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HARRIS' 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation. 



BT THE LATE 



THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M.D. 



A New Edition, enlarged and improved, with additions from the author* 

 manuscripts and original notes. 

 Illustrated by engravings drawn from nature under the supervision of 



PROFESSOR 



Edited by CHAELES L. FLINT, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



CHAPTER I. 



I NTRODUCTION. Insects Defined Brain and Nerves Air-Pipes and Breath- 

 ing-HolesHeart and Blood Metamorphoses or Transformations- 

 Classification ; Orders and Groups. 



CHAPTER II. 



COLEOPTERA. Beetles ScaraTweians Ground-Beetles-Tree-Beetles Cock- 

 chafers Flower. Stag, Spring, Timber, Capricorn, Leaf-mining, and Tor- 

 toise Beetles Chryaomelians Cantharides. 



CHAPTER III. 



ORTHOPTERA. Earwigs Cockroaches- - Soothsayers Walking-sticks or 

 Spectres Mole, Field, Climbing, and Wingless'Crickets Grasshoppers 

 Katydid Locusts. 



CHAPTER IV. 



HEMIPTERA. Bugs Squash-Bug Clinch-Bug Plant Bugs Harvest Flies 

 Tree-Hoppers" Vine-Hoppers Plant-Lice American Blight Bark-Lice. 



CHAPTER V. 



LEPIDOPTERA. Caterpillars Butterflies Skippers Hawk-Moths ,Ege- 

 rians or Boring Caterpillars Moths Cut-Worms Span-Worms Leaf- 

 Rollers Fruit, Bee, Corn, Clothes, and Feather-Winged Moths. 



CHAPTER VI. 



HYMENOPTERA. Stingers and Piercers Saw-Flies and Slugs Elm, Fir, 

 and Vine Saw-Fly Rose-Bush and Pear-Tree Slugs Horn-Tailed 

 Wood- Wasps Gall-Flies Barley Insect and Joint Worm. 



CHAPTER VII. 



DlPTERA. Gnats and Flies Maggots and their Transformations Gall- 

 Gnats Hessian, Wheat, and Radish Flies Two-Winged Gail-Flies, ant* 

 Fruit-Flics. 



ftPPENDIX. The Army Worm. 



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