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INDEX 



Cricket, Italian, the, 130-5 

 Appearance of, 130 

 Song of, 131-4 



D 



Dermestes, victims of arum, 

 232 



Dioscorides on the Cigale, 29 



Diptera, 168, 172 



Dog, its love of stenches, 233 

 Scent of the, 220-22 

 A truffle-hunter, 218-20 



E 



Elephant-Beetle (Balaninus of 

 Acorn-Weevil), 238-57 



Boring acorns, habit of. 

 240-4 



Eggs, method of laying, 245, 



254-7 

 Motives in boring, 246-50 



Snout of, 238-9 

 Emperor Moth, see Great Pea- 

 cock Moth 

 Empusa pauperaia, see Mantis 

 Eucores, 176 



(lolden Gardener, the, 102-19 

 Cannibal habits of, 111-19 

 Courtship of, 103-10 

 Ferocity of, 101-4, io8-io 

 Nutriment of, 102-10 

 Vermin killer, as a, 107 



Grandville, illustrates La Fon- 

 taine's fables^ a 



H 



Halictus, 176, 178 

 Haricot bean, the, 282-9 

 Haricot- Weevil, the. see Weevil 



Heredia, J.-M. de, 287-90 

 Hydnocystus, a fungus, 228 

 Hymenoptera, habits of, 137-8 ; 



150, 162, 171-2, 175-6 

 La Fontaine, fable of the Cigale 



and the Ant, 3 



I Locust, Grey, the, 300-16 

 Larva of, 300 

 Metamorphosis of, 300-9 

 Wing, formation of, 309-15 



M 



Mantis, the Empusa pauperaia, 



97 

 Mantis, the Grey, 96 



Mantis, the Praying, 68-101 



Cannibalism of, 82-5 



Courtship, 79-83 



Hunter, as, 68-78 



Nest of, 86-101 

 Melolonthafullo, see Pine-chafer 

 Minotaur, 225 



O 



Oak-Eggar, the, 202-16, 234-7 

 Experiments as to sense of 



smell in males, 208-15 

 Swarming of males during 

 the mating season, 204-15 

 Odynerus, 150-1, 172 

 Osmia tricornis, 173, 175 



Pea, ancestry of the, 258-9 

 Pea- Weevil, see Weevil 

 Peacock Moth, the Great, 179- 

 201, 234-7 

 Appearance of, 179 

 Experiments as to sense of 

 smell in males. 184-97 



