Index. 



347 



Packard's classification of insects, 29 

 pallidistii^nia, 94, 96 

 Panorpata, 28 

 Panorpidce, 28, 29 

 Pantala Jinvescens, 312 

 Parasites in Dragonflies' eggs, 17 

 partlienias, 221 

 pectoralis, 308 

 pennipL's, 238 

 Perl idee. 27, 28 

 //<Y(?, 190 

 /■/cA'.''/, 233 



Pigment undeveloped in wings, 2 1 7 

 Pill-boxing, 3, 8 

 pilosa, 1 7 1 

 Plaster of Paris and colour 



preservation, 324 

 Platvcncinis pcuuipes, 14, 238,277, 



296 

 platvpoda, 238 

 Platyptcra, 29 

 Phcoptcra, 28 

 Plcchiptcra, 29 



Postage of nymphs, 315 (foot-note) 



Post-clypeus, 48 



Post-costa, 51 



Posterior, as applied to the j'jarts 

 of an insect, 55 



Potaiitoi^cton, 251, 255 



Platvcitiinis pcn/iipcs, 238 



primipes, \ar. hiliiiiata, 240 

 pc/iuipes, var. lacfea, 241 



pricnitbiia, 107 



pratense, 170 



Preparation of nymph skins, 3 1 7 



Preparing for the cabinet, 319 

 emergence of nymphs, 317 



Preserving colours, 320, 321 



Principal sector, 53 



Progression, means of, in nymphs, 



33 

 Pro-notum, 49 

 propinqita. 190 

 Pro-sternum, 49 



agent, 

 13- 14- 



Protective coloration, 32 



resemblance, 125, 219, 226, 



258, 315 

 Prothorax, 49 

 Pseiido-Netiroptcra, 27 

 PsocidcE, 27, 28 

 Pterostigma, 51 

 pui/la, 238, 277, 282, 291 

 piilchcUiiiii, 277 

 piih'hriDii, 298 

 ptiniilio, 266 

 pupa, 283 

 pupilla, 271 

 Pvroxvllic spirit, as relaxin' 



328 

 Pvrrhosoina iiyniphula, 7, 8 



22,252,265,284,288,295 



232 

 teiidliim, 262 



quadrifasciata, 1 19, 190, 203, 2IO 

 Quadrilateral, the, 53 

 quadriniaciilata, 107 



R. 



Raphidiidir, 28 

 Recent Dragonflies, 10 

 Relaxing Dragonflies, 328 



agent, wood-naphtha as, 328 

 Removing Dragonflies from setting- 

 boards, care required for, 



3-^7 



Reproductive organs, 54 



Reputed British species of Dragon- 

 flies, 308 



Restoring colours undesiralile, 



3-- 

 Rhinarium, 48 



Right and left of an insect, 55 

 nvselii, 88 

 Round-leaved Sundew, Dragonflies 



caught by, 305 

 nibciluiii, 262, 266 



