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Index. 



Charles III. of Spain, 151 



Chrysis fly, 169 



Claviger beetle, 179 



Cockroach, pattern insect for 

 all others, 108 



Cockroaches, Periplaneta A ns- 

 tralasicr, Australian cock- 

 roach, 113 



Cockroaches, Mexican remedy 

 against, 119 



Cockroach, domestic nature of, 

 107-108 



Cockroach, oldest of air-breath- 

 ing animals, 103 



Cockroaches, omnivorous, 115 



Cockroaches, traps for, 117 



Cockroaches, varieties in our 

 houses, 112 



Colorado potato-beetle, 212 



Cremogaster, 177 



Culex, propagates elephantia- 

 sis, 53 



D 



Darwin, 143 



De Teremeyer, Raymond 

 Maria, first to spin spider 

 silk, 151 



Diptera, most highly special- 

 ized of insects, 17 



Dog, experience with cat, 60 



Dog, first animal to surrender, 



9 

 Dog, Gildersleeve's, 60 



Dolomes mirab ilis 151 

 Drones, annual killing, 204 

 Dufour, 138 



E 



Ectobia Germanica, or Croton 



bug, 112 

 Elasticity of the original 



Hebrew, 16 

 Empusa, fungus that kills 



flies, 30 

 Evans, David E., saw spider 



catch snake, 144 



Fleas, compressed from side to 

 side, 57 



Fleas, jumping power com- 

 pared with man's, 66 



Fleas, life-history, 64 



Fleas, mother does not feed 

 young, 65 



Fleas, no evidence of personal 

 untidiness, 54 



Fleas, originally two- winged, 



56 

 Fleas, performing, how taught, 



7i 

 Fleas, tincture of larkspur to 



kill, 63 



Flies, eyes of, 27 

 Flies, family reunion of, 17 

 Flies, found in early Tertiary, 



29 

 Flies, house-, various kinds, 



28 

 Flies, methods of warfare 



against, 31 

 Flies, proportion of, to pound 



of manure, 35 

 Flies, typhoid fever, gangrene, 



malignant pustule, cholera, 



ophthalmia transmitted by, 



19 

 Florida Blanca, 151 



Fly, bot-, annual damage to 

 cattle in U. S., 20 



Fly's foot not an air-pump, 24 



Fly, screw-worm, causes horri 

 ble death, 20 



Flowers, their system of mar- 

 riage, 190 



Formica exsectoides, 186 



Formica fusca, 181 



Formica pratensis, 180 



Formica rufa, 180 



Formica sang nine a, 181 



Fox, how it rids itself of fleas, 

 62 



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Gage, Professor, sticky fly- 

 paper method, 64 



