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Index 



Butterflies, collection at 

 Smithsonian Institution, 2 



Butterfly envelopes, 48 

 family, 54, 62 

 nets, 30, 42 



Carrion beetles, 221 

 Caterpillars, 154 

 Caterpillar hunters, 218 

 Cecropia miller, giant, 75, 



77 

 Chloroform bottle, 39 

 Cicada, 281 



Clear-wing millers, 115, 116 

 Cloth moths, 142 

 Clymeme tiger miller, 130 

 Coleoptera, 190, 191 

 Collecting beetles, where and 



how, 195 

 Collecting insects, equipment 



for, 30, 33, 34, 36 

 Collecting nets, 42 

 Collection of Butterflies at 



Smithsonian Institution, 2 

 Comparing a beetle with a 



boy, 18 

 Conclusion of moth talk, 144 

 Copper and blue gossamers, 



168 

 Cuckoo-spit, 280 

 Cut-worm millers, 140 

 Cyanide bottles, 38 

 Cynthia miller, 89, 91 



Dead-beat stylops, 251 

 Destructive skin eaters, 226- 

 238 

 Buffalo beetles, 226 

 Black carpet beetle, 229 

 Stag beetles, 231 

 Goldsmith beetles, 234 

 Di\ing beetles, 204 

 Doodle trap, 196, 197 

 Drying boards, 30, 36, 40 



Ehn beetle, 261 

 Emperor miller, 101, 103 

 Envelopes for butterflies, 48 

 Equipment for collecting in- 

 sects, 30, 33, 34, 36 



Fire-flies, 247 

 Fruit borers, 115 



Giant cecropia miller, 75, 77 



night-butterflies, 66 



water-bug, 294 

 Goat-beetles, 256 

 Goldsmith beetles, 234 

 Gossamers, 168 

 Grape-vine beetle, 236 

 Grasping a Uve beetle, 6 

 "Gray-backs," 273 

 Great leopard miller, 131 

 Green-clouded swallow-tail 



butterfly, 161 

 Grub-worms, 194 



