INDEX. 53 i 



Ants. Their ftruc^ure and manners, lOi. Wood-ants, their 

 furprifing operations and manners. See termites. Their 

 fociety, 434'. 



Aphis, See puceron. 



Apterous infedls defcribed, 106. 



Arabians conliJer the camel as a gift fent from heaven, 74. 

 Performs joiirnies of fifty leagues in one day, 74, 



Aranea. See fpiders. 



Arteries. The probable inflruments of nutrition and growth, 

 120. 



Artifices. General fources of the artifices of animals, 403. 

 Artifices of cattle, horfes, and monkeys, 404. Of the 

 ftag, ibid. Of the fallow-deer, 405. Of the roebuck, 

 406. Of the hare, 407. Of the fox, 408. Of the glut- 

 ton, 411. Of the Kamtfchatka rats, ibid. Of birds, 4 1 2. 

 Of fifties, 414. Of infeas, 415. 



Afbeftos. Its ftru(Slure makes no approach toward organiza- 

 tion, 24. 



Aureliae. See chryfalids. 



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Beavers. Account of their manners and archite<5lure, 317. 

 Live peaceably in Society with each other, 321. Lay up 

 provifions for winter, 322. 



Bees. The general ftructure of the honey-bee, 104. The 

 mafon-bee fometimes moves in a retrograde diredion, 15L 

 Some of their inftindls enumerated, 1 55. Wood-piercing 

 bee makes a nefi: in old timber, 156. When pinched 

 for room, they augment the depth of their cells, 159. 

 Neft of the mafon-bee, 331. Ichneumon flies deilrudlive 

 to bees, 333. Operations of wood-piercing bees, 334. 

 Of other folitary bees, 338. Operations and oeconomy of 

 the honey-bee, 340. The figure and mode of making 

 their cells, 341. Their cells are defiined to anfwer dif- 

 ferent purpofes, 343. Their divifion of labour, ibid. Their 

 wax a refult of a digeftive procefs, ibid. Eat the farina 

 of flowers, ibid. Require a warm habitation, 346 Mend 

 their hives with propolis, 347. Amafs great quantities oi 

 honey, 347. Occafionally feed one another, 347. Eggs 

 of the female impregnated by the males after they are de- 

 pofited in the cells, 349. Can transform a common fub= 

 je6t into a queen or female, 352. May be multiplied 

 without end, 352. The neuters maflTacre the males, 39 L 



