624 



INDEX 



Sting, 4, 5, 6, 58, 144 ; development of, 



8, 9 

 Stinging, 98 ; by Calicurgus, 102 ; by 



Pompilidae, 104 ; by Sphex, 109 

 Stingless bees, fil 



Stink-gland, 257, 533 ; -vessel, 225 

 Stipes, 309 

 Stizinae, 123 

 Stomach, 320 

 Stomoxys calcitrans, 512 

 Stratiomyidae, 478 

 Stratiomys, 452 



Straus -Durckheim, on Melolontha, 198 

 Strawberries, eaten by beetles, 205 

 Streblidae, 521 

 Strepsiptera, 180, 298 f. 

 Streptoperas, 401 

 Stridulating organ, of Myrmica, 133 ; of 



Jfeterocerus, 243 ; of Passalus- larva, 



192 ; of Sima lericeps, 169 

 Stridulation, of ants, 134 ; of Corixa, 568 ; 



of Criocerides, 281 ; of Dynastides, 199; 



of Geotrupes, 195 ; of Ipides, 232 ; of 



Lomaptera, 200 ; of Longicorns, 287 ; of 



larva of Lucanus cervus, 194 ; of Mega- 



lopides, 282 ; of Melolontha -larva, 198 ; 



of Alutilla, 94 ; of Pelobius, 208 ; of 



Phonapate, 246 ; of Phyllomorpha, 548 ; 



of Praogena, 264 ; of Siagona, 206 ; of 



Trox, 195 

 Strigil, 568 



Striphuopterygidae, 376 

 Strongylognathus huberi, S. testaceus, 162 

 Strumigenys, 170 

 Style, 442 

 Stylopidae, 298 

 Stylopised bees, 26 

 Stylops (lalii, 299 

 Styx infernalis, 358, 340 

 Suana, 405 

 Subcostal nervure, 318 

 Submedian nervure, 318 

 Suboesophageal ganglion, 320 

 Sucking-stomach, 311, 449 

 Suction by Lepidoptera, 311 

 Suctoria, 526 

 Supericornia, 546 

 Swallow-flies, 519 

 Swarming of wasps. 70 n. 

 Swarms/62, 65 67, 80, 135, 467, 505, 



584 



Swift- moths, 396 

 Symbiosis, of ants and plants, 139 ; of 



bee and Acarid, 70. See also Ants'- 



nest Insects, and Association 

 Symbius blattarmn, 269 

 Symphily, 183 

 Syuecthry, 183 

 Synemon, 371 

 Synoeca cyanea, nest, 82 

 Syntelia westwoodi, 229 

 Synteliidae, 229 



Syntomidae, 339 n., 369, 388 

 Syntomis phegea, 390 

 Syringe, 535, 536 

 Syrphidae, 439, 498 f. 

 Systoechits oreas, 489 

 Systropus crudelis, 489 



Tabanidae, 481, 492 



Tabanus, 482 



Tachinidae, 507, 514 



Tacky sphex panzeri, 117 



Tachytes, 116 ; destroyer of, 275 ; T. 



australis, 113, 117 ; T. pectinipes, 117 

 Tachytides, 116 

 Taenia, fleas as hosts of, 526 

 Tajuria diaeus, pupa, 357 

 Taleporia, 395 

 Taleporiidae, 430 

 Tanypezidae, 504 

 Taphroderides, 296 

 Tapinoma erraticum, 157 

 Tarantula-killer 105 

 Tarphius, 233 

 Tarsolepis, 383 



Tasclienberg, on anatomy of flea, 523 n. 

 Tascina, 372 

 Tea-plant bug, 562 

 Teara melanosticta, 408 

 Tegula, 71, 187, 307, 311, 312, 447 

 Tegmina, 539 

 Teleodont, 193 

 Telephorides, 248 

 Telmatophihts, 235 

 Temnochila coendea, 232 

 Temnochilides, 233 

 Tenebrio molitor, 263 

 Tenebriouidae, 263 

 Tenebroides mauritanica, 232 

 Tentacle, maxillary, 309, 432 

 Tenthrediuidae, parasite of, 4 

 Terebrantia, 531 

 Termites, 203, 206, 227, 231 

 Terrifying attitude, 384 

 Tesseratomides, 546 



Testes, 321, 324, 400, 429 ; iu larva, 325 

 Tetanocera ferruginea, 504 

 Tetanoceridae, 504 

 Tetragona, 53, 61 

 Tetramera, 190 



Tetramorium caespitum, 160, 163 

 Tettigometrides, 567 

 Teucrium, bug and galls on, 550 

 Thais, pupation of, 363 

 Thanaos, 342 ; T. tages, audroconia, 332 

 Therevidae, 484 

 Tli irlilnpteryx, 420 

 Thomas, on aiidrocouia, 331 

 Thorictidae, 236 

 Thorictus, 236 

 Thrips, 526 f. ; Thrlp* lini, 531 ; T. 



secalina, 530 

 Throscides, 260 



