GENERAL INDEX. 431 



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Rose-chafer, its transformations . vol. ii. 79 



" Rose Leaf-cutter " Bee and her nest ...... iii. 85 



Rose Willow, Gall on the "Willow so called ii. 69 



Saw, compound, of the female Saw-fly, and its purpose . . . iii. 327 

 Saw-flies (Tenthredinida}, and pseudo-caterpillars of ... iii. 327 

 Saw-fly, the Hawthorn, and curious cocoon of . . . . iii. 323 



Satnrnia pavonia (Emperor Moth) ...... ii. 233 



Scarabteus sacer, or Sacred Beetle, and its symbolic attributes iii. Ill, 114-116 

 Scarabaus, or Dung Beetle, its habits symbolic of the sordid . . iii. 114 

 Scorpion-fly (Panorpa communis), its boldness and beauty . . ii. 277 

 Sculpture, natural, in Beetles (Histeridce) , and other insects . iii. 123, 254 



in insect eggs ......... iii. 252 



Senses, organs of, in insects ....... i. 195-209 



Sensibility, amount of, in insects ....... ii. 169 



Sholl, John, and his American Bee-hives . . . . . ii. 211 



Sight of Insects .......... i. 193 



Silk and Silkworms . . . . . . . . . i. 161 



Size, augmentation of, sufficient to make insects formidable : imagina- 

 tive sketch suggested by this idea . . . . . ii. 252 



wonderful disproportion of, betwixt the Imago of the Lace-wing 



Fly and the puparium which encloses it . . . . ii. 282 



Skippers, family of Butterflies (Hesperid<e) so called . . . ii. 136 

 Smell, sense of, in insects ...... i. 202, 203, 204 



Smerinthus Tilice (Lime Hawk Moth) ...... ii. 308 



Souls, transmigration of, Rabbinical notions on . . . . i. 291 



Sounds emitted by insects, and mechanism of i. 201, ii. 215, 219 



Sphingidce, Sphinxes, or Hawk Moths ..... ii. 303-312 



Spiders, description of species of ...... i. 128-139 



enormous, at Hampton Court ..... iii. 288 



maternal affection of ....... iii. 94, 286 



- perseverance, neatness, and ingenuity of. . iii. 287, 291, 293 

 resemblances of, to destructive animals ..... iii. 276 



resemblances of, to Men, Beasts of rapine, Birds, Fishes, and 



Reptiles . . . iii. 277-286 



-sight of . . . iii. 292 



- superstitious concerning ...... iii. 288 



- weather, interpretation of, by their movements . iii. 291 



