CONTENTS, 



INTRODUCTION. 



The word Insect defined, — Brain and Nerves, — Air-pipes and Breathing- 

 holes, — Heart and Blood, 3. — Insects are produced from Eggs, 3. — Meta- 

 morplioses, — Examples of Complete Transformation, 4. — Partial Transfor- 

 mation, 5. — Larva or Infant State, Pupa or Intermediate State, Adult or 

 Winged State, G. — Head, Eyes, Antennfc, and Mouth, 7. — Thorax or 

 Chest, Wings, and Legs, — Abdomen or Hind body, 8. — Piercer and Sting, 

 8. — Number of Insects compared with that of plants. — Classification, Or- 

 ders, — Coleoptera, 9. — Orthoptera, Hemiptera, 10. — Neuroptera, Lepido- 

 ptera, Hymenoptera, 11. — Diptcra, 13. — Other Orders and Groups, 15. — 

 Remarks on Scientific Names, 17. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Beetles, — Scarabseians, 20. — Ground-Beetles, Tree-Beetles, 21. — Cockcha- 

 fers or May-Beetles, 22. — Flower-Beetles, 34. — Stag-Beetles, 37. — Bu- 

 prestians, or Saw-homed Borers, 39. — Spring-Beetles, 45. — Timber-Beetles, 

 50. — Weevils, 52. — Cylindrical Bark-Beetles, 74. — Capricorn-Beetles, or 

 Long-horned Borers, 82. — Leaf-Beetles, 103. — Criocerians, 104. — Leaf- 

 mining Beetles, 105. — Tortoise-Beetles, 107. — Chrysomelians, 108. — Can- 

 tharides, 119. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Structure and Transformations, 125. — Earwigs, 127. — Cockroaches, 128. — 

 Mantes, or Soothsayers, 129. — Walking Leaves, Spectres, — Crickets, 12!;). 

 — Mole-Cricket, 131. — Field-Crickets, 132. — Climbing-Crickets, 134. — 

 Grasshoppers, 136. — Wingless Cricket, 13G. — Katy-did, 138. — Locusts, 

 or Flying Grasshoppers, 143. 



HEMIPTERA. 



Bugs, 167. — Squash-Bug, 169. — Chinch-Bug, 172. — Plant-Bugs, 173.— 

 Harvest-Flies, 177. — Cicadas, 178. — Tree-Hoppers, 191. — Leaf-Hoppers, 

 196. — Vine-Hopper, 197. — Rose-Hopper, 199. — Bean- Hopper, 200.— 

 Aphidians, 201. — Psylla, 201. — Thrips, 204. — Plant-Lice, 205. — Ameri- 

 can Blight, 211. — Enemies of Plant-Lice, 214. — Bark-Lice, 217. 



