CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I The Harmas 3 



II The Green Grasshopper 16 



III The Empusa 30 



IV The Capricorn 43 



V The Burying-beetles : the Burial 59 



VI The Burying-beetles: Experiments 76 



VII The Bluebottle 101 



VIII The Pine-procession ary 119 



IX The Spiders 142 



X The Banded Epeira 169 



XI The Eumenes 202 



XII The Osmle 221 



XIII The Glow-Worm 268 



XIV The Cabbage-caterpillar 289 



Index 319 



Note. — Chapters V and VI have been translated by Mr. Bernard 

 Miall; the remainder by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 



