CONTENTS. 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. WRITINGS ON INSECT ANATOMY ... ... ... 1 



II. THE ZOOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE COCKROACH ... 9 



III. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COCKROACH... ... 17 



IV. THE OUTER SKELETON ... ... ... ... ... 28 



V. THE MUSCLES; THE FAT-BODY AND CCELOM ... ... 71 



VI. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSE ORGANS ... ... 86 



VII. THE ALIMENTARY CANAL AND ITS APPENDAGES ... 113 



VIII. THE ORGANS OF CIRCULATION AND RESPIRATION (in- 

 cluding a section on the Respiratory Movements of 

 Insects, by Prof. Felix Plateau, of Ghent) ..." ... 133 



IX. REPRODUCTION ... ... ... ... ... ... 167 



X. DEVELOPMENT (including a section on the Embryonic 

 Development of the Cockroach, by Joseph Nusbaum, 

 of Warsaw) ... ... ... ... ... ...181 



XI. THE COCKROACH OF THE PAST, by S. H. Scudder, of 



the U.S. Geological Survey ... ... ... ... 205 



APPENDIX :- 



PARASITES OF THE COCKROACH. 

 SENSE OF SMELL IN INSECTS. 



%* Where the species is not named, it is to be understood that the figures 



are drawn from the Cockroach. 



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