BOOK I 



duction of bees ; their system of royalty ; swarming 

 sometimes actually a good omen ; kinds of bees ; 

 diseases of bees ; enemies of bees ; beekeeping ; 

 replenishment of stock. (xxiv) Wasps and hornets. 

 What animals reproduce from another species? 

 (xxv-vii) Assyrian silk-worm: chrysalis, larva; 

 inventor of silk fabric ; silk-worm of Cos ; manufac- 

 ture of Coan silk. (xxviii f.) Spiders — which varieties 

 make webs ; material used in webs ; mode of repro- 

 duction. (xxx IT.) Scorpions ; geckoes ; grass- 

 hoppers — their lack of mouth and vent. (xxxiii) 

 Insects' wings. (xxxiv-vi) Beetles ; glowworms ; 

 other kinds of beetle ; locusts ; ants. (xxx^ii-ix) 

 Chrysalises, gad-flies, butterflies ; animals born from 

 wood or in wood ; animals of human refuse ; which 

 is the smallest animal ? summer animals. (xl) Vent- 

 less animal, (xli-iii) Moths, beetles, gnats ; snow- 

 animal ; fire-animal {pyrallis or pyrotos) ; may-flies. 

 (xliv-xcviii) Nature and accomit of all animals ar- 

 ranged according to the parts of the body : species 

 possessing caps ; crested species. (xlv-li) Varieties of 

 horn — which species can move the horns ; heads, head- 

 less species ; hair ; bones of head ; brain ; ears — which 

 species tiave none, which hear without ears or aper- 

 tures ; face, brow, eye-brow. (lii-lvii) Eyes : what 

 animals without eyes, what with only one eye ; 

 varieties of eyes ; method of sight ; species that see 

 bynight; structure of pu.pil ; species that do not close 

 the eyes ; species wliose eyes after being destroyed 

 grow again ; eyelashes — species that lack, species 

 with lashes on only one Ud ; species with no eyehds. 



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