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Life of Sir Hans Sloane, 



To my Rentiers, 



Remarks on Beetles, 



Their metamorphosis, 



Their food, ... 



Their use, .... 



Their injuries, .... 



The Lady-bird, 



Its use, ..... 



Tiger-beetles, .... 



Carabi, ..... 



Recollections of the Crimea, 



Mr. Ditson's " Circassia," . 



Professor Pallas and the Empress 

 Catherine II., 



Entomology, or the Natural Histo- 

 ry of Insects, 



Definition of Insect, 



Of the physical functions of Insects 

 and their analogy to vertebrate 

 animals, .... 



The number of Insects, their nour- 

 ishment, venom, instinct, and 

 mental faculties, 



Of the dwellings of Insects, 



Classification of them into eight 

 orders, .... 



Washington Hoppin, M. D., 



Nature's law of antagonisation, 



ORftER I. 



Division of Beetles into carnivorous, 



scavenger and herbivorous . 43 

 Latreille's division, . . . 44 

 Of Scavenger-beetles, . 45 

 (-rubs eaten by the ancients, . 47 

 Enthusiasm for the stud}' of Insects, 48 

 Of the Brom'.c Dung-beetle, . •">! 

 Putrid water purified by larvae, . 52 

 Catching and preserving Beetles, 53 

 Of the Tumble-bog, . . .44 

 Of the sacred Beetle, . . 55 

 Wood-fences injurious to rural econ- 

 omy, .... 56 

 Of the horned Passalus . 58 

 Of the Stag-beetle, . . . 59 

 Of the Indian Cetonia, . . 01 

 Of the Eox-like Cetonia. . . <'>2 

 David S. C. H. Smith, M. D., 63 

 < )f the Horned Fungns-eater, . 63 

 Of the Cabinet-beetle, . . 64 

 General Andrew Jackson, . . 65 



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Of Carrion-bcctlcs, . 



Of the Crusader Carrion-beetle, 



Of Herbivorous beetles, or Plant- 

 eaters, 



The Entomologist, . 



Maxims and cunning of Peter the 

 Great, Emperor of Russia, 



Rev. John Mac Lean, D. D., . 



Of Spring-beetles,, 



Of the velvet-spotted Spring-beetle, 



Of the lightning Spring-beetle, 



Human life saved by it, 



Nature of their light, 



Of Capricorn-beetles, 



Of the painted Capricorn, 



Legislative protection of birds . 



Scarcity of Insects, 



Governor Francis M. Dimond, 



Of cloak-bearing Capricorn, 



Of Snout-beetles, 



Of the Palm-weevil, 



Of the Palm-worm, eaten as a de- 

 licious dish, .... 



Of the Cabbage Palm-tree, 



iOf the Wheat- weevil, . 



Of the Rice-weevil, . 



Of the Pea-weevil, 



Of leaf-eating Beetles, 



Of the gilded Dandy, . 



ORDEK II. 



Of Bugs, or Hemiptarous Insects, 

 Usefulness of the Bed-bug, 

 Of the red-eyed Cicada, improper- 

 ly called the Sevejiteen-years 

 Locust, .... 



Its frecpient appearance, . 

 Incorrectness of its name, . 

 Of the Locust, mentioned in the 



Scriptures, ... 

 Of the Lyerman, 

 Metamorphosis of Cicadas, 

 The Cicada is harmless and useful, 

 Species of the Cicadas, 

 Impositions in natural History, 

 Madame Merian, and the Lantern 



Fly, 

 Thomas Say, .... 

 Of Lice, . . . • . 

 Former opinions of them, 

 Loeuwenhoeck's observations, . 

 Phthiriasis, .... 



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