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INDEX 



HEAD-LOUSE, 326 ; eggs, 334 ; 



cundity, 335 ; remedies, 338 

 Homalomyia canicularift, 174 

 Hooke's "Micrographia," 315, 



Micrographia'," 315, 319, 

 3 2 5 



Hornet, 82 

 Horn-tail, 81 

 House ant, 55, 57 

 House fly, 172 ; life history, 198 

 Hylotrupes bajuhis, 49 



INSECTS, characteristics of, 3 

 Imperfect wings in Hemiptera, 286 



JIGGER, 270 



LEPISMA SACGHARINA, 314 

 Luciiia Ccesar, 206 

 Lyctocoris campestris, 303 



MALLOPIJAGA, 341 

 Meal motlh, 108 



,, worms, 42 

 Mezium affine, 20 

 Midges, 224, 246 

 Mites on flies, 211 

 Monomorium Pharaonis, 55, 57 

 Mosquitoes, 225; as pests, 238; bite 



of, 242 ; thread-worm in, 236 

 Mummies, beetles in, 21, 26 

 Musca corvina, 217 



,, domestica, 172 

 Mycetcea hirta, 30 



NEMOCERA, 222 



Nervous system of fly, 209 ; of cock- 

 roach, 144 

 Niptus hololeucus, 18 



ODTNERUS (genus), 64 

 (Ecogenia Kindermanniella, 106 

 CEcophora pseudo-spretella, 104 



PARASITES on Anobium, n 

 Pediculus capitis, 326 



,, vestimenti, 326 

 Performing fleas, 268 

 Periplaneta Americana, 145 



,, orientalist, 117 

 Phthirius inguinalis, 340 

 Plateau's experiments on strength of 



insects, 266 

 Plumed gnats, 246 

 Pollenia rudis, 209 

 Portchinski's observations on flies, 215 

 Pristonychus terricola, 51 

 Psychodidce, 247 

 Ptilinus pectimcornis, 12 



Ptinusfur, 15 

 Pulex irritans, 249 

 Puparium of fly, 201 

 Pyralis costalis, no 

 ,, farinalis, 108 



RED uvius PERSON- AT us, 301 

 Hhyphus fenestralis, 245 



SAND-FLIES, 246 



Sarcophaga carnaria, 197, 198, 214 

 Sarcopsylla penetrans, 270 

 Sericomyia borealis singing, 180 

 Silver-fish insect, 314; damage done 



by, 320 ; structure, 316 ; systematic 



position, 318 

 Simulium (genus), 246 

 Sirexgigas, 81, 83 



,, juvencus, 87 

 Smaller house fly, 154 

 Small tabby moth, 115 

 Social insects, 56 

 Social wasps, life history, 66 

 Solitary wasps, 63 

 Sounds produced by insects, 153 

 Sphodrus leitcophthalmus, 51 

 Stomoxys calcitrans, 175 ; proboscis, 



T 95 

 Strength of insects, 266 



TABBY MOTH, m 

 Tenebrio molitor, 40 



obscurus, 40 

 Thread-worm in mosquito, 236 

 Tinea (genus), 91 

 Tinea biselliella, 98 



,, pellionella, 92 



,, rusticella, 100 



,, tapetzella, 99 

 Tribolium confusum, 37 



,, ferrugineum, 37 

 Turkey gnats, 246 



VELIA CURRENS, 286 



Vespa, species distinguished, 77 



WASP, head of, 73 



Wasps, characteristics of, 62 ; species 



distinguished, 77 

 Water cricket, 286 

 Window gnat, 245 

 ,, moth, 103 

 Wings of Hemiptera, 284 

 Winter midges, 247 

 Worm-eaten wood, 4 



XESTOBIUM TESSELLATUM, 7 



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