May, i. 282; ii. 236, 298: onion. i. 191: sand or burning, i. 110: scorpion, ii. 20, 56: snake, 305: swallow, i. 111: wheat, 169.

_Food_, insects that attack, i. 227: reservoir, iv. 104.

_Foot-cushions_ of insects, ii. 317, 322; iii. 691.

_Forceps_ described, iv. 533.

_Forest-trees_, insects attack, i. 207.

_Frog-hopper_ (froth), leaps of, ii. 311.

_Fungi_ parasitic on insects, iv. 215.

_Gad-fly_, deer and reindeer, i. 159: horse, 147: ox, 150: man, 136: rabbit, 166: sheep, 158.

----, has eight tracheæ, iv. 66.

_Gall-nuts_, i. 317, 446.

_Garments_, insects that attack, i. 232.

_Gecko_ (lizard), ii. 321.

_Gentles_, i. 64.

_Geometers_ or _Surveyors_, a kind of caterpillar, ii. 288; iv. 196.

_Gesner_, iv. 430.

_Gizzard_ of insects, iv. 106.

_Glow-worm_, common, ii. 405: iv. 149: Italian, ii. 420.

_Gnat_, agaric, ii. 7: common, i. 62, 112; ii. 281; iii. 82: gall, i. 211, 446: horse, 148: wheat, i. 28, 171: winter, ii. 438.

_Goliath_ beetles belt the globe, iv. 506.

_Gooseberry_, insects that attack, i. 196.

_Gossamer_ webs, ii. 330.

_Gould_ (Rev. W.), the historian of English ants, ii. 48.

_Grass_, insects that attack, i. 178: Indian, how made, i. 287, 337.

_Grasshopper_, ii. 390, 394: large green, i. 150; iv. 237.

_Gray_ (Mr.) characters of Linné's orders and genera of insects in Latin verse, iv. 457.

_Groups_ of animal kingdom, iv. 371: of insects, 398: characters of, 400: scale of, 402: composition of, 406: how to be investigated, 560: predominant, 500: dominant, 502: sub-dominant, 504: quiescent, 505: endemial, 506: osculant, iii. 12.

_Gyrations_ of insects, ii. 366.

_Habit_, what, iv. 564.

_Habitations_ of solitary insects, i. 434: of gregarious insects, 473.

---- curious ones of _Tineidæ_, i. 454.

_Hairs_, use of to aquatic insects, ii. 360.

_Handworm_, what, i. 92.

_Harvest-man_, iv. 121.

_Hawkmoth_, bee, i. 212: death's-head, 34, 164; ii. 237, 263: hornet, i. 212: humming-bird, ii. 365, 379: privet, 234, iii. 265: spurge, 265.

_Hawkmoths_, ii. 234, 251.

_Hearing_ of insects, organ of, iv. 244.

_Heart_ of insects, what represented by? iv. 83: of _Arachnida_, 99.

_Heat_ (vital) of insects, ii. 226: iv. 77.

_Heliocantharus_ of the ancients, i. 255. note.

_Herbage_ benefited by insects, i. 252.

_Herod_ (Agrippa) destroyed by larvæ, i. 98.

_Heteromerous_ insects, iii. 682.

_Honey_, i. 329; iv. 140.

---- _comb_, i. 482.

---- _dew_, i. 210.

_Hops_, insects that attack, i. 183.

_Hornet_, i. 121, 273.

_Horns_ of insects, use of, ii. 252.

_Horse_, insects that annoy, i. 145.

_Hovering_ of insects, ii. 364.

_Huber_, the historian of the hive-bee, i. 486.

---- P. the historian of ants, ii. 48.

_Humble-bees_, affection for their young, i. 378: mode of building their nests, 498: females, ii. 113: making cells, i. 499; ii. 116: males, 116: workers, 117: hive-bees persuade them to yield to them their honey, 117.

_Humeral_ piece of wings, iii. 619.

_Humming_ of insects, ii. 375; iii. 550, note.

---- in the air, ii. 373.

_Hybernation_ of insects:-- in the egg state, ii. 427: pupa state, 430: larva state, 431: perfect state, 432: places to which they resort for, 434: cold not the only cause of, 454.

_Hymenoptera_ (gregarious) not subject to the attack of ichneumons, iv. 225.

_Ichneumons_, i. 267; iv. 216, 230: how to extract from caterpillars, 554.

_Ignis fatuus_, ii. 417.

_Imago_, i. 68: motions-- walking, ii. 302: running, 306: jumping, 309: climbing, 316; against gravity, 318: flying, 342: swimming, &c., 359: burrowing, 361: development, iii. 290: hatched under a hen, iv. 555: sexual distinctions, iii. 298: age, 343.

