GENERAL INDEX. 



ADMIRAL butterflies, 262 

 Aleppo galls, 177 

 American blight, 305 

 Ants, 188 



as architects, 197 



as cattle-owners, 194 



as friends, 191 



as nurses and parents, 192 



as slave-owners, 195 



as soldiers, 195 



care for their dead, 192 



do not store grain, 200 



used in divination, 8 



in Eastern mythology, 8 



(tradition concerning) in Ceylon, 8 



(social), 190 



(solitary). 201 



(larvae of), 56 

 Ant baths, 198 

 Ants' nests, acid in, 198 



,, beetles in, 76 199 

 Ant vinegar, 199 

 Antenna of insects, 28 

 Aphis, 303 



wings of, 52 



in Polar seas, 306 

 Asparagus beetle, 93 



larva of. 99 



BACON beetle, hair of, 74 

 Bark-lice, 309 

 Bark-mining beetle, 90 

 Bath-white butterfly, 261 

 Bees (and see Hive Bees), 



table of, 253 



cuckoo, 222, 231, 244 



hairy-bellied, 236 



hairy-legged, 241 



hive, 245 



humble, 243 



temper of, 244 



leaf-cutter, 239 



Bees, long-tongued, 231 



mason, 236 



parasitic, 222, 231, 244 



short-tongued, 224 



eyes, 26, 357 



legs, 222, 248 



mouth, 32 



wings, 49 



hooks on, 50, 208 



larvae, 56 



pupae, 57 



nests, 236 



food of, 249 



products of, 248 



enemies of, 249 



stingless, in Mexico, 247, n. 



how to find specimens of queen, 

 248 



in Egyptian hieroglyphs, 4 



in the East a symbol of fecun- 

 dity, 5 



on Grecian and Ephesian coins, 6 



omens of future eloquence, 7 



used as a badge by ancient kings 

 of France, 4 



superstitions concerning, 7 



in heraldry, 8 

 Beebread, 248 

 Beefly, 357 

 Beetles (and see Water Beetles) 



table of, 103 



bacon, 74 



bloody- nosed, 94 



bombardier, o"S 



burying, 72 



death-feigning, 77 



dung, 78 



musk, 92 



oil, 87 



pill, 77 



scavenger, 72 



