CONTENTS. 



Paire 



Fleas made to draw miniature coaches . . , , 180 



Numerous muscles of the C0SSU3 182 



Its wonderful strength 1 84 



Misstatements respecting the strength of insects . . . 185 



Means of escape by spinning ...... 1S6 



Defensive hairs and spines of caterpillars .... 187 



Excrementitious covering of some lar\'ae .... 190 



Origin of the froth on plants called cuckoo-spit ... 191 



Winter covering of caterpillars 192 



Fat a probable defence against cold 195 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Voracity of caterpillars, grubs, and maggots .... 196 



Increase of weight in the silk-worm in thirty days . . 197 



Remarkable change in the capacity of the stomach . . 198 



Instances of human voracity ...... 201 



Jaws or mandibles of larvae 202 



Caterpillars ib. 



Blight caused by an oak-leaf roller ..... 203 



Ravages of the buff-tip 204 



Encamping caterpillars of the ermine-moth . . . 205 



Experiments with these i . . .... . 206 



Extraordinary ravages of the brown-tail moth . . . 208 



Strange enactment of the Parliament of Paris . . . 209 



Cause of the abundance of caterpillars in particular years . 210 

 Alarm caused in France by the gamma-moth . . .211 



Calculation of their fecundity 212 



Cabbage-caterpillars prefer weeds ..... 213 



Disappearance of the black-veined white butterfly . . 214 



Ravages of the caterpillar of the gooseberry saw-fly . . 215 



Similar ravages committed on other trees .... 216 



Slug-worm of North America ...... 217 



Turnip-fly erroneously fancied to come across the sea to Norfolk 218 



Effects of jEgeriae on currant and poplar trees . . . 220 



Destruction of grain by Kuplocami and Tineae . . . 221 



Bee-hives injured by Gallariae 222 



Caterpillar which feeds on chocolate 224 



CHAPTER IX. 



Voracity of grubs "... 225 



Grub of the cockchafer or may-biig 226 



Accountof its transformation, &c '227 



Methods of destroying 228 



Wire-worm the grub of Hemirhipus 2l'9 



Probable mistake respecting the destruction of wheat . . 231 



Pea-beetle of North America 2:^3 



Corn-weevil ......... 234 



Meal-worm, the grub of Tenebrio molitor .... ib. 



Tabby-moth caterpillar devours butter and fat . . . 236 



Intestinal worms ib. 



Mistakes of Linnaeus, Dr. Barry, and Dr. J. P. Frank . . 237 



Experiment of M. Deslonchamps ..... 238 



Extraordi^iary case of Mary Riordan, by Dr. Pickells . . 239 



Authenticity of this case proved . . . ' . . 241 



Fruit-grubs " 242 



Nut-weevil and its transformations ib. 



