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Second Section, Heteromevans— continued. 

 Theii- habits .... 

 Earwigs ..... 

 Cockroaches 



Leaf insects, their singular appearance 

 Leaping orthoptera 

 House cricket .... 

 Grasshoppers .... 

 Locusts, formidable by their numbers 

 Mole-cricket, singular adaptation of its 

 habits assigned to it . 

 Order Xeuroptera, how distinguished . 



Dragon flies, tlieir brilliant appearance, 



guise in an earlier stage of existence 

 Predatory habits. 



May flies, " duns " and " drakes " . 

 Scorpion flies .... 

 Ant lions ..... 

 Their singular pit-fall . 

 Lace-winged flies 

 Their larvai named aphis-lions 

 Theu- curious disguise. 

 Stone flies ..... 



White ants .... 



Congregate in societies 



They work concealed from observation 

 Sometimes construct towers . 



Labourers and neuters, winged males and females 



Their curious economy 

 Order Hvmenoptei-a .... 



Saw flies ..... 



Cuckoo flies .... 



Their office in creation 



Gall flies lay their eggs in leaves or ten( 

 Second Section of Hymeuopterous Insects 



Ants, their societies 



Their dwellings 



Wasps, their constructions . 



Bees, their societies 



Their difterent employments 



Their various cells . . . 



Humble bees .... 

 Order Strepsiptera, or Bee Parasites . 



Stylops 



Stylopized bees 



Order Lepidoptera .... 



How recognizable 



Larva, pupa? .... 



Classification of lepidoptera 



Diurnal lepidoi^tera 



Butterflies .... 



True butterflies, how distinguished 



Chrysalids, whence their name 



Crepuscularia .... 



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