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CHAPTER VII. -ANTS, 



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Their Industry Affection for their Young Courage Their Anger 

 Unite in Myriads for War and Extermination The Fallow 

 Ants The Sanguine Ants Tlte Legionary AntsAttack other 

 Ants, and reduce them to Slavery 118 



CHAPTER Vm. TERMITES, OR WHITE ANTS. 



Their Destructiveness Clear the Ground of all dead vegetable 

 Matter Societies composed of four sorts of Individuals Eaten 

 as Food by the Indians Appear in countless Myriads at the end 

 of the Rainy Season Prodigious Fertility of the Queen Size, 

 Form, and interior Arrangements of their Hills Marching Ants 145* 



CHAPTER IX. PARASITICAL INSECTS. 



Gall Insect Cochineal Insect The Scarlet Colour used in Dyeing 161 

 CHAPTER X. APHIS, OR PLANT-LOUSE. 



JEvery Tree, every part of a Tree, has its peculiar Species Suck 

 vegetable Juices Shelter themselves from bad Weather in the 

 concave parts of Leaves 176 



CHAPTER XL 



Gnat Bug Flea Chigoe Louse Mites and Ticks Gad-fly. ... 190 

 CHAPTER XII. 



Ichneumon-Fly Its Eggs deposited in the Bodies of other Living 

 Insects Deposites thirty or forty in the Body of a Caterpillar 

 Dragon-Fly Its Voracity Ferocity 208 



CHAPTER XIII. THE ANT-LION. 



Forms a funnel-shaped Excavation in the Sand Uses its Leg like 

 a Shovel to remove the Sand Secures its Prey by Stratagem 

 Its Ingenuity and Perseverance in getting rid of Impediments- 

 Spins a Cocoon, and is Transformed into a Beautiful Fly The 

 LION- WORM 21 



CHAPTER XIV. THE SPIDER. 



Its Spinning Apparatus Its Web The Hawk-Spider The Gar 

 den-Spider The Water-Spider The Hunting-Spider Gossa- 

 mer-Spider Fen-Spider Attachment of the Spider to its Young 228 