_Insects_, apparatus for killing, iv. 540: annoyance of in what respects beneficial, i. 251: beneficial in removing nuisances; as dung, 254: carrion, 256: in keeping other insects, &c. within due limits, 261: as affording food to quadrupeds, 280: to reptiles, and fishes, 282: to birds, 287: to man, 301: as articles used in materia medica, 313: used for ornament, 317: as affording materials for dyeing, ink, &c., 317: as producing wax, 326: honey, 329: silk, 332: vitality of, ii. 446: cold and frost, effects upon, ii. 437, 446: definition of, iii. 28: breeding them, directions for, iv. 552: differ from _Crustacea_ and _Arachnida_, iii. 9: education, effects of upon, ii. 87: errors (vulgar) concerning, i. 33: _fossil_, iv. 570: _food_ of-- vegetable, i. 382; animal, 384; both animal and vegetable, 386; some univorous, 387; others omnivorous, 388; times of feeding, 391; organs by which they feed, 392; iii. 416: stratagems employed in procuring food-- by spiders, i. 403; by the ant-lion, 425; how best to _kill_ them when captured, iv. 536, 540: imitations they exhibit, i. 7; ii. 216: injuries they occasion to man, i. 80: other animals, 145; grain, 167; pulse, 175; herbage, 178; roots, 185; kitchen-garden, 189; flower garden, 194; fruit, 195; plantations, 207; to our food, 227; garments, 232; timber, 235; books and cabinets, 239: instincts, exquisiteness of, ii. 467; number of, 492; development of, 503: instruction afforded by insects, i. 16: integuments of, iii. 393: intellect of, ii. 507; iv. 21, 32: inventions they have anticipated, i. 14: means by which they defend themselves-- passive, ii. 216;

## active, 229:

luminous insects, ii. 403: noxious, how to be destroyed, i. 28: number, (supposed) of insects existing, iv. 489: compared with that of plants, 489: of carnivorous and phytiphagous insects, 491: oviparous and ovo-viviparous insects, iii. 65: representative insects, iv. 508; rank of, 373: strength of, iv. 195: setting and preparing for cabinet, 543: table of relative size of, iii. 33: transformations of, i, 63: memory of, ii. 519.

_Insects_, proper and improper, ii. 303.

_Instinct_, change of in a spider, iv. 205, note.

_Itch_, cause of, i. 90.

_Itching_ produced by hairs of caterpillars, i. 130.

_Jaws_ of insects, i. 393: upper, iii. 313: under, 315.

_Jelly_, secreted by ditto, iv. 139.

_Journal_, entomological, how to make, iv. 569.

_Jurine_, system of, iii. 620; iv. 482.

_Kingdoms_ (animal and vegetable), analogies between, iv. 370: numerical arrangement of, 410.

_Knowledge_, two avenues to, i. 24.

_Lac_, an insect product, i. 324.

_Lady-bird_ or _Lady-cow_, i. 265; ii. 9, 227, 247.

_Lamarck_, system of animals, iii. 15: of insects, iv. 474.

_Lantern-fly_, noise of, ii. 397: whether luminous, 413.

_Larva_ of flies, i. 230: stinging, iii. 179: rat-tailed, i. 256: its respiratory apparatus, iv. 52.

_Larvæ_, substance of, iii. 110: head, 112: eyes, 116: antennæ, 118: mouth, 119: trunk and abdomen, 130: prolegs, 134: dorsal of gall-fly, ii. 278: appendages, iii. 144: figure, 155: kinds of, 159: primary forms of, 161: clothing of, 173: colour, 184: food of, 188: moulting, 189: growth of, 199: how they prepare to assume the pupa, 203: motions of apodous, ii. 269: of pedate, ii. 283.

_Latreille_, system of, iv. 465.

_Law_ (original) of the Creator, regulates the developments of insects, iii. 56.

_Leach_, Dr., system of, iv. 475.

_Legs_ of insects, parts of, ii. 283. iii. 660: number of, 652; ii. 307: acquisition of, by myriapods, iii. 23, 107, 159: antennæ supply the place of, ii. 308: relative location of, iii. 656: motatory, ii. 302.

_Lenses_, number of in compound eyes, iii. 494.

_Lepidoptera_, parasites of, iv. 228: colours, iii. 648: scales, 644.

_Linné_, system of animals, iii. 5: of insects, iv. 447.

_Lint_ collected by an ant, i. 315.

_Lister_, Dr. Martin, iv. 444.

_Liver_ of _Arachnida_, iv. 100, 122.

_Locusts_, ravages of, i. 215: followed by famine and pestilence, 217: benefits produced by, 252: used as food, 303: leap of, ii. 310: female killed by the male, iii. 347.

_Louse_, bat, ii. 307: bird, i. 163: iii. 97: common, i. 83: peacock, i. 163: sheep, i. 156: sugar, ii. 316: wood, 230.

