Index 



195 



Male organs of fly, 1 16. 



Malpigbian tubules of larva, 70, 108; 

 development of, 175. 



Mayer on gnats, 97. 



Meinert on two groups of Chironomus- 

 larvae, 10. 



Methods, of collecting, 7 ; of examin- 

 ing larvae, 25 ; of examining salivary 

 glands,' 69 ; of examining imaginal 

 rudiments, 121 ; of examining eggs, 

 158 ; of fixing and preserving larvae, 

 177 ; of staining and ]>reparing for 

 continuous sections, 178 ; of cutting 

 in continuous sections, 1 79 ! t*f 

 staining on the slide, 179; of 

 eelloidin sections, 180; of mount- 

 ing entire larvae, 181 ; of examin- 

 ing oesophageal valve, 182. 



Mochlonyx, 31, ?'2, 84. 



Moults of larva, 7, 132 (note). 



Mouth-parts, of fly, 99 ; development 

 of, in larva, 131. 



Miiller on sympathetic nervous system, 

 48 (note). 



Muscidae, 119, 151 ; invaginations of, 

 132. 



Nemocera, a sub-order of Diptera, 

 19 ; adaptive resemblances and 

 differences in, 23 ; leduction of 

 larval head in, 31 ; larval appen- 

 dages of, 33 ; position of larval brain 

 in, 43 ; tracheal system in larvae of, 

 81 ; blood-gills of, 84 ; tracheal 

 gills of, 84 ; ocelli of, 91 ; respira- 

 tory trumpets of, 123 ; more and 

 less primitive genera of, 131 ; pupal 

 respiratory organs of, 146. 



Nemocei-an larvae, appendages of, 33 ; 

 ti-acheal system of, Si ; blood-gills 

 of, 84 ; auditory organ of, 96. 



Nervous system of Chironomus-larva, 

 43- 



Oesophageal digestion. Plateau on, 53 ; 

 valve of larva, 53. 



Osten Sacken, on sub-orders of Diptera, 

 19 ; on Nemocera with similar 

 larvae but unlike flies, 24. 



Palmen, morphology of reproductive 



passages, no (note). 

 Parasites of larva, 4. 

 Patagia, 124. 

 Pericoma, 82, 85. 



Peritrophic membrane of larva, £^3, 



58. 



Phagocytes, 125. 



Phalacrocera, 43, 49, 82, 84. 



Phillips, Miss Dorothy, on oesophageal 

 valve of larva, 60 ; on peritrophic 

 membrane of larva, 60, 66. 



Phytomyza, 31. 



Plateau, on nomenclature of ali- 

 mentary canal of insects, 50 ; on 

 oesophageal digestion, 53. 



Ptychoptera, 43, 55, 59, 75, 82, 83, 

 146. 



Pupal organs, 139; skin, 143; stage 

 of insects, 151. 



Pupation, 138. 



Recapitulation, 10. 



Rectal papillae of fly, 107. 



Reproductive organs, of fly, 109 ; de- 

 velopment of, in larva, 135. 



Respiration, organs of, 80. 



Ritter on embryonic development of 

 Chironomus, 157. 



Rolletfe on haemoglobin in Cliiro- 

 uonius-larva, 77. 



Salivary glands of larva, 67. 

 Secretion of stomach of larva, 57, 60 



(note). 

 Sense-organs, 48. 

 Sensory setae, 35, 49. 

 Sexual germs, 159. 

 Simulium, 35, 43, 59, 61, 82, 85, 



146 ; peritrophic membrane of, 59 ; 



oesophageal valve of, 61. 

 Sounds emitted by fly, 97, 1S3. 

 StoDiach of larva, 55. 

 Stomato-gastric nerves, 48. 

 Stratiomys, 22. 



Swammerdam on transformation, 119. 

 Swarms of Chironomus-flies, 9, 183. 



Tail of pupa, 141. 



Tanypus, 7, 33, 49, 76, 84, 85, 95, 



135- 



Taylor, on Chironomus rainntu.'i, 11 ; 

 on C. nivtipennis, 13; on Ortho- 

 cladius, 14 ; on Clinocera, 34 ; on 

 Hemerodromia, 35 (note) ; on 

 swarms and buzzing, 183. 



Tentorium, 90. 



Thoracic appendage.s, development of, 

 121. 



Thorax of fly, 100. 



Tipula, 43. 



