Subject Index 



Acceptance thresholds, 137-41 

 Acids, stimulation by, 126, 130-1 

 Aciliiis sulcatus, 69 

 Acronycta, 98 

 Action potential, 4 

 Adaptation, 36, 39, 44, 142, 186 



in mechanoreceptors, 32 

 Aedes, 64, 65, 157 



aegypti, 104, 105, 158, 159 



gracilis, 158 

 Aeschna, 52, 165, 169, 170, 207 



cyanea, 173 



juncea, 45, 49 

 Agriotes, 158, 159 



line at us y 158 



osbcurus, 158 

 Alcohols, stimulation by, 118, 121, 



122, 131-6 

 Alternation, 102 

 Amblycorypha oblongifolia, 89 

 Anax, 68 



Junius, 163, 164, 207 

 Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 104 

 Ant, (see Formica, Myrmica, Lasius, 



Camponotus) 

 Antenna, 8 

 Antenna, in aquatic insects, 69, 74 



in gravity response, 75, 76 



Johnston's organ, 59-62 



mechanoreceptors on, 34, 35 



olfactory receptors, 113, 125 



role in flight, 64, 65 

 Antheraea pernyi, 46, 47, 48, 49 

 Aphelocheirus, 56, 70, 72, 73 

 Apis, 64, 109, 138, 163, 170, 178, 179, 

 180, 183, 206, 209 



mellifera, 163, 170, 174, 207 



mellifica, 159 

 Apposition eye, 197-200 

 Arctia caj'a, 95 

 Arphia sulphur ea, 90 

 Axons, fusion of, 12 



Bat detection, 94, 99 

 Belostoma, 74 

 Benacus griseus, 63 



Bidessus, 191 

 Blaberus, 45 



craniifer, 183, 207 

 Blatella germanica, 158, 159 

 Blatta orientalis, 16, 157, 159 

 Blethisa multipunctata, 158, 159 

 Blidius bicornis, 75 

 Blowfly (see Phormia, Sarcophaga, 



Lucilia) 

 Bombus, 106, 170 



pennsylvanicus, 168 

 Bombyx, 125 



mori, 116, 123, 124, 125 



Calliphora, 36, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 105, 

 109, 116, 138, 139, 147, 166, 170, 

 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 181, 182, 

 187, 188, 189, 193, 194, 198, 204, 

 205, 206 

 erythrocephala, 16, 60, 127, 181 

 vomit oria, 127, 139, 144, 181 



Campaniform sensilla, 11, 13, 16, 17, 

 18, 19, 38, 40^4, 66-68, 78 



Camponotus, 109 



Carabus, 106 



Carausius morosus, 63 



Cercus, 16 

 sound receptors, 101, 102 

 sound thresholds, 101 



Cercyonis pegala, 95 



Chemoreception, 112-55 



Chemoreceptors, specificity of, 112, 

 139-45 



Chordotonal organs, 19, 20, 21, 22, 

 105-11 



Chordotonal sensilla, 52-62, 67, 78, 

 84 



Choristoneura fumiferana, 158 



Chorthippus, 92 



Chortophaga viridisfasciata, 168, 169 



Cicada (see Tibicina, Cicadetta) 



Cicadetta coriaria, 19, 84 



Cicindela, 213 



Cochliomyia americana, 127 



Cockroach (see Periplaneta, Blaberus, 

 Blatta, Blatella) 



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