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CONTENTS 



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UTiiORS Quoted. 



t| COLEOPTERA— BEETLES. 



occinellidre — Lady-birds 17 



hrysomelidie — Grold-beetles... 23 



arabidae 23 



ausidge 23 



ermestidse — Leather-beetles 24 



Liucanidge — Stag-beetles 24 



icaraba3idae — Dung-beetles 27 



f)ynastida3 — Hercviles-beetles, etc 45 



delolonthidce — Cock-chafers 47 



yOtoniidse — Rose-chafers 49 



^uprestidee — Burn-cows 50 



lateridaj — Fire-flies, Spring-beetles, etc 51 



ampyridte — Glow-worms 55 



tinidoe — Death-watch, etc 58 



jostrichidge — Typographer-beetle, etc 61 



Dantharidffi — Blister-flies 62 



Tenebrionidae — Meal-worms 65 



lapsidte — Church-yard-beetle, etc 65 



^urculionidae — Weevils 68 



^erauibycidae — Musk-beetles 72 



^alerucidce — Turnip-fly, etc 74 



EUPLEXOPTERA» 



?orficulidge — Ear- wigs 76 



ORTHOPTERA. 



31attid9e — Cockroaches 78 



\Iantidfe — Soothsayers, etc 82 



l^chetidge — Crickets 92 



ryllid^e — Grasshoppers 98 



Locustidse — Locusts 101 



NEUROPTERA. 



rermitidfe— White-ants 132 



Sphcmcridgo — Day-flies 138 



Libellulidoe — Dragon-flies 138 



Vlyrmeleonidge — Ant-lions 141 



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