132 INDEX 



Lime in cuticle, 2, 58 



in Malpighian tubes, 58 

 Linoleic acid, 69 

 Locomotion, 108 

 Locus ta, 103 

 Luciferase, 82 

 Luciferin, 82 



Lucilia, 48, 49, 70, 77, 102 

 Lymantria, 86, 99 

 lyonet, 43, 86 



Macroglossa, 49, 126 



malpighi, 12 



Malpighian tubes, 55, 58, 61 



accessory functions, 66 

 Mansonia, 26 

 Mantis, 126 

 Mating, 99 

 Mealworm, 71, 85 

 Mechanical senses, 1 1 8 

 Meconium, 59 

 Melanargia, 79 

 Melanin, 8, 79 

 Melolontha, 17, 80 

 Menotaxis, 118 

 Mesembrina, 104 

 Metabolism, 66 

 Metallic colours, 1 1 

 Metamorphosis, blood cells during, 

 33 



cause of, 87 



chemical changes during, 76 

 Metapneustic respiration, 23, 26 

 Metathetely, 88 

 Miastor, 104 

 Micropyle, 99 



MILNE EDWARDS, 56 



Mitochondria, 37 

 Morpho, 11 

 Mosquito, 25, 26, 45 

 Motor neurones, 112 

 Moulting, 7, 85 



blood cells during, 33 



cause of, 86 



digestion of cuticle, 8 



fluid, 7, 10 

 absorption of, 10 



mechanism of, 8 

 Mucus, 43 



MULLER, 108, 124 



Musca, 104, 123 



Muscles, 106 

 Mushroom bodies, 114 

 Mycetomes, 70 

 Myrmeleon, 42 



Neotenin, 87 

 Nepa, 35 

 Nephrocytes, 55 

 Nerve cord, 113 

 Nervous system, 112 

 Neuropile, 113 

 Neurosecretory cells, 86, 103 

 Notonecta, 24, 84, 118 

 Nurse cells, 98 

 Nutrition, 66 

 function of blood in, 34 



Ocelli, 123 



Oenocytes, 37, 66 



Oenocytoids, 33 



Oesophageal valve, 43 



Ommochrome, 57, 80 



Oncopeltus, 46 



Oocyte, 97 



Oogenesis, 98 



Ootheca, 99 



Orientation, 116 



Orthokinesis, 116 



Oryctes, 50 



Osmoderma, 50 



Osmoregulation, 66 



Osmotic pressure of blood, 13, 31 



Ostia, 28, 29 



Ovary, 97 



Oviposition, 98 



Oxygen supply, 14 



Paedogenesis, 104 

 Parasitic castration, 93 

 Parthenogenesis, 105 

 Pediculus, 70, 123 

 Pericardial cells, 36, 55, 66 



sinus, 27 

 Perillus, 79 

 Perineural sinus, 27 

 Perineurium, 31, 113 

 Periplaneta, 1, 20, 29, 48, 49, 71, 98, 



107, 128 

 Peritrophic membrane, 43 

 Perivisceral sinus, 27, 30 

 Phagocytes, 32 



