CONTENTS. Vv 
erpillars, the purest Socialists, 170.—Of the American Tent-Cater- 
pillar, 171.—Their Injuries, 172.—How to Destroy them, 172.— 
Of the Wood-Tent Caterpillar, 173.—Their Webs for economical 
purposes, 173.—Of the Span-Worms, 173.—Singularity of their 
Legs, 174. —Of the Canker-Worm, 174.—Its Ravages, 175.—Its 
Metamorphosis, 175.—Of the Lime-Tree Span- Worm, 175.—Doc- 
tor Harris’s Remedies against the Injuries of these Insects, 176.— 
Remedy of the “Manchester Guardian,” 178.—Of the Apple- 
Worm, 179.—Astonishing Phenomenon, 180.—Of the Bee-Moth, 
181.—Power of its Caterpillar, 181.—Operation of these Insects 
in a Bee-Hive, 182._-Experiments on them, 182.—Means to De- 
stroy them, 183.—Of the White Corn-Worm, or Grain-Moth, 184, 
—lIts Transactions, 184.—Abundance of them in Carolina, 185.— 
Their Depredations, 185.—Means of destroying them, 185.—Of 
the Carpet-Moth, 186.—Remedies against their Injuries, 186.— 
Of Hawk-Moths or Sphinxes, 187.—Explanation of this Name, 
187.—Of the Potato-Worm, 189.—Its frequent Destruction by 
Ichneumon-Flies, 190.—How the Humming of Hawk-Moths is 
produced, 190.—Terror produced in Europe by the Death’s-Head 
Hawk-Moth, 191.—Of the Four-Horned Sphinx, 192.—Of the 
Humming-Bird Sphinx, 193.—Of the Satellitia, 193.—Of Butter- 
flies (Diurnal Lepidoptera), 194.—Works on Lepidopterous In- 
sects, 195.—Injury and Use of them, 196.—Names of Butterflies, 
197.—Countess Ragowska teaching her Children Geography, His- 
tory, and Botany by means of an Entomological Cabinet, 197.— 
Classification of Lepidoptera by Linneus, 199.—Character of the 
Genus Colias, 199.—Colias Philodice, 199.—Colias Edusa, 200.— 
Colias Chrysotheme, 200.—Character of the Genus Melitea, 200. 
—Melitza Phaéton, 200.— Melitwa Tharos, 200.— Character of 
the Genus Vanessa, 201.—Vanessa Antiope, or Mourning-Cloak, 
201.—Its Injury, 201.—How the Tailors in France were converted, 
202.—Vanessa Atalanta, or Admiral, or Mars, 202.—Vanessa 
Cardui, or Thistle Butterfly, 204.—Vanessa C aureum, 205.— 
Vanessa Progne, 205.—Vanessa J. album, 205.—Vanessa Mil- 
berti, 205.— Vanessa Ccenia, 205.— Vanessa Huntera, 205.— 
Character of the Genus Papilio, 206.—Trojan and Greek Knights, 
206.—The Royal Highness and the German Peasant in New York, 
206.—Destiny of old Butterflies, 206.—Use of the Aerial Knights, 
206.—Their Tentacula, 207.—The Asterias Butterfly, 207.—Its 
Caterpillars called Parsley Worms, 208.—The Troilus, 208.—The 
Philenor, 209.—The Ajax, 209.—The Calchas, 210.—The Poly- 
damas, 210.—Generie Character of the Danaus, 211.—Danaus 
Berenice, 211.—The Argynnis Idalia, 212.—The Argynnis Diana; 
Cybele; Columbina; Myrina; Ossianus; Polaris; Chariclea; 
Bellona, 213. 

Orper V.—NET-WINGED INSECTS (NEUROPTERA). 
Definition of them, 214.—Letter of Dr. Harris respecting their Clas- 
sification, 214.—The Dragon-Fly, 217.—Description of it, 217.— 
Its Utility, 218.—Heroism of a young Student, 219.—Note re- 
ceived from a Lady, 220.—Division of Dragon-Flies into three 
Genera, 221.—The Genus Libellula, 222.—The Genus Aéshna, 
