INDEX. 



Afronautic flight of spiders, 140. 



Aiiisopteryx poinetaria, IV-i; A. vernata, 113. 



Ants, cuttingr, 230 sq.\ agricultural, 340; superstitions about, 347; 

 agricultural, 331; stinging, 335; undergrade road of Formica 

 Integra in Fairmount Park, 337; Solomon and ant; 340, 349; har- 

 vesting ants, 341; Occident ant, 344, 346; Pennsylvania harvester, 

 348; cai-penter, 436; fuscous and slave-making, 437. 



— Agricultural ants, cutting grass, 331; cleared disks or pavements, 



334; stinging ants, 335; ant clearing among weeds, 336; road- 

 making, 337; gathering seed, 343; granaries, 343; mode of eat- 

 ing, 345. 



— Cutting ants, 230; males, females, and workers, 337; queen strips 



off wings, 238; nests, 339; leaf -carrying, 343; mode of cutting, 

 844; head of, 245; opening formicary, 353; caves of, 355; leaf- 

 paper combs, 257; use of combs, 259; jaws or mandibles, 359; 

 trees attacked, 260; engineering skill, 263; underground routes, 

 264; closing gates, 266; opening gates, 267; gate engineering, 

 268; digging and dumping, 271; modes of destroying, 374. 



^ Occident ants (Pogonomyrme.x occidentalis), mound of, 344; gran- 

 aries and storerooms, 346; gathering seeds, 347. 



Argiope fasciata's cocoon, 35; snare, 37; decorations of web, 38. 



Argiope riparia, 14; description and distribution, 17; figure of snare 

 and spider, 16; figure of cocoon, 31; cocoon, 30; name deriva- 

 tion, 60. 



.^rgyroneta aquatica, 207. 



Apple-worm, 91, 94. 



Atta fervens, 246. 



Bag -WORMS, see Basket- worms. 



Ballooning spiders, 198. 



Basket-worms, superstitions about, 381 ; food plants, 384 ; specific 

 name, 384; figures of baskets, 385 sy.; seeking food, 387; mode of 

 attaching scraps, 388; manner of eating, 389; walking, 394; pro- 

 tective habit, 397; wingless female, 398; mating, 399. 



Beads, viscid, of spiders, 317. 



Bee, humble, nest of, 145; history of, 145-184; see Humble-bee. 



Bee, leaf-cutting, description, 406; species of, 406; nest-making 

 habits, 407; figures of nest, 409; furnishing the cells, 411. 