----, leaf. See _Plant-louse_.

_Luminosity_ of insects, causes of, ii. 418; iv. 149.

_Lyonet_, anatomy of the cossus, iv. 455.

_MacLeay_, W. S., system of animals, iii. 12: of Annulosa, iv. 477: of Mandibulata, 479: of Petalocera, 481: columns of analogous Haustellata and Mandibulata, 421.

_Mænomenon_ of Pliny, what, ii. 178.

_Maggot_ of a fly, destructive to the sick, i. 138: jumping of cheese-fly, i. 229; ii. 280: of flesh-fly, i. 398.

_Maggots_, what, i. 64: jumping, ii. 280.

_Magnus_, Albertus, iv. 436.

_Maize_, insects that attack, i. 171, 174.

_Males_, two kinds of? iv. 173: secondary characters of, assumed by females, ii. 134.

_Man_, centre of the animal creation, iv. 369.

_Mandibles_ (unguiform) use of, ii. 272.

_Marrow_, Spinal, iv. 8.

_May-fly._ See _Fly_.

_Meal-worm_, i. 227; iii. 141.

_Medicine_, insects useful in, i. 315.

_Metamorphoses_ of insects, analogy between and the resurrection, i. 60, 72: use of, 77: analogies of those of plants and animals, iii. 57.

_Method_, what? iv. 365.

_Microscopes_, iv. 201, 570.

_Midges_, ii. 306.

_Migrations_ of insects, iv. 523.

_Milk_ produced by insects, ii. 242, 248; iv. 140.

_Mineral_ substances eaten by insects, i. 235, 380.

_Mite_, autumnal, or harvest bug, i. 96, 103: bee, 163: beetle, iv. 234: cheese, i. 229, 310; iii. 107: dysentery, i. 89: flour, 228: itch, 90: milk, 88: spider, iv. 236: spinning or red spider, i. 203: strawberry, ii. 307: vegetating, i. 392; iv. 234.

_Mites_ that infest collections of insects, &c. how best destroyed, iv. 140.

_Mitys_, what? ii. 479.

_Mole-cricket_, ravages of, i. 193: nest of, ii. 254: a burrower, 362: whether luminous, 416: wonderful apparatus for moving its arms, iii. 584.

_Monomerous_ insects, iii. 684.

_Moses_, knowledge of insects, i. 22; iv. 430.

_Mosquito_, a _Simulium_, i. 112, 118. See _Gnat_.

_Moth_, aquatic, iv. 56: barley, i. 174: brown-tail, 206, 209: clothes, 232, 462: emperor, 336; ii. 248: figure-of-eight, i. 199: fir, 131; ii. 22: fur, i. 233: ghost or hop, 183; iii. 66, 269, 305: gold or yellow-tail, i. 30; ii. 21, 250: gooseberry and currant, i. 197; ii. 446: grass, i. 179: great-goat, 211; ii. 297; iii. 119, 173, 200, 351: lackey, iii. 80: lappet, ii. 219; iii. 99: lobster, ii. 251: locust, iii. 282: procession, i. 130, 475; ii. 23: prominent, iii. 151: puss, ii. 248, 250; iii. 284; iv. 221: silk-worm, i. 334; iii. 89, 280: tapestry, i. 233: tiger, ii. 223, 249; iii. 175: wax, i. 165, 388: wolf, i. 172: wool, i. 233.

_Moth_, remarkable brush of, iv. 60: one resembling a caterpillar, 165.

_Mothing_, seasons of, iv. 524.

_Moths_, certain that construct curious habitations, i. 454, 462; ii. 471: minute, how to be taken, iv. 540.

---- greasy, how to restore, iv. 145.

_Mouffet_, iv. 439.

_Moulting._ See _Insects_.

_Muscles_ of insects, origin of, iv. 175: substance of, 175: shape, 177: colour, 178: kinds, 178: point of attachment, 179: motions, 180: muscles of larvæ, 181: of imago head and organs, 182: of trunk, 184: of wings, 186: of abdomen, 191: of viscera, 193.

----, of Arachnida, iv. 194.

_Myriapods_, have six legs only at first, iii. 23: analogues of serpents, 40; iv. 418.

_Myrtle_, attacked by a coccus, i. 195.

_Nature_, book of, Bible of man before the fall, i. 22.

_Nectar of flowers_, numerous insects devoted to its absorption, iv. 492.

_Nectarine_, attacked by insects, i. 202.

_Nerves_ of insects, number of, iv. 15: recurrent, 16.

_Nervous system_ of insects, mixed, iv. 21, 23: changes of in their metamorphosis, 23.

_Nervures_, of wings, iii. 292, 688.

