INDEX. 



38t 



Mantes, 82-92, 157. 



Ma7itidx, 82-92. 



Mantis causta, 84. 



oratoria, 82-92. 

 siccifolia, 92. 



Manure, Day-flies used as, 138. 



Maryland, Black-beetle in, 82; 

 Blacksmith-beetle, 55; Butter- 

 fly, 229; Caterpillars, 242; 

 Crickets, 95; Glow-worm, 57; 

 Grasshoppers, 100 ; Katy-did, 

 131. 



Marriage-feast, Bees invited to, 

 188.. 



Mass, Locusts in celebration of, 

 130. 



Matchlocks, Cucuji mistaken for, 

 53, 54. 



Mauritius, Wasps eaten in, 174. 



May-bugs, 47-49. 



May, swarm of Bees in, 192. 



3Ieal-worms, 65. 



Measles, Lady-bird for the, 21. 



Measuring-worms, 248. 



Medicated earth from Ants'- 

 nests, 162. 



Medicine, Ants in, 161-163; Bed- 

 bugs, 266-268; Bees, 206; 

 Blaps sulcata, 65 ; Blatta of 

 Pliny, 65-66 ; Buprestidx, 51 ; 

 Cantharides, 62-64; Caterpil- 

 lars, 245; Cochineal, 262; 

 Crickets, 97 ; Curculios, 71 ; 

 Ear-wigs, 76 ; Fleas, 311 ; Flies, 

 295; Gall-flies, 145; Glow- 

 worm, 57; Grasshoppers, 100; 

 Honey, 208; Honey-dew, 257; 

 Hornets' nest, 172; Lady-bird, 

 21; Lice, 319; Locusts, 130; 

 Musk-beetles, 73; Oil-beetles, 

 62; Scarabs, 44; Scorpions, 

 329; Silk-worms, 240; Spiders, 

 357-360; Stag-beetle, 26; Wax, 

 206, 254. 



Mediterranean, Flies in the, 287. 



Meloe, 63. 



Melolontha vulgaris, 42, 47. 



Melolonthidx, 47-49. 



Men killed by sting of Sirex, 142. 



Menstruous women, Caterpillars 

 destroyed by, 244; stung by 

 Bees, 182. 



Mercury, Scarab emblematical 

 of, 32. 



Merian, Madame, her account of 

 the Lantern fly, 255. 



Metempsychosis under form of in- 

 sects, 246. 



Mexico, Ants in, 157, 159; Cochi- 

 neal, 261 ; Cucujus, 53-54 ; 

 Lice, 316, 318; silk from a 

 Bomhyx, 239 ; Water-boatmen, 

 275. 



Mice for sting of Scorpions, 326 ; 

 generation of, 322. 



Micrometer, Spider's web for di- 

 visions of, 362. 



Midas, riches of, foretold by 

 Ants, 151. 



3fidas in head of mummy, 41. 



Migrations of Aphides, 258; Bees, 

 199; Butterflies, 225; Dragon- 

 flies, 139-140; Lady-birds, 21. 



Milk, association of Butterflies 

 with, 231. 



Millet, time to sow, indicated by 

 Glow-worms, 58, 



Milton's fondness for Crickets, 95. 



Mississippi, the Gallinipper of 

 the, 285. 



Missouri, Fleas in, S07. 



Mites, 320-321. 



Mob dispersed with Bees, 204. 



Mocking-birds, Spiders fed to, 

 357. 



Mohammed, anecdote of, 209; 

 life of, saved by Spiders, 333. 



Mole-cricket, 57. 



Manas prodigiosa, 222. 



Money-spinners, 339. 



Money eaten by Termites, 132. 



Monkeys kept to kill Roaches, 

 78; singular use of an, 156; 

 Spiders fed to, 357. 



Monk, life of, saved by a Spider, 

 341 ; poisoned Avith a Spider, 

 351. 



Month, Scarab symbol of an 

 Egyptian, 33. 



Moon, beds to be cleaned in dark 

 of, 266; horns of Stag-beetles 

 dedicated to, 26; Scarab sym- 

 bol of, 31 ; subject to, 32 ; 

 swarms of Locusts from, 118. 



