INDEX 



339 



Blood-sucking insects, 186, 329 



" Blood-worms," 128, 315 



Blow-flies, 94, 106 



Blue-bottle Hies, 44 



Body-rings of insect, 31, 33 



Bombus, 280, 281, 282, 283 



Bombycidic, 89 



Bombyliida , 93 



Bombyl ins, 150 



Bombyx, 89, 332 



" Book-lice," 67 



Bot-flies, 94, 266, 323 



Brachinus, 166 



Braconida; 98 



Brain of insects, 5, 102 



Brassolina, 92 



Braulidtr, 95 



Brenthidw, 83 



Bristle-footed worms, 31 



" Bristle-tails," 60 



Bruchidw, 82 



Bruchus, 82, 198 



Bugs, 70, 209, 272, 310, 317 



Buprestida;, 80 



Butterflies, Admiral, 92 



— Apollo, 91 



— argus, 37, 38 



— bird-winged, 91 



— blue, 90, 136, 156, 165 



— brimstone, 91, 122, 192 



— " brush-feet " of, 55 



— cabbage, 91 



— Castle Eden argus, 38 



— clouded vellow, 91 



— copper, 90, 192 



— distribution, 8, 9 



— eggs of, 13 



— families of, 96 et seq. 



— flight of, 51 



— fritillary, 17, 57, 90, 92, 157 



— general characters of, 85 



— grayling, 137 



— hairstreak, 90, 130, 165 



— Kallima, 129 



— large copper, 192 



— leaf, 129 



— legs of, 54, 55 



— meadow-brown, 91 



— metamorphosis of, 17-19 



— mimicry and protective resemblance 

 in, 129, 130, 136, 152eise 2 . 



— monarch, 11, 276 



— mouth-parts of, 43 



— orange-tip, 136, 256 



— painted lady, 11 



— peacock, 140 



— purple emperor, 92, 135, 190 



— response to light by, 121 



— scales on wings of, 2 



Butterflies, sex characters of, 256 



— skipper, 90 



— snout, 90 



— swallow-tail, 91, 103, 158, 167 



— swarming of, 276 



— tortoise-shell, 139, 257 



— " white," 91, 142, 254, 258 

 Butterwort, as enemy of insects, 248 

 Byticrus, 79 



Cabbage-root fly, 95 



Caddis-flies, 25, 84, 317 



Caddis- worms, 143, 185 



Calandra, 83 



Galcididce, 265 



Gcdigurgus, 267 



Calotermes, 305 



Campions, frequented by caterpillars, 



236 

 Oampodea, 60 

 Campodeiform larvte, 26 

 " Canker worm" devoured by birds, 245 

 Cantharidine, 167, 332 

 Carabidce, 78, 173, 311 

 Carapkractus, 318 

 Cardo, the, 41 



Carnivorous insects, 173, 330 

 Carpenter, Prof., quoted, 29, 34, 36, 37, 



38, 47, 59, 76, 102, 147, 199, 278, 315 

 Carpocapsa, 87, 197 



Carrion feeding insects, 79, 173, 188, 231 

 Carteria, 334 

 Cassida, 82, 168 

 Caterpillars, aquatic, 317 

 ■ — as prey of ichneumons and tachinids, 



264, 265 



— claspers and prolegs of, 1, 156 



— damage to clothing by, 322 



— defensive devices of, 162, 163 



— development of, 17, 19 



— food of, 110, 190 



— fungi as enemies of, 250 



— protective resemblance and colora- 

 tion of, 132, 134, 139 



— social instinct of, 274 



— stinging hairs of, 168 

 Catocala, 89 



Cave-dwelling insects, 9, 114 

 Cccidomyia, 321 

 C'ecidomyida?, 93 

 Centipedes, 33 



Cephidce, 96 

 Cephus, 97, 320 

 Cerambycida, 81, 150, 194 

 Cerci of Thysanura, 60 

 Ccrcopidw, 72 

 Cercopods, 34 

 Ceroplastes, 333 

 Centra, 143 





