CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The word Insect defined, — Brain and nerves, — Air-pipes and Breathing- 

 holes, — Heart and Blood, 4. — Insects are produced from Eggs, — Meta- 

 morphoses, — Examples of Complete Transformation, 5. — Partial Trans- 

 formation, 6. — Larva or Infant State, Pupa or Intermediate State, Adult, 

 or Winged State, 7. — Head, Eyes, Antennae, and Mouth, 8. — Thorax or 

 Chest, Wings and Legs, — Abdomen or Hind-body, 9. — Piercer, and 

 Sting, — Number of Insects compared with Plants, — Classification, Or- 

 ders, Coleoptera, 10. — Orthoptera, Hemiptera, 11. — Neuroptera, Lepi- 

 doptera, 12. — Hymenoptera, 13. — Diptera, 14. — Other Orders and 

 Groups, 17. — Remarks on Scientific Names, 19. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Beetles, — Scarabaeians, 21. — Ground-Beetles, Tree-Beetles, 22. — Cock- 

 chafers or May-Beetles, 23. — Flower-Beetles, 35. — Stag-Beetles, 38. — 

 Buprestians, or Saw-horned Borers, 40. — Spring-Beetles, 46. — Timber- 

 Beetles, 51. — Weevils, 53. — Cylindrical Bark-Beetles, 71. — Capricorn- 

 Beetles, or Long-horned Borers, 77. — Leaf-Beetles, 94. — Criocerians, 95 



— Leaf-mining Beetles, 97. — Tortoise-Beetles, 98. — Chrysomelians, 99. 



— Cantharides, 109. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Structure and Transformations, 114. — Earwigs, 116. — Cockroaches, 118. 



— Mantes, or Soothsayers, 118. — Walking-leaves, Spectres, — Crick- 

 ets, 119. — Mole-Cricket, 120. — Field-Crickets, 121. — Climbing- Crick- 

 et, 123. — Cucumber Skippers, 125. — Grasshoppers, 125. — Awl-Bearer, 

 or wingless Cricket, 126. — Katy-did, 127. — Locusts, or flying Grass- 

 hoppers, 132. 



HEMIPTERA. 



Bugs, 150.— Squash-Bug, 158. — Plant-Bugs, 160. — Harvest- Flies, 164.— 

 Cicadas, 165. — Tree-Hoppers, 177. — Leaf-Hoppers, 182. — Vine-Hop- 

 per, 183. — Bean-Hopper, 185. — Aphidians, 186. — Thrips, Plant-Lice, 187. 



— American Blight, 193. — Enemies of Plant-Lice, 196. — Bark-Lice, 198. 



