CONTENTS, 



SECTION I.~SENSES OF INSECTS. 



Difficulty of the subject , . . » • 



Mistakes from hasty inferences .... 



CHAPTER I— Sense of Touch. 



The organs of touch . . . • » • 



The lee;s of spiders 



Spiders depend on other senses ... 



The spinneret, an organ of touch . . . 

 The claws . . . ' _ • • • 

 Tlie ca^hioned feet of beetles and flies . 

 The feelers (jaa/pnorantennules 

 Similar organs in birds and fish . . . 



Opinions of Bonsdorf and Lehmann . 

 The wings as organs of touch . . • 



yacts from the clouded butterfly- 

 Similar facts from the bat . . . - 

 Origin of the proverb "blind as a beetle" . 

 Sense of heat in insects . . . • 

 Spiders said to predict weather . 



Objections to this from facts. . . . 

 Kight appearance of spiders . . . • 



Appearance of insects at certain hours, 

 Jvxperimentspf Decandolle .... 

 Influence of electricity . ■• - f ■ 



Opinion of Kirby objected to , . . ' ;•■ 



CHAPTER II.— Taste in Insects. 



The organs of taste . . ... 



Rigidity of the tongue does not disprove taste . 

 Delicacy of taste in some insects 

 Instanced in the midge and in the breeze-fly 

 In the harvest bug ..... 



In a parasite mite ...... 



Parasites leave an animal previous to death 

 Fly poisons . , . . . * 



Bees gather honey from poisonous flowers 

 History of poisonous honey . . . • 



Poisonous British honey . ... 



Illustration from oxalic acid . . • • 



. Moisture in the human organs of taste , 



Curious procedure in the fly ... . 



Salivary vessels in insects , . » « 



