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CONTENTS. 



Singular form of the mantis . • • « 

 Illustration from the rabbit . . . 



Dragon flies ....•• 



Inappropriate names .... 



Voracity of termites ..... 

 Smeathman's account .... 

 Verified by Ksempfer and Percival » . 

 Attack upon a ship of the line . . 



Attaclc Uj ^ tlie piers at Bridlington . . 



CHAPTER VII.— Lapping Insects 



Manner in which quadrupeds lap . , . 



Lapping of ants ...... 



Tongue of the bee and its sheath 



Muscles of the bee's tongue .... 



Form adapted to the nectaries of flowers . 

 Difference in the structure of wasps 



CHAPTER VIIL— Sucking Insects, 



Structure of the suckers in insects . 



Suclser of aphis qufircus .... 



History of the American blight . . 



Account of, by Mr. Knapp .... 



Singular mistake of Mr. Swainson 



Savigny's theory respecting the suckers of insect 



Origin of the word bug .... 



History of the bed-bug ..... 



Spirited description of, by Goldsmith 



Sucker of the water-bug .... 



Muscular strength of the flea , 



Fleas kept for amusement . .| . . 



Sucker of the flea 



Quaint description from Mouffet . 



Anecdote of Christina, Queen of Sweden . 



Preventive of fleas ..... 



Chigoe of the West Indies 



Dangerous experiment by a friar ... 



Danger of gnat bites .... 



Description from Pliny .... 



Observations of Reaumur .... 



Sucker of the gnat described . . . 



Mode of its operation .... 



Only female gnats bite .... 



Mistakes of Kirby and Svvammerdam 



Extraordinary accounts of gnats . . 



j Irish gnats ...... 



Gadflies and cleg ..... 



Observations of Reaumur .... 



Savigny's theory ....*• 



Objections thereto , . • . • 



SECTION III. -SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC HABITS OF 



INSECTS. 



. CHAPTER IX.— Pairing of Insects. ] 



Causes of sociality . . . . • . • 



Illustrated from spiders, quadrupeds, and birds 



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