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8. Of microscope animals - ib. 



9. Of the flea - 58 

 10. Of the louse 59 



Peculiarities of lice : their amazing increase - 62 

 Many fishes particularly salmon, incident to lice ib. 

 11. Of the death-watch - - ib. 

 Remarkable circumstance of the beating of a death- 

 watch - 61 

 Singular properties of the death-watch, the smallest of 



the beetle-kind - 62 



12. Of the eggs of flies - 63 

 The eggs of insects the occasion of blights - 65 



13. Of gnats 67 

 The uncommon propagation of gnats - ib: 



14. Of the cicadula, or cuckoo-spit - 68 

 The cochineal . - ib. 



15. Of the drone-fly - 69 



16. Of the fire-fly of Jamaica - 70 

 A person may read the smallest print by the light of one 



of these insects jb. 



17. Of the ephemeron, that lives but part of a day ib. 

 Another sort of ephemeron, called the May- fly : hs re- 

 markable properties 7 1 



18. Of butterflies 7g 



19. Of caterpillars . ib. 

 The caterpillar of the willow . 75 

 Peculiar circumstances in caterpillars . ib 



20. Of the transformation of insects 77 

 That of the caterpillaryery remarkable throughout its 



various states " ib. 



21. Of ants 83 

 The extraordinary nicety of their nests ib. 



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