Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER Vn.— ANTS. 



Their Industry— Affection for their Young— Courage— Their Anger 

 —Unite in MjTiads for War and Extermination— The Fallow- 

 Ants— The Sanguine Ants— Tlie Legionary Ants— Attack other 

 Ants, and reduce them to Slavery 118 



CHAPTER Vra.— TERMITES, or WHITE ANTS. 



Their Destructiveness— Clear the Ground of all dead vegetable 

 Matter— Societies composed of four sorts of Individuals— Eaten 

 as Food by the Indians— Appear in countless Myriads at the end 

 of the Rainy Season — Prodigious Fertility of the Queen — Size, 

 Form, and interior Arrangements of their Hills— Marching Ants 145 



CHAPTER IX.— PARASITICAL INSECTS. 



Gall Insect— Cochineal Insect— The Scarlet Colour used in Dyeing 161 



CHAPTER X.— APHIS, or PLANT-LOUSE. 



Every Tree, every part of a Tree, has its peculiar Species— Suck 

 vegetable Juices — Shelter themselves from bad Weather in the 

 concave parts of Leaves 176 



CHAPTER XL 



Gnat— Bug— Flea— Chigoe— Louse— Mites and Ticks— Gad-fly. ... 190 

 CHAPTER Xn. 



Ichneutnon-Fly— Its Eggs deposited in the Bodies of other Living 

 Insects — Deposites thirty or forty in the Body of a Caterpillar— 

 Dragon-Fly— Its Voracity— Ferocity 208 



CHAPTER XIU.— THE ANT-LION. 



Forms a (\innel-8haped Excavation in the Sand— Uses its Leg like 

 a Shovel to remove the Sand— Secures its Prey ty Stratagem— 

 Its Ingenuity and Perseverance in getting rid of Impediments- 

 Spins a Cocoon, and is Transformed into a Beautiful Fly— The 

 Lion- Worm 21 



CHAPTER XIV.-THE SPIDER. 



Its Spinning Apparatus— Its Web— The Hawk-Spider— The Gar 

 den-Spider— The Water-Spider— The Huntintr-Spider— Gossa- 

 mer-Spider — Fen-Spider — Attachment of the Spider to its Young 228 



