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A BOOK OF INSECTS 



Latins, 296 



Laveran, 323 



Leaf-outting ants, 152, 207, 300 



"Leaf" insects, 62, 63, 130 



Leaf -mining insects, 192, 193 



" Leather-jackets," 93 



Lecanium, 73 



Legs of insects, 1, 53, 54, 55, 104 



Lemoniidcc, 90 



Lepidoptera, 53, 57, 59, 85 



Lepisma, 60 



Leucania, 275 



Libytheidct, 90 



Lice, 13. 23, 33, 67, 72, 296 



Lichen, protective resemblance of insects 



to, 129, 139 

 Lichtenstein, on Phylloxera, 212 

 Light, affecting insects, 116, 121 

 Li minis, 156 

 Lingua, 42 



Linnaeus, classification of insects by, 57 

 Lithinus, 129 



Lizards, as enemy of insects, 244 

 Llaveia, 333 

 Locusts, 62, 64 



— food of, 192 



— as food, 332 



— legs of, 54 



— migrations of, 10, 276 



— " Seventeen year" locust, 22 

 Loeb, on action of light upon moths, 



121 

 Longstaff, Dr. G. B., quoted, 151 

 " Looper " caterpillars, 56, 89, 245 

 Lopaphus, 64 

 Lucanida, 79 

 Lucanus, 259 

 Luciola, SO 

 Lyccenidix, 90 

 Lymantriidce, 88 

 Lytta, 83, 332 



McCook, H. C, 294, 299 



Macroglossa, 222 



Maggot forms of larvae, 26, 275, 313 



Malaria, 324 



Mallophaga, 14, 67, 187 



Mamestra, 89 



Mandible*, 41 



Mankind, relations to insects, 319 



"Manna," 333 



Manson, Sir Patrick, on malaria, 325 



Mantids, praying, 14, 54, 62, 63, 173, 



174, 175 

 Mantispidtt, 75, 76 

 Marey, Profes? or E. J., 48, 52 

 Margarode*. 334 

 Marine insects, 10 

 "Marvel-du-jour " moth, 129, 155 



" Mask " of dragon-flies, 69 



Maxillae of insects, 41 



Mayer, on sounds of gnats, 109 



Mayflies, aquatic nymphs of, 15, 25, 104, 



2*47, 252, 314, 317 

 Mealworm, 82 

 " Mealybugs," 73 

 Mecoptera, 84, 177 

 Megaehile willughbullu, 270 

 Meldola, Professor Raphael, 161 

 Meliponas, 283 

 Mdoida, 82, 167 

 Melophagns, 95 

 MembracidiV, 72 

 Mesonotum, 70, 77 

 Metallic spots on chrysalides, 140 

 Metamorphosis, 19, 21, 22 ' 

 Metatarsus, 55 

 Metcecus, 82, 292 

 Miall and Denny, 6 

 Microgaster, 264 

 Micropterygidce, 86 

 Midges, 93, 187, 246, 315, 321 

 Migration of insects, 10, 11, 275 

 Milk-weeds, fertilisation by insects, 235 

 Millipedes, 32 

 Mimicry, 144, 148, 149 



— aggressive, 186 



— in appearance, 148 



— in habit, 152 



— convergent, 159 



— by females, 156, 158 



— true, 148 



— within protective groups, 159 

 Mimulus, fertilisation by insects, 229 

 Mites, 33 



Moggridge, J. T., 298 



Mole, as enemy of insects, 244 



Mole-cricket, the, 36, 54, 65, 255, 262 



Moller, quoted, 301 



Morgan, Professor Lloyd, 126, 150 



Morphine?, 92 



" Mosaic " theory of insect vision, 106 



Mosquitoes, 9, 43, 44, 187, 324, 326, 



327 

 Moths, aquatic larvae of, 317 



— antler, 253 



— atlas, 90 



— black arches, 88 



— brown- and gold-tailed, 88 



— buff-tip, 146 



— burnet, 86 



— cabbage, 80 



— carpet, 89, 132 



— china-marks, 317 



— cinnabar, 144, 146 



— clearwing, 87, 148 



— clothes, 87, 143 



— codlin, 11, 87, 179, 197 



