VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL WORK. 



HARRIS' 



Insects Injurious to Yegetation. 



BY THE LATE 



THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M.D. 



A New Edition, enlarged and improved, with additions from the author'i ^ 

 manuscripts and original notes. 

 Illustrated by engravings drawn from nature under the supervision of 



FKOKE5SSOR. ^\.G}-ASSIZ. 



Edited by CHARLES L. FLINT, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



O O nSTTE isTTTS. 

 CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION.— 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— Scarabasians— Ground-Beetles-Tree-Beetles-Cock- 

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

 toise Beetles— Chrysomelians — Cantharides. . 



CHAPTER III. 



ORTHOPTERA.— Earwigs — Cockroaches- - Soothsayers — "Walking-sticks or 

 Spectres— Mole, Field, Climbing, and Wingless Crickets—Grasshoppers— 

 Katydid— Locusts. 



CHAPTER IV. 



HEMIPTERA.— Bugs— Squash-Bug— Clinch-Bug— Plant Bugs— Harvest Flies— 

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



CHAPTER V. 



LEPIOOPTERA.— 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 Piercers— Saw-Flies and Slugs— Elm, Fir, 

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

 Wood-Wasps- Gall-Flies— Barley Insect and Joint "Worm. 



CHAPTER VII. 



DIPTERA.- Gnats and Flies— Maggots and their Transformations— Gail 

 Gnats— Hessian, "Wheat, and Radish Flies— Two- Winged Gall-Flies, &n^ 

 Fruit-Flies. 

 APPENDIX.— The Army Worm. 



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