CONTENTS. 



Structure of the Grub 

 Fonrir^lion of its traps 

 Keflections upon the economy of Nature 

 CHAPTER XII. 

 Clothes-Moth Caterpillars _ . 

 Varieties in the species 

 Methods of destroying . • 



Mode of building 

 Experiments upon 

 Migrations of . . . 



Tent-M aki.g Caterpillars 



Mode of constructing these 

 Experiments upon . . 



Tent upon a Nettle-leaf 

 Stone-Mason Caterpillars 



Their singular proceedings 

 Colony of, at Blackheath 

 Foundation of their Tents 

 An attempted robbery 

 Muff shaped Tents 

 Their utility 

 Leaf-Mininff Caterpillars 



On tlie leaf of the Monthly Rose-tree 

 On t!>e leaf of tlie Bramble 

 On the leaf of the l^rimrose 

 Vine leaf Miner 

 On tlie leaf of the Alder 

 Social Leaf-Miners 

 Bark-mining Caterpillars 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 Structures of Crickets 

 House-Cricket 

 The Mole-Cricket 

 The Field-Cricket 

 Mode of depositing eggs 

 Beetles ..... 

 The Burying-Beetle 

 The Dung-Beetle . 

 Its cleanliriess . 

 The Rose-Chafer . 

 The Tumble-dung Beetle 

 The Necklace-Beetle 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 Architecture of Ants . 



Their genuine history begun by Gould 

 Mason-ants ...» 

 Structures of Turf-Ants 

 Winter nest of Yellow-Ants 

 Sort of earth employed in building 

 Proceedings of the Brown-Ant . 



