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INDEX. 



Moorish ladies frightened by 

 Glow-worms, 56. 



Morea, etymology of, 237. 



Mormons, Locusts among the, 

 112. 



Morocco, Locusts in, 107-130. 



Morus alba, 237. 



Moscow, mulct laid upon, for not 

 catching Fleas, 311. 



Mosquitoes, 19G, 278-286. 



Mourning, Bees put into, 186. 



Mule, Hornets generated from 

 carcass of, 171; Locusts, 101. 



Mummy, insects in head of, 41 ; 

 for sting of Scorpions, 326. 



Musca domestica, 287-301. 



Musidse, 287-301. 



Mushrooms, Honey antidote for 

 poisonous, 208. 



Music, effect of, on persons bit- 

 ten by Tarantulas, 351 ; on 

 Spiders, 334; of Cicadas, 252. 



Musicians, Cicadas symbols of, 

 253. 



Musk-beetles, 72-74. 



Mustard to destroy Locusts, 114. 



Myas dispeopled by Fleas, 307. 



Mycetophila, 286. 



Myiodes, the god of Flies, 292. 



Mylabris cichorii, 63. 

 pustulata, 63. 



Myrmeleonidse, 141. 



Myrmidons, the, 150. 



Narvaez prevented from at- 

 tacking Cortes by Cucuji, 53. 



Necrobia muviiarum, 41. 



Negroes run for their lives from 

 Ants, 157. 



Nerves, Oil of Ear- wigs for 

 strengthening, 76. 



Netherlands, Lady-bird in, 20; 

 Spiders, 340. 



Nets, Mosquitoes kept away with, 

 282. 



New England, Cut-worm in, 

 247; Humble-bees, 213. 



New Granada, Ants in, 160. 



Newt for sting of Scorpions, 326. 



New York, Butterflies in, 229. 



Neuroptera, 182-141. 



Night-fly of Japan, 242. 



Nightingales, pupae of Ants food 



for, 159. 

 Nile, Bee-hive barges on the, 



200. 

 Nits, 320. 

 Noah and the origin of Vermin, 



306; Wood-tic pinned by, 321. 

 Noctiluca terrestris, 57. 

 Noctua graminis, 246. 

 Noctuidse, 246-248. 

 Noise made by flights of Locusts, 



117. 

 North Carolina, Spiders for ague 



in, 359. 

 Notonecta unifasciata, 276. 

 Notonectidx, 275-277. 

 Nun, antipathy of an, to a beetle, 



74 ; frightened by a Hawk- 

 moth, 233. 

 Nut-galls of commerce, 144-145. 

 Nut-shell, Spider in, for ague, 



358. 

 Nuts for sting of Scorpions, 326. 



Oak-balls, superstition connect- 

 ed with, 143. 



(Edipoda corallipes^ 112. 



(Estridse, 302-304. 



(Estrus egui, 302. 

 avis, 302. 



Ohio, Bed-bugs for ague in, 268. 



Oiketicus, 245. 



Oil-beetles, 63. 



Old folks. Crickets supposed to 

 be, 95. 



Ophthalmia, Fly in linen for, 

 295. 



Orange-trees injured by Coccidse, 

 264. 



Orators compared to Cicadas, 252. 



Ornaments, Blister-flies as, 64; 

 Butterflies, 229 ; Buprestidx, 

 50; Cicadas, 251; Cucujus, 54; 

 Diamond-beetle, 68; Fire-flies, 

 57 ; Geotriipes stercorarius, 44 ; 

 Glow-worms, 57; Gold-beetles, 

 23; Lady-bird, 21; Scarabs, 

 38; Spiders, 354. 



Orthoptera, 78-131. 



Oryctes rhinoceros, 46. 



Ovens, Ant-hills made into, 134; 

 Crickets reared in, 96. 



