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ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 



Opening Buds Linden, Horse- 

 chestnut, and Hickory .... 48 

 The Dogwood Flower, from Bud to 



Bloom 49 



Puss Willows 51 



t~- The Toad and his Bagpipe ... 53 



Toy " Locust" 54 



A Japanese Frog Trio 56 



Azalea May-apple 57 



May Woods 58 



Mandrake May-apple 59 



False May-apple 60 



The "Painted-cup" 61 



A. Meadow Glimpse 62 



The Fringed Polygala 63 



Tail-piece 64 



The Ground-nut Ginseng .... 65 



Edge of the Woods 66 



Polyphemus Moth and Cocoons . . 67 



A Bewitched Cocoon 68 



A Spurious Brood frOm a Cocoon . 69 



The Ichneumon at Work .... 70 



The Bombardier Beetle .... 74 



Among the Weeds 75 



A Grassy Wood-road 76 



The Devil's Coach-horse .... 78 

 The Crusader Beetle . . . . .79 



The Asterias Butterfly 80 



Butterfly Hunters 81 



Asterias Caterpillar 83 



Archippus Butterfly and Haunt . . 84 



The Milk-weed Caterpillar ... 85 



Tail-piece 86 



Poison-sumach 89 



Poison-ivy 91 



White Berries of Poison-sumach . 93 



Leaf of the Virginia Creeper ... 95 

 Awakening Mummies . . . . .97 



Dryocampa Moth 98 



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The Gold Beetl(T 99 



Wild Bind-weed 100 



A Country Road 101 



Dog-bane 102 



Dog-bane Beetle 103 



Hazel Packet-roller at Work . . 104 



Hazel Packets 106 



The River-bank 107 



Scouring-grass 109 



The Stone Skeleton of the Scour- 

 ing-grass no 



Scouring-grass Brush in 



Nasturtiums 112 



Bees at Home 113 



Varieties of Pollen .' 115 



A Victim of Milk -weed Pollen . .116 



A Grassy Road 117 



Insects from the Sweep-net . . . 118 



A Pocket Magnifier 120 



Night-flowering Catchfly .... 121 



A Midnight Walk 123 



Horse-tail Plant in the Dew . .124 

 Blue-bottles by Day and Night . .125 

 Dew Diamonds of Jewel- weed . .127 



A Summer Meadow 128 



The Yellow-winged Sparrow . .129 

 Haunt of the Sparrow . . . .130 

 The Meadow Grasshopper . . . 131 

 Spice-bush with Folded Leaves . 133 

 Caterpillar of the Spice-bush . . 134 

 The Protege of the Evening Prim- 

 rose 135 



Evening Primrose 136 



The Evening Primrose Moth . . 137 

 The Fiddling Beetle (Priomts) . .138 

 Musical Beetles (Saperda) . . .140 



Zebra Beetle (Clytus) 141 



A Titillator 142 



Caterpillar of Puss Moth .... 144 



