Part 50
_Scolechiasis_, i. 99; iv. 232.
_Scorpion_, terrific attitude of, i. 124: ferocity of, 279: gills of, iv. 61: liver of, 123.
----, water, eggs of, iii. 94.
_Scripture_ (Holy), account of insects, iv. 431.
_Sculpture_ of insect integument, uses of, iii. 396, 654.
_Seasons_ of insects, iv. 520.
_Secretions_ of insects:-- silk, iv. 136: saliva, 137: varnish, 139: jelly, 139: oils, 139: milk, 134: honey, 140: wax, 141: poisons and acids, 143: odorous fluids and vapours, 146: phosphorus, 149: fat, 150.
_Semicomplete_ pupa, i. 67.
_Sensation_, organs of, iv. 1.
_Senses_ of insects, whether seven, iv. 241: they have the ordinary, 244: internal sense, 242: sight, 242: hearing, 243: antennæ, whether organs of, 247: touch, 255: smell, 257: taste, 264.
_Sensorium_, common, where resident, iv. 19.
_Seven_, a sacred number, iii. 15, note; iv. 241: quinary groups resolvable into, 409.
_Sheep_, insects that infest, i. 157.
_Shell-fish_, insects that infest, i. 166.
_Showers_ (bloody), produced by insects, i. 34.
_Shrike._ See _Butcher-bird_.
_Silk_, i. 332.
_Silk-worms_, kinds of, i. 334: diseases of, iv. 212: not attacked by ichneumons, 228: how to forward their exclusion, iii. 101.
_Skeletons_ (of small animals), how to obtain, i. 258. note.
_Skin_ of insects, iii. 400.
_Skunk_, ii. 238.
_Sleep_ of insects, iv. 199.
_Sloane_ (Sir Hans), encomium of, iv. 446.
_Slugs_ (wheat) how best destroyed, i. 181. note.
_Slug-worm_, i. 198.
_Soap_, manufactured from insects, i. 316.
_Societies_, of insects, imperfect, ii. 3: perfect, 27.
_Society_, Royal, iv. 446.
----, Linnean, iv. 459.
----, Zoological, 460.
_Solomon_, knew insects, i. 23; ii. 46.
_Sow-bug_, i. 140.
_Sparrows_, number of caterpillars they devour, i. 291.
_Species_, iv. 405: how to investigate, 563.
_Spectre_, large egg of, iii. 90.
_Sphinx_, why so named, ii. 234.
_Spider_, amphibious, i. 470: bird, 422; iii. 490: edible, i. 310: gossamer, ii. 330: large field or diadem, i. 405: red, 203: shepherd, ii. 305: small garden, i. 415: trap-door, 467: once tamed, iv. 23.
_Spiders_, hunters, i. 422: swimmers, 424: vagrants, 422: weavers or sedentaries, 403; iv. 31.
----, affection for their eggs, i. 361: webs, texture of and how spun, 403, 420; iv. 129: wonderful apparatus for spinning, i. 403: floating nest of, 423: nest under water, 470: web destroyed by fluid emitted by a caterpillar, ii. 245: sailing in the air, 331: effects of their venom, i. 131: cruelty, 279: gills of, iv. 61: liver of, 124: disease of, 214.
_Spines_ of caterpillars, sometimes venomous, iii. 179.
_Spiracles_ (false), iii. 712.
_Spirits-of-wine_, their use in destroying insects, iv. 536, 538, 541.
_Stamina_ of flowers, adhering to bees mistaken for fungi, iv. 215.
_Stick_, entomological, iv. 529.
_Stomach_ of insects, iv. 105: peculiar of bugs, 117.
_Strawberry_, whether attacked by insects, i. 195; ii. 307.
_Strength_ (muscular) of insects, iv. 195.
_Strepsiptera_ (order), denomination proper, iii. 589, note.
_Subclasses_, iv. 375.
_Subclimates_, iv. 497.
_Suborders_, iv. 400.
_Suckers_ on the feet of insects, ii. 318; iii. 692.
_Sugar-cane_, insect assailants of, i. 183.
_Swammerdam_, system of, iv. 441.
_Swine_, insects that infest, i. 159.
_System_, what? iv. 365.
---- (nervous), of animals, four primary types of, iv. 3: what analogous to, 20.
---- of the development of insect forms by Dr. Herold, refutation of, iii. 52, 191.
_Systems_ of insects, alary, iv. 447: eclectic, 465: maxillary, 460: metamorphotic, 441: quinary, 477.
_Tarantula_ spider, effects of bite, i. 127.
_Taste_, organs of in insects, iv. 264.
_Tetramerous_ insects, iii. 683.
_Thalerophagous_ insects, iv. 491.
_Tick_, American, i. 105, 146: dog, 104, 162; ii. 220, 304.
_Timber_, insects that attack, i. 234.
_Times_ of appearance of insects, iv. 523.
_Timour Beg_, anecdote of, ii. 100.
_Tobacco_, insects that attack, i. 185.
_Tool_ for cutting pins, &c. iv. 557.
_Torpidity_ of insects, iv. 78: causes of, ii. 437: their reviviscence from, 450.
_Touch_, organs of in insects, iv. 255.
_Trachea_ or wind-pipe of insects, iv. 62: analogy between and the spiral vessels of plants, iv. 70.
_Tree-creeper_, i. 290.
_Trees_, injured by insects, i. 207:
## particularly by a small beetle, 212.
_Trimerous_ insects, iii. 684.
_Trunk_ of insects, reasons assigned for the nomenclature of, iii. 527.
_Turnip_, greatly injured by insects, i. 187; ii. 10.
_Vacuum_ formed by the little caterpillar of a moth, i. 16, 458.
_Varnish_, produced by insects, iv. 139.
_Vegetables_, fly-catchers, i. 293.
_Vessel_ (dorsal), of insects, iv. 83, 96: varicose or bile, 109.
_Vine_, attacked by insects, i. 204; ii. 331; iv. 512.
_Virey_, Dr., system of animals, iv. 371: theory of instinct, 26.
_Wasp_, bee, ii. 221, 363: blue-sand, 380: caterpillar or sand, 363; iv. 138: common, i. 16; ii. 106: fly, 363: golden, 222, 231: mason, i. 348, 358, 444: spider, 347: ii. 354, 363.
_Wasps_, females, i. 372: love of their progeny, 373: nests of, 501: numbers of, 374; ii. 108: sentinels, 111: destruction of, 112: kept in hives, how they proceed, 112: walk against gravity, 327: how they act if their prey is too heavy, 514: fluid effused by, iv. 138: poison of, 145.
_Water_, stagnant, purified by larvæ, i. 259.
_Wax_ (bees'), i. 326, 487; iv. 141.
---- (coccus), i. 327.
_Weevil_, clover, i. 178: common, 172: dock, ii. 277: figwort, 271: millet, i. 173: nut, 203, 357: palm, 301; ii. 318: rice, i. 173: water-hemlock, 149.
_Weevils_, ii. 232, 318.
_Wheat_, numerous insects attack, i. 167.
_Wheel_, animal, ii. 447.
_Willughby_, encomium of, iv. 444.
_Winglets_, use of, ii. 354.
_Wings_ of insects, ii. 342; iii. 616: apparatus for steadying them, iii. 336.
_Wood-louse_ (timber), ravages of, i. 238.
_Wood-pecker_, i. 31, 290.
_Works_, Entomological, which useful to the entomologist, iv. 483, note.
_Worm_, wire, ravages of, i. 180, 188: hand or wheale, 92: wheat, or _Vibrio Tritici_, iv. 238.
_Worms_, intestinal, iv. 237.
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