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Page. 

 Of the Bed-bug, . . .112 

 Its native country, . . . 112 

 Kotzebue's narrative of the Persian 



Bug 113 



The Banian hospital at Suratc . 114 

 Of the Squash-bug, ... .115 

 Its injuries and how to prevent 



them, .... 116 

 The electric Bug, . . .116 

 Of Tree-hoppers, . . . 116 

 Of Plant-lice, . . . .117 

 Of Shield-lice, or Scale insects, 119 

 Of the Cochineal, . . .122 

 Natural History of it, . . 123 

 Commerce with it, . . . 126 

 Women's rights, . . . 127 



Of the Shell-lac-shield-louse, . 127 

 Use made of Shell-lac, . . 128 

 Injuries, done by Shield-lice, . 129 

 Remedies against their ravages, 129 

 Murder and liberty, . . 130 



Page, 

 Of Cockroaches, . . . .165 

 Of Earwigs, . . . . 166 

 Of Soothsayers, ... . 167 



Popular superstitions with regard 



to them, . . . . 168 

 St. Francis Xavier, . . .168 

 They are worshipped by the Hot- 

 tentots, . . . . 169 

 Use made of them by the Chinese, 171 



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General deficiency in the knowledge 

 of Natural History, 



Bayard Taylor's writings, 



The N.Y. Daily Tribune, . 



( latalogues of our Colleges, . 



Cabinets of Natural History in our 

 Colleges, . . . .133 



The breeches and the Tobacco-pipe, 133 



How a cabinet of N. H. can be 

 established, . . 134 



Peter Cooper, the philanthropist, 136 

 Order hi. Orthopxera. 



Of Grasshoppers, . . .137 



Their natural history, . . 137 



Their use and injury, . . 138 



Remedy against warts, . . . 139 



Their diseases, . . . 139 



Of the Carolina Grasshopper, . 140 



i scfulness of reptiles with respect 

 to the destruction of Grasshop- 

 pers, .... 141 

 Devastations, caused by them in 

 the old < lontinent, . . . 142 



Kiibv and Spencc's account of 



them, .... 1 4". 



i'lie migratory Grasshopper in the 



South of Russia, . . .146 

 Of the Katy-did and other kindred 



species, .... 150 

 Marvelous Btories, . . 154 



Of Crickets, ■ .157 



of the Tree-cricket, . . . 158 

 < >f the Field-cricket, . . 160 



Of the House-cricket, . . .161 

 Of the Mole-cricket, . . 164 'Index, 



Their usefulness, 



The Walking-stick, 



Thomas Say, the American Ento- 

 mologist, .... 

 Order iv. Lepidoptera. 



The most splendid department of 

 Entomology, . 



Variety in Nature 



Rank of Lepidoptera, 



Definition of them, 



Of Caterpillars, 



Their metamorphosis, 



Use of them, for making silk, var- 

 nish, dyestuff, and as food for 

 birds, .... 



Raising of Caterpillars, 



Their immense multiplication, 



Destruction of them by birds and 

 other insects, 



Of silk and the Silk-worm, 



Number of feet of Caterpillars 



Color and size of them, 



Their food, - 



Hermits and Socialists among 

 them, ..... 



Single parts of a Caterpillar; head, 

 body, spinning apparatus, 



Single parts of Lepidoptera; wings, 

 head, feelers, proboscis, 



Division of Lepidoptera into noc- 

 turnal and diurnal, . 



Of nocturnal Lepidoptera, . 



( >f the Saturnia Io, 



Of the Silkworm-moth, 



The raising of it, a source of na- 

 tional wealth, 



Silk, manufactured in the ancient 

 times, .... 



Castcllas's gigantic silk establish- 

 ment in Tiflis, ( Russian Trans- 

 caucasia,) 

 Rapp's Economy, in Pittsburg, 

 Silk stud's by indigenous North 



American Moths, 

 India silk produced from the co- 

 coons of other moths, 



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