GENERAL INDEX. 



661 



of instances of insects appearing in extraordi- 

 nary numbers at certain times and places, 

 adduced in connection with an argument that 

 these appearings are owing, indirectly or di- 

 rectly, to volcanic emanations, 193. 308, 309. 

 610; Gonepteryx rhAmni, Vanessa urticse, 

 V. Vu, and Amplu'dasis pilosaria, mentions of 

 their early vernal appearance in Switzerland, 

 and remarks in argument that they are indi- 

 viduals which have newly escaped from the 

 pupa, not individuals which have hibernated, 

 246; a notice of certain species which are 

 deemed to hibernate in England, 523 ; insects 

 employ, for any merely mechanical end, any 

 suitable mechanical object, 534 ; a mention 

 of one instance, and references to others, of 

 insects perforating the corolla of plants, to 

 make way to the nectar contained, 571 ; notes 

 on luminous insects, chiefly of the West In- 

 dies, 579 ; a note on insects of extraordinary 

 configuration, 601 ; a list of the more rare of 

 the species of insects found on Parley Heath, 

 on the borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire, 

 and neighbourhood not exceeding five miles, 

 497 ; remarks on lepidopterous insects noticed 

 in the Isle of Jersey, 473 ; criticisms on figures 

 and accounts of certain of the species of in- 

 sects figured in Wood's Index Entomologicus, 

 and Stephens's Illustrations of British Ento- 

 mology, 176 ; notes on, and names of, some 

 species of insects which consume pulse, grain, 

 biscuits, &c., 255 ; suggestions on the most 

 advisable methods for discovering remedies 

 against the ravages of insects, 425; the au- 

 thorship of the prefixes pro, meso, and meta 

 belongs to Mr. Newman, not to Mr, Haliday, 

 77, 78 ; criticism on Mr. Newman's nomen- 

 clature for the thoracic appendages of insects, 

 178; a notice of a mode of injecting the bo- 

 dies of the larvae and pupEe of insects, 572. 



Iris, the Persian, the odour of its flowers, and 

 the idiosyncrasies therewith connected, 179. 



Jackdaws consort with rooks, 106 ; instances of 

 anomalous plumage in the jackdaw, 595 ; 

 anecdotes of a domesticated jackdaw, 150 ; 

 notice of a tame jackdaw, so attached to its 



' protector as to accompany him wherever he 

 may go, 515. 



Jay, a description of the song of the, 515. 



Jersey. See Guernsey. 



Kestrel, a, has been held fast by a magpie it 

 had struck at, 150; a mention of the kes- 

 trel, 334. 



Kite, notes on the, 334. 511, 



Lacefly, the common, affixes its pedunculated 

 eggs to almost any object, 534. 



Lacustrine formations. See Freshwater form- 

 ations. 



Lark : the skylark sometimes sings before dawn 

 in fine weather, 144. 



Leptocephalus Morn's^ Pennant, corrections to 

 the engraving of, 77. 



Lerot, le, of Cuvier's Regne Animal, a descrip- 

 tion of, and facts on the habits of an animal 

 believed to be identical, 182; has this animal 

 ever been seen wild in Britain? 182. 



Lexden, near Colchester, Essex, and its neigh- 

 bourhood, remarks on the natural produc- 

 tions of, 17. 



Limnt;a lineata Bean, a figure and description 

 of, and of a reversed variety of, 493. 



Limnfei, theBritish, are ill-defined and ill-under- 

 stood, 379 ; three synonymes of Limnfeus elon- 

 gatus Turton, 379 ; in reply to enquiry in, 161. 



Limn6charis Latr., a species of, parasitic upon 

 Dyti'scus marginalis L., 161. 



Linnet, the mountain, a description of the song 

 of, 489. 



Lion, incidents on the hunting a, with sugges- 

 tions on the fittest mode of defending one's 

 self from the attack of a, 3 ; zoological recol- 

 lections on the lion, 320. 



