INDEX. 



383 



Formicidse, 146-170, 



Fortune, good, presaged hy Acan- 

 thocinus sedilis, 73. 



Fox, how it rids itself of Fleas, 

 309; how it kills Wasps for 

 their combs, 174. 



Fractures, cobwebs for, 357. 



France, bloody-rain in, 218; 

 Crickets, 97; Cynips glecome, 

 145; Death's-head Moth, 233; 

 Lady-bird, 17; Locusts, 103- 

 130; Mantis, 83; shower of 

 insects, 365; Termites in, 132. 



Frankfort, massacre of the Jews 

 at, 218. 



Franklin and the Ants, 155. 



Freak of nature: five -winged 

 Butterfly, 230. 



Frogs killed with hot charcoal, 

 55; foot in chalk, to keep away 

 witches, 247; for sting of 

 Scorpions, 327. 



Fruit, wasps generated from rot- 

 ten, 171, 184. 



Fulgora candelaria, 256. 

 lanternaria, 255. 



Fulgoridx, 255-256. 



Funereal rites, Scarab connected 

 with, 33, 36. 



Funerals, Bees invited to, 187. 



Gad-fly, 291. 



Gallerucidpe, 74. 



Galleria cereana, 249. 



Gall-flies, 143-145. 



Galls, 143-145. 



Gambaia, Lice in, 317. 



Garlic, to keep away Scorpions, 

 327. 



Gasterophilus hsemorrhoidalis, 302. 



Generation of Fleas, 305; Flies, 

 290; Gnats, 278; Scorpions, 

 321; Spiders, 362; Wasps, 171, 

 184. 



Geography, study of, from cabi- 

 net of insects, 369. 



Geometridx, 248. 



Geotrupes stercorarius, 28, 44. 



Germany, Agaric-Gnat in, 286; 

 Ants, 159; Blister-flies, 63; 

 bloody-rain, 218; Butterflies, 

 225 ; Canker-worms,248 ; Crick- 



ets, 96; Gall-flies, 143; Lady- 

 bird, 17; Stag-beetle, 25;. Ty- 

 pographer-beetle, 61. 



Ghosts, Glow-worms supposed to 

 be, 56. 



Gilded-Dandy, 23. 



Gleanthus and the Ants, 154. 



Glow-worms, 55-58, 339. 



Gnats, 52, 194, 278-286. 



Goat, blood of, to destroy Fleas, 

 308; fat of, for sting of Scor- 

 pions, 325 ; gall of, in medicine, 

 210; liver of, to drive away 

 Moths, 243; maggots in the 

 brain of, 302. 



Gods, earthen, made of clay of 

 Ant-hills, 135. 



Gold-beetles, 23. 



Golden-Bees in tomb of Childeric, 

 196. 

 Fleece, search after the, 

 241. 



Gold obtained from Ants in In- 

 dia, 146. 



Goldsmiths, clay of Ant-hills used 

 by, 135. 



Good foretold by Ants, 152. 



Friday, Bees removed on, 

 185. 



Goose-quill, Spider in, for Ague, 

 358. 



Gorilla put to rout by Ants, 157. 



Gossamer, 347. 



Gout, Ants remedy for, 162; Oil- 

 beetles, 63; Spiders, 359. 



Granada, Ants in, 167. 



Grasshoppers, 98-100, 251. 



Gray, characteristics of Linnoean 

 orders of insects, turned into 

 hexameters by, 363. 



Greece, silk-worms in, 237. 



Greek, study of, from names of 

 insects, 369.. 



Greeks, Ants in divination by, 

 152; Bees, 178; Buprestis as 

 food by, 51; Egyptian Scarab 

 adopted by, 39; estimation of, 

 for Cicadas, 250; Grasshoppers 

 eaten by, 98; knowledge of silk, 

 235 ; larvse eaten by, 27 ; Man- 

 tis in soothsaying by, 83. 



Grou-grou worm, 68-70. 



