ILLUSTRATIONS. 



'1 Long-legged house-spider (Pholcus Phalangioides) ... 6 



2 Musk-beetle (Cerambyx odoratus) . . . . . . 8 



3 Catch-weed beetle (Timarcha tencbricosd) . . ib. 

 1 4 Stag-beetle (Lucanus Cervus} on the wing .... 10 



5 Clouded yellow butterfly (Colias Edusa), male .... 13 



6 Pale clouded butterfly (Colias Hyale\ female . . . . ib. 



7 Red underwing (Catocala nuptaj 19 



8 Upper and under sides of the ringlet butterfly (Hipparchia 



Hyperanthus) 25 



9 Harvest-bug (Leptus autumnalis), greatly magnified ... 27 



10 Marbled butterfly (Hipparchia Galathea) and caterpillar . . 28 



11 Rose-laurel (Rhododendron ponticum) 33 



12 Yellow azalea (Azalea pontica) 34 



13 J,eistus fulvibarbus, with the tongue magnified .... 43 



14 Painted lady butterfly (Cynthia Cardui) : and Alpine blue-bottle 



(Centaurea montana) ........ 45 



15 Burying-beetles (Necrophorus sepultor), and dead frog . . 46 



16 Snapdragon (Antirrhinum TOO/MS), and bees entering the flower . 49 



17 Humming-bird-moth (Macroglossa stellatarwri), and trumpet 



honey-suckle (Caprifolium sempervirens) .... 50 



18 Bombardier (Brachinus crepitans) .... 54 



19 Calosoma inquisitor ......... ib. 



20 Green dragon-fly (JEshna varia) ...... 67 



21 Rove-beetle (Goerius olens} on the wing ..... 68 



22 Lackey-moth, in all its stages . 74 



23 Fox-moth (Lasiocampa rwW), and caterpillar .... 76 



24 Green field-cricket (Acrida viridissima), with its nest and eggs . 77 



25 Drum of the grasshopper 79 



26 Under-side of the Cicada 83 



27 Drum of the Cicada ib. 



28 Wasp-fly (Chrysotoxum fasciolatum) 91 



29 Father long-legs (Pedicia rivosa'), together'with the poisers and 



the winglets . . 



30 Death's-head hawk-moth (Acherontia Atropos~) ... 96 



31 Heads of the death's-head hawk-moth, showing experiments 



respecting sound ...* 97 



31 Anolnum tesselatum, a death-watch beetle, magnified . . 101 



32 Anobium striatum, a death-watch beetle, magnified , , . ib. 



33 Anobium pertinax ; a death-watch beetle, magnified . . . ib. 



34 Acanthocinus cedilis . . .110 



35 Adela De Geerella, male and female ib. 



30 Kar of the crab. . .117 