_Net_, bag, iv. 529: fly or bat-fowling, 531: French, 529: Maclean's, 533: Paul's, 530: landing or water, 534.

_Neuters_, ii. 30; iv. 172.

_Nine-killer_, i. 288.

_Nocturnal_ insects, i. 391; iv. 526.

_Noises_ of insects, how produced, ii. 376: of beetles, &c. 386. See _Humming_.

_Nut_, weevil of, i. 203.

_Nymph_, i. 65: cased nymph, 67.

_Odours_, insect, ii. 238; iv. 146.

_Œstrus_ of the Greeks, what? i. 153. note.

_Oils_ produced by insects, iv. 139.

_Olive_, insects that attack, i. 203.

_Ophthalmia_, sometimes caused by insects, i. 88.

_Orange_, attacked by acoccus, i. 195.

_Orchard_ and _Fruitery_, insect enemies of, i. 195.

_Orders_ of insects, denominations of, i. 66, note: definitions of, iv. 377: which should precede, 425: osculant, 378.

_Orismology_ (term), iii. 527; iv. 257.

_Ovo-viviparous_ insects, iv. 170.

_Palpi_, of what sense organs, iv. 256.

_Paper_ made by wasps, i. 15, 501.

_Parasites_ of insects:-- _vegetable_, iv. 215: _Insect_; hymenopterous, i. 267; iv. 216: strepsipterous, i. 270; iv. 216: dipterous, i. 270; iv. 231: apterous, 232: _Worms_, 237.

_Passions_, human, symbolized by insects, ii. 28. note.

_Pax-wax_, iv. 183.

_Peaches_, insects that attack, i. 202.

_Pears_, insects that attack, i. 199.

_Peck_ (Professor), his description of the ovipositor of saw-flies, iv. 160.

_Penny_ (Dr. Thomas), iv. 439.

_Pentamerous_ insects, iii. 681.

_Perspiration_ of insects, iv. 151.

_Phosphorus_, iv. 149.

_Phthiriasis_, or lousy disease, i. 84; iv. 232.

_Phthirophagi_, i. 310.

_Pigeons_, insects that infest, i. 163.

_Pine-apple_, insects that attack, i. 203.

_Pissoceros_, what? ii. 174.

_Plant-lice_, extraordinary fecundity of, i. 175; iv. 166: numbers of, ii. 8.

_Plant-louse_-- of the apple, i. 29, 200: of the bean or Collier, 176: of the beech, 211: of the fir, 211, 451: of the hop, 183: of the larch, 211: of roots, ii. 90: of the rose, i. 194.

_Plants_, entrap flies, i. 293: fecundated by insects, 296: some yield poisonous honey, ii. 177.

_Pliny_, iv. 435.

_Plums_, insects that attack, i. 198.

_Pockets_ (wax), ii. 175.

_Poisons_, insect, iv. 143.

_Polymerous_ insects, iii. 685.

_Potatoes_, insects that attack, i. 186.

_Poultry_, insects that attack, i. 163.

_Praying-insects_ or _Mantes_, ferocity of, i. 278.

_Propolis_, what? ii. 183.

_Proportion_ (relative), of insects according to the kind of their food, iv. 492.

_Pubescence_ of insects, uses of, iii. 398.

_Pupæ_, kinds of, i. 65; iii. 237: Lamarck's and Latreille's division of, 241, note: integument of, 243: figure of, 245: parts of, 248: colour of, 258: age of, 260: sex of, 268: motions of, ii. 293; iii. 269: respiration of, iv. 74: extrication of, iii. 270: some copulate, 269.

_Pupiparous_ insects, iii. 64.

_Range_ (geographical) of insects, iv. 498.

_Raspberry_, insects that attack, i. 196.

_Ratel_ (honey), i. 281.

_Ray_ (John), system of insects, iv. 442.

_Reason_, some portion of in insects, ii. 508.

_Reaumur_, eulogium of, iv. 454.

_Resin_, insect, i. 329.

_Respiration_ of insects, how carried on, iv. 36: external signs of, 73.

_Rooks_, serviceable by destroying insects, i. 30.

_Rope and Pulley_ in insects, iii. 700.

_Rye_ attacked by insects, i. 173.

_Salmon_, louse of, i. 166.

_Saprophagous_ insects, iv. 491.

_Saw-flies_, how they deposit their eggs, i. 355: their ovipositor, 355; iv. 160: vast flights of, ii. 10: simulate death, ii. 233: eggs of, grow, iii. 91: why hymenopterous, iv. 382, 416: their scent organs, ii. 242, 248: slimy larvæ of, 225.

_Saw-fly_, barley, i. 173: cherry, 197: gooseberry, 197: rose, 194, 355: turnip, 187; ii. 10.

_Schwenckfeeld_, Dr., first faunist, iv. 440.