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HARRIS' 



Insects Injurious to Yegetation. 



BY THE LATE 



THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M.D. 



A New Edition, enlarged and improved, with additions from tlio author'! 

 manuscripts and original notes. 

 Illustrated by engravings drawn from nature under the supervision of 



FJROFJKSSOR ^O^^SSIZ. 



Edited by CHAELES L. FLINT, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



O OnSTTElIISrTS. 

 CHAPTER I. 



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

 ing-Holes Heart and Blood Metamorphoses or Transformations- 

 Classification ; Orders and Groups. 



CHAPTER II. 



COLEOPTERA. Beetles Scarabaeians Ground-Beetles Tree-Beetles Cock- 

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

 toise Beetles Chryoomelians-Cantharides. 



CHAPTER III. 



ORTHOPTER A. Earwigs Cockroaches-- Soothsayers Walking-sticks or 

 Spectres Mole, Field, Climbing, and Wingless Crickets Grasshoppers 

 Katydid Locusts. 



CHAPTER IV. 



HEM I PTER A. Bugs Squash-Bug Clinch-Bug Plant Bugs Harvest Plies 

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



CHAPTER V. 



LEPIDOPTERA. Caterpillars Butterflies Skippers Hawk-Moths-^ge- 

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

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



CHAPTER VI. 



HYMENOPTERA Stingers and PiercersSaw-Flies and Slugs Elm, Fir. 

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

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



CHAPTER VII. 



Dl PTER A. Gnats and Flies Maggots and their Transformations GaU 

 Gnats Hessian, Wheat, and Radish Flies Two-Winged Gall-Flies, an^ 

 Fruit-Flies. 

 APPENDIX.- The Army Worm. 



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