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CHAPTER VII.— ANTS. 



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 Their Industry— Affection for their Young — Courage— Their Anger 

 — Unite in Myriads for War and Extermination — The Fallow 

 Ants — The Sanguine Ants— The Legionary Ants— Attack other 

 Ants, and reduce them to Slavery 118 



CHAPTER VIII.— TERMITES, or WHITE ANTS. 



Their Destructiveness — Clear the Ground of all dead vegetable 

 Matter — Societies composed of four sorts of Individuals — Eaten 

 as Food by the Indians — Appear in countless Myriads at the end 

 of the Rainy Season — Prodigious Fertility of the Queen — Size, 

 Form, and interior Arrangements of their Hills — Marching Ants 145 



CHAPTER IX.— PARASITICAL INSECTS. 



Gall Insect — Cochineal Insect — The Scarlet Colour used in Dyeing 161 



CHAPTER X.— APHIS, or PLANT-LOUSE. 



Every Tree, every part of a Tree, has its peculiar Species— Suck 

 vegetable Juices — Shelter themselves from bad Weather in the 

 concave parts of Leaves l~fe 



CHAPTER XL 



Gnat— Bug — Flea— Chigoe — Louse— Mites and Ticks— Gad-fly . . . . 190 



CHAPTER XII. 



Ichneumon-Fly — Its Eggs deposited in the Bodies of other Living 

 Insects — Deposites thirty or forty in the Body of a Caterpillar— 

 Dragon-Fly— Its Voracity — Ferocity 208 



CHAPTER XIII.— THE ANT-LION. 



Forms a funnel-shaped Excavation in the Sand— Uses its Leg like 

 a Shovel to remove the Sand — Secures its Prey by Stratagem- 

 Its Ingenuity and Perseverance in getting rid of Impediments — 

 Spins a Cocoon, and is Transformed into a Beautiful Fly — The 

 Lion- Worm 21 



CHAPTER XIV.— THE SPIDER. 



Its Spinning Apparatus— Its Web— The Hawk-Spider— The Gar 

 den-Spider — The Water-Spider — The Hunting-Spider — Gossa- 

 mer-Spider— Fea-Spider— Attachment of the Spider to its Young 22o 



