392 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Swarms of butterflies, 266 



earwigs, 109 



gnats, 348 



insects near Deal, 159 



ladybirds, 95 



locusts, 122 



mayfly, 137 



turnip-fly, 158 

 Swifts, 271 

 Syrphus larva, 304 

 TABLE of Coleoptera, 103 



Diptera, 375 



Hymenoptera, 251 



Neuroptera, 144 



orders, 60 



Trichoptera, 150 

 Thrips, 123 

 Tiger beetle, 66 



ferocity of, 67 



mouth of, 30 



traps dug by larvae of, 99 



moths, 270 



,, larvae, 286 

 Tithonus and grasshopper, 9 



(figure of), 113 

 Tortoise beetle, 94 



larva, 99 



Tortoise-like leaf-bearer, 307 

 Tortoiseshell butterfly, 263 

 Tree wasps, 219 

 Troutfly, 135 

 Tongues of bees, 233, &c. 

 Turnip-fly, 94, 158 

 Tussoch moths, 270 



larvse, 276 



Twenty-plume moth, 275 

 VAPOUBER moth, 270 

 Violet beetle, 67 

 WAINSCOT moths, 294 



Walking-stick insects, 113 

 "Wasp-bees," 234 

 " Wasp-beetle," 93 

 Wasps, 213 



solitary, 213 



social, 214 



nest of, 215, 219 



love for young, 215 



stinging of, 218 

 Water beetle, 68 



legs, 35 



larvae, 56 



nest, 72 



spiracles, 39 



ferocity of, 69 

 Water boatmen, 316 



leg, 36 



Water measurers, 319 

 Water scorpion, 318 



pincers, 38 

 Wax, 248 

 Weevils, 89 

 Whirligig beetle, 70 



oar, 36 

 White admiral, 262 



ant, 126 



butterflies, 260 

 Willow-fly, 139 

 Wings of insects, 40 



compared with birds' wings, 20 

 Wire worm, 80 

 Wood-borers (Hymenopterous), 166 



(Coleopterous), 84, 90 

 Wood wasps, 203 

 Woolly bear, 286 

 Worship of the fly (ancient), 1 



(Hottentot), 2 

 YELLOW Ophion, 180 

 Yellow Sally, 139 



THE END. 



