CONTENTS. 



What is an Insect ? 



A Mouse-catching Locust 



The Spinnincx Ant 



Insects as Human Food.. 



The Flower-like Mantids 



The Alder-Fly 



Giant Water-Bugs 



Insect ^Mushroom-growers 



The Orange-tip Butterfly 



The Hornet-Fly . . 



The Goat-Moth 



Carpenter-Bees 



Silver-Fish Insects 



Butterfly Sw.\rms 



Basket-Worms and House-I^^jui 



Nightmare Insects 



The Mud-Daubers 



Beetles : their Structure .\nd 



The Hump-backed Spider- I'ly 



The Dragon-Moth 



Frog-Hoppers and " Rain-Tree 



Earwigs 



Insects of Past Ages 



The Emperor Moth 



Spider-hunting Wasps 



Daddy Long-legs . . 



The Transformations of Insec 



Jumping Plant-Lice 



The Humble-Bee's Cuckoo 



The Apollo Butterfly . . 



Ant-Lions and Ant-Lion Flies 



The Blister-Beetlic and the 



Beetle 

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The Pasha with Two Tails 



Stick-Insects 



Ants as Spring-cleaners 



How Insects Bre.\the 



Bacon-Beetles 



Clearwings . . 



Long-horned Grasshoppers 



Digger-Wasp and Cicada 



The Bug Family 



Hawk-Moths 



A Fearless Fly that Def 



Driver-.\nt 

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 ^Iosouito-Bees 

 The Senses of Insects 

 Powder-wings 

 Scorpion-Flies 

 The Musk-Beetle and Some U 

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 The Pi:llagk.\-Fly 

 Sand-\\'.'\sps 

 Cockchafers 

 .Mole-Crickets 



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Green-I'Ty . . 



1 )URNET-MoTHS 



Wax-workers 



Fgger-Moths 



Tiger-Beetles 



Le AF-LI K E M ANTI DS 



Horned ]'"lif;s 



Tiiic Hammock-Moth 



Insect Ich.neumons 



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