INDEX. 



Acacia, grows hollow thorns 



as houses for ants, 176 

 ^Elianus Claudius, 172 

 Ammophila, 169 

 Andrsena, 194 

 Anergates, 183 

 Andre, 179 

 Anopheles, life-history of 



yellow-fever parasites in, 53 

 Antennae of cockroach, and 



compound nose, no 

 Apathus, a pauper bee, 192 

 Aphids, the ants' cattle, 178 

 Ants, deaf to ordinary sounds, 



187 



Ants, destroy body-vermin, 185 

 Ants, life-history of, 185 

 Ants, not wanted by flowers, 



175 



Ants, red, 184 



Ants, rotund, self-sealing cans 

 of honey, 177 



Ants, susceptible to the spec- 

 trum, 187 



B 



Balbiani, entomologist, his 



remedy against moths, 133 

 Bedbug, bite of, 91 

 Bedbug, euphuisms for, 90 

 Bedbug, life-history of, 98 

 Bedbug, remedies for, 97 

 Bedford Bugg, Mr., change of 



his name, 115 

 Bees, comb of, its geometry, 



Bees, life-history, 203 

 Bees, set seeds in fruit, 191 



Bees, their food, 208 



Bee. tongue of, a trough, not a 

 tube, 195 



Beeswax, ho\v secreted, 196 



Blastophaga, fig-insect, 156 



Bristletail, 180 



Brougham, Lord, 199 



Bug, " Abe Lincoln," 73 



Bugs, coreids smell like cinna- 

 mon, 8 r 



Bugs, corixa, eggs shipped as 

 food for birds; plays tune on 

 snout, 82 



Bugs defended by strong odors, 

 81 



Bugs, lady-, pill-, not true bugs, 

 76 



Bug, origin of word, 76 



Bugs, seventeen-year locusts 

 not locusts, but bugs; how 

 they make a noise, 82 



Bugs, their study antipathetic 

 to Humbugs, 217 



Bugs, Zait/ia, domestic diffi- 

 culty of, 84 



Bumble-bees, improved method 

 of robbing them, 193 



Bumble-bees, their charitable- 

 ness, 192 



Bumble-bees, their life-history, 

 193 



Burns, Robert, poem on head- 

 louse, 100 



Caprifig, 156 

 Carpenter wasp, 169 

 Cat, woman's client, 8 

 Chalcis fly, kills cotton cater- 

 pillars, 157 



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