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INDEX 



Chalicodoma, 9, 208, 242-3 



Chat, Black-eared, 10 



Cicada, 5, 16-7; the grasshop- 

 per's victim, 25-6 



Cicadella, 11 



Clairville on the Burying-beetle, 

 62, 81 



Clothes-moth, the, 116, 186 



Cockchafers, 26 



Cole-rape, 290 



Condillac, philosophy of, 43 



Couch-grass, 7 



Cricket, Italian, 22; Common 

 Black, 22 



Cruciferae, the diet of Pieris 

 brassica, 292-3 



Dasypoda, 9 

 Dermestes, 59-61 

 Digger wasps, 11 

 Dragon-fly, 180-00, 194 

 Drilus maroccanus, 274-5 

 Dung-beetles, 10, 81 



Empusa (30-42); larva of, 30; 

 fore-limbs, 31 ; strange head- 

 dress, 32-3; food of, 33-5; 

 how killed, 35-6; metamor- 

 phosis of, 39-40; curious posi- 

 tion assumed in captivity, 36- 

 7; pacific nature of, 41-2 



Epeira, Angular, telegraph wire 

 of, 200-1 



Epeira fasciator, (170-201) ; ap- 

 pearance of, 170; its web, 171- 

 4; nature of the thread, 174-5; 

 her station on the web, 176; 

 fatty unguent of, 177-78; na- 

 ture of the adhesive glue, 179- 

 80; hunting methods, 180-2; 

 treatment of prey, 182-6; bite 

 of, 187-92; the alarm, 194-96; 

 the telegraph wire, 196-201 



Epeira, Silky, 182, 193, 194 



Ephippigera, 11 



Eucera, 9 



Eumenes, 13, (206-20) ; cells of 

 different species, 208-10; nest 

 of E. pomiformis, 211 ; prey 

 found in nest of E. Amedei, 

 212; sex of eggs known to 

 insect, 213; prey in nest of E. 

 pomiformis, 213-14; experi- 

 ments on larvae, 214-15; posi- 

 tion of the egg, 216-19; sus- 

 pension of the larvae, 219; the 

 protective sheath, 220. 



Flesh-fly, Gray, 101 ; viviparous, 

 112; maggots of, 113; a test, 

 114; her attacks on meat- 

 safes, 115; baffled by sand, 

 117-118 



Fly, 59 



Frog, burial of a, 62, 88 



Froghopper, 11 



Geotrupes, 96 



Gledditsch on Burying-beetles, 

 62, 94 



Glow-worm, (268-88) ; diet of 

 snails, 269; anesthetises its 

 prey, 260-76; digestive juice 

 secreted by, 276-77; adhesive 

 climbing appendage of, 278-79 ; 

 luminous apparatus of, 280-1; 

 regulation of light, 282-4; 

 light displayed by females, 

 286-87; eyes of the male, 287; 

 pairing, 287; eggs, 287; lumin- 

 osity of eggs, 287-8; of larvae, 

 288 



Grasshopper, Green, 11; (16- 

 29) ; the note of the, 18-19; 

 stridulating apparatus, 19; 