Lizards, notes on the voluntary changing of 

 colour in several genera of lizards, and more 

 especially in CliamEe^eon and Anblis, 581 ; 

 lizards like music, 583. 



Locusts, instances of abundance of, in various 

 places, 195, 196. 308, 309. 610. 



Lumbrlcus ? Clit^llio Savigny? pelliicida, figured 

 and described, 131. 



Lyca;^m dispar has occurred in two successive 

 summers, in a locality which was under war- 

 ter for a considerable time in the intervening 

 winter, 522; an instance of difference of shape 

 in the upper wings of two males of L. dispar, 

 60 ; L. Arlon and AVis have been taken in 

 plenty, 499. 



Lycbrii margarit^cea Lamarck, a figure and a 

 description of, 230. 



Mackerel, the common, reasons for deeming it 

 not a migratory species, 637. 



Macrogl6ssa stellat^rum, facts on the habits of, 

 475. 532. 



Magpie, instances of enmity evinced by the, to 

 the kestrel, 149; a magpie has grasped and 

 held fast a kestrel that had attacked it, 150 ; 

 magpies have been employed to capture mag- 

 pies, 334. note * ; the magpie in cream-co- 

 loured plumage, noted, 595; the magpie is 

 termed nanpic in Yorkshire, 565. 



Malachius, bipunct&tus Bab., and other species 

 of, information on the diagnostics of, 178. 378. 

 5'-i5 ; with figures of two of the species, 378. 



Malcr.mm maritima Brown, a British habitat 

 of, 271. 



Man : facts suggesting to him his fittest mode 

 of defending himself from attacks of animals 

 of the feline and canine tribes, 1 ; an instance 

 of a high moral sentiment excited in man by 

 the singing of birds at early dawn, in summer 

 time, 143 ; a notice of a white negro, 589. 



Mantell, G., Esq., about to reside in Brighton, 

 and remove his geological museum thither, 

 49. 



Marten, facts on the, 503. 



Martins and swallows, a mode of preventing 

 their affixing their nests to the surface of an 

 object, 82. 



Melolontha flillo, the fact of the capture of 

 one, 258 ; mentions of M. vulgaris, 247, 309. 



Membrkcis, figures of three species of, and in- 

 ferences on their habits, 602. 



Merian, Madame, observations on most of the 

 insects and plants figured in her work on the 

 insects, &c., of Surinam, 355. 



Meteoric phenomena, see Volcanic emana. 

 tions. 



Meteors, an extraordinary display of, seen in 

 America, in the night of Nov, 13. 1833, 289; 

 speculations on the conditions of, 289. 385. 

 611 ; luminous meteors are very common in 

 the West Indies, 580; a notice of the occur- 

 rence of meteors, on Nov. 13., in 1834, 654. 



Mirage, facts and arguments in relation to the 

 causes of, 450. 



Mocking-bird, British, see Sedge-bird. ' 



Mole : the fact of the capture of a mole of a 

 silvery ash-grey colour, with an orange mark 

 under the lower jaw, and a line of the same 

 colour down the belly, 143. 



Molluscous animals, an introduction to the 

 natural history of the : their respiration, 106 ; 

 their food and digestive organs, 218; the food 

 and digestive organs of carnivorous MoUiisca, 

 408. 



Monkey": the original anecdote of a monkey's 

 employing a cat's paw, to preserve its own 

 from burning, 326. note * j a mention of two 

 white monkeys, 591. 



Mont Blanc. See Switzerland. 



Mouse, a notice of a species of, possibly an un- 

 described one, which has abounded in Inver- 

 ness-shire and Ross-shire, 181. 



Mullferw papillbsa Johnston, a figure and a de- 

 scription of, 584. 



Muscle, the freshwater, notice of a portion of 

 pearly matter found within a shell of, and of 

 the reason why it was formed there, 160. 



3/ytilus subsaxatilis Williamson, characteris- 

 tics, affinities, and habitats of, 358. 



Nai5 L. serpentina Crmel., figured and described, 

 130. 



