INDEX 



365 



Cleridae, 313 



Click-beetles, 144, 171, 312 



Close-wings, 190, 217 



Clothes moths, 186, 217 



Clouded sulphur butterfly, 178 



Clover-hay worm, 188 



Club-horned beetles, 141, 171 



Coccidae, 129, 135, 311 



Coccinella 9-notata, 162 



Coccinellidae, 68, 161, 171, 313 



Cockroaches, 77, 308 



Cocoon, 48, 60 



Codling moth, 187 



Coleoptera, 136, 304, 311; families of, 



311; mounting of, 348 

 Coleoptera genuina, 137, 171 

 Collecting belt, 331 

 Collecting coat, 330 

 Collecting forceps, 337 

 Collecting insects, methods of, 330 

 Collecting larvae, 339 

 Collembola, 74, 305 ; mounting of, 344 

 Colorado potato-beetle, 153 

 Complete metamorphosis, 57 

 Conopidae, 232, 242, 325 

 Cordulegasteridae, 306 

 Cordyluridae, 325 

 Coreidae, 121, 135, 310 

 Corimelaenidae, 116 

 Coriscus ferus, 114 

 Coriscus subcoleoptratus, 114 

 Corisidae, 135, 309 

 Corn root-aphis, 129 

 Corrodentia, 307 

 Corydalus cornuta, 90 

 Cossidae, 191, 217, 319 

 Costa, 24 



Cotton-boll weevil, 168 

 Cotton square-borer, 179 

 Cotton-stainer, 119 

 Cottony maple scale, 132 

 Coxa, 22 

 Crabs, 7 

 Crambinae, 190 

 Crane-flies, 220, 242, 321 

 Crayfish, 7 



Crickets, 85, 305 ; music of, 86 

 Crop, 30 

 Croton bug, 77 

 Crustacea, 6, 7 

 Cubitus, 24 

 Cuckoo-flies, 320 

 Cucujidae, 143, 171 

 Cucujus clavipes, 143 

 Culicidae, 222, 242, 321 

 Curculionidae, 167, 171, 313 

 Curculios, 167, 171, 313 

 Currant-borer, 193 



Currant span-worm, 199 

 Currant worms, 245 

 Cutworms, 200 

 Cyanide bottle, 335 

 Cydia pomonella, 187 

 Cydnidae, 310 

 Cynipidae, 246, 247, 320 

 Cyrtidae, 323 



Damsel-bug, 114, 135, 310 



Damsel-flies, 98, 306 



Darkling-beetles, 165, 171, 311 



Datana ministra, 194 



Dermestes lardarius, 144 



Dermestidae, 144, 171, 312 



Dermestid-beetles, 171 



Dexidae, 328 



Diaphania hyalinata, 188 



Diaphania nitidalis, 188 



Diastictis ribearia, 199 



Diastrophus nebulosus, 247 



Differential locust, 53, 82 ; habits of, 54 



Digestive system, 29, 290 



Digger-wasps, 260, 274, 320 



Diopsidae, 327 



Diptera, 18, 218, 305, 321 ; characteris- 

 tics of, 218; mounting of, 348; sum- 

 mary of, 242 



Diptera genuina, 219, 242 



Dissecting instruments, 354 



Dissecting trays, 335 



Diving-beetles, 140 



Divisions of body, 276 



Dixa-midges, 226 



Dixidae, 226 



Dobsons, 90, 306 



Dog-day harvest-fly, 122 



Dolichopodidae, 231, 323 



Dragon-flies, 98, 366; mounting of, 345 



Dragon-fly, life history of the, 299 



Drasteria erechtea, 200 



Drosophila, 239 



Drosphilidae, 327 



Dynastes tityus, 152 



Dysdercus suturellus, no 



Dytiscidae, 140, 171, 312 



Earwigs, 87, 307 



Echinoderms, 5 



Ecology, 2 



Egg, 45, 50 ; laying, 56, 63 ; mass, 58 



Elateridae, 144, 171, 312 



Elbow pins, 348 



Elm leaf-beetle, 1 54 



Elytra, 24 



Embryology, 11 



Emesidae, 113, 135, 309 



Empididae, 323 



