ENGLISH INDEX. 
679 
Migrations of insects, iv. 523. 
Milk produced by insects, ii. 242, 
248; iv. HO. 
Mineral substances eaten by in- 
sects, i. 235, 380. 
Mite, autumnal, or harvest bug, i. 
96, 103: bee, 163: beetle, iv. 
234: cheese, i. 229, 310; Hi. 
107: dysentery, i. 89: flour, 
228 : itch, 90 : milk, 88 : spi- 
der, iv. 236: spinning or red spi- 
der, i. 203 : strawberry, ii. S07 : 
vegetating, i. 392 ; iv. 234. 
Mites that infest collections of in- 
sects, &c. how best destroyed, 
iv. 140. 
Mitys, what? ii. 479. 
Mole-cricket, ravages of, i. 193 : 
nest of, ii. 254: a burrower, 362: 
whether luminous, 416: won- 
derful apparatus for moving its 
arms, iii. 584. 
Monomerous insects, iii. 684. 
Moses, knowledge of insects, i. 
22; iv. 430. 
Mosquito, a Simulium, i. 112, 118. 
See Gnat. 
Moth, aquatic, iv. 56 : barley, i. 
174: brown-tail, 206, 209: 
clothes', 232, 462: emperor, 
836 ; ii. 248 : figure-of-eight, i. 
199: fir, 131 ; ii. 22: fur,i. 233: 
ghost or hop, 183 ; iii. 66, 269, 
305 : gold or yellow-tail, i. 30 ; 
ii. 21, 250 : gooseberry and cur- 
rant, i. 197; ii. 446: grass, i. 
179 : great-goat, 211 ; ii. 297 ; 
iii. 119, 173, 200, 351 : lackey, 
iii. 80 : lappet, ii. 219 ; iii. 99 : 
lobster, ii. 251 : locust, iii. 282: 
procession, i. 130, 475 ; ii. 23 : 
prominent, iii. 151: puss, ii. 
248,250; iii. 284; iv. 221 : silk- 
worm, i. 334 ; iii. 89, 280 : ta- 
pestry, i. 233 : tiger, ii. 223, 
249; iii. 175: wax, i. 165, 388 : 
wolf, i. 172 : wool, i. 233. 
Moth, remarkable brush of, iv. 60: 
one resembling a caterpillar, 
165. 
Mothing, seasons of, iv. 524. 
Moths, certain that construct cu- 
rious habitations, i. 454, 462 ; 
ii. 471 : minute, how to be taken, 
iv. 540. 
greasy, how to restore, iv. 
145. 
Mouffet, iv. 439. 
Moulting. See hisects. 
Muscles of insects, origin of, iv. 1 75: 
substance of, 175: shape, 177: 
colour, 178: kinds, 178: point 
of attachment, 179: motions, 
180: muscles of larvae, 181 : of 
imago head and organs, 182 : of 
trunk, 184: of wings, 186: 
of abdomen, 191 : of viscera, 
193. 
■ , of Arachnida, iv. 194. 
Myriapods, have six legs only at 
first, iii. 23 : analogues of ser- 
pents, 40 ; iv. 418. 
Myrtle, attacked by a coccus, i. 
195. ' 
Nature, book of, Bible of man be- 
fore the fall, i. 22. 
Nectar of Jlowers, numerous in- 
sects devoted to its absorption, 
iv. 492. 
Nectarine, attacked by insects, i. 
202. 
Nerves of insects, number of, iv. 
1 5 : recurrent, 1 6. 
Nervous system of insects, mixed, 
iv. 21, 23 : changes of in their 
metamorphosis, 23. 
Nervures, of wings, iii. 292, 688. 
Net, bag, iv. 529 : fly or bat-fowl- 
ing, 531: French, 529: Mac- 
lean's, 533: Paul's, 530: landing 
or water, 534. 
Neuters, ii. 30; iv. 172. 
Nine-killer, i. 288. _ 
Nocturnal insects, i. 391 ; iv. 526. 
Noises of insects, how produced, 
ii. 376 : of beetles, &c. 386. 
See Humming. 
Nut, weevil of, i. 203. 
Nymph, i. 65: cased nymph, 67. 
Odours, insect, ii. 238; iv. 146. 
