NA TURAL HI8TOR Y. 



PAGE 



Flight of the White Admiral Lofty Flight of the Purple Emperor Long-snouted Butterflies A Large Group of 

 Small and Elegant Butterflies almost peculiar to South America Copper Butterflies Small Blues Hairstreaks 

 Long Tails of some of the Allied Eastern Species The White and Yellow Butterflies Some of this Group 

 Brightly Coloured Mimicking South American Butterflies Small and Large Yellow Butterflies of the Tropics 

 Garden Whites White Indian Butterflies with Red Spots on the Under Side Indian Butterflies with the Front 

 of the Wing Eidged like a Saw The Brimstone and Clouded Yellow Butterflies Orange-tips Swallow-tailed 

 Butterflies The Apollo Butterflies Magnificent Tailed Butterflies from the Himalayas The Great Bird-winged 

 Butterflies of the East A Croesus among Butterflies South American Butterflies with Iridescent Spots 

 Mimicking Butterflies again Gold-dusted Butterflies Great Blue Butterflies of the Eastern Islands The True 

 Swallow-tailed Butterflies Extraordinary Difference between the Sexes of an African Butterfly Very Long 

 Tails of a Small Indian Group The Skippers Their Resemblance to the Moths Tailed Skippers of South 

 America The Fire-tailed Skippers The Grizzled Skipper The Pearl Skipper .32 



CHAPTEK XI. 



The Pages The Castniidce Moths with Clubbed Antennas Humming Bird Hawk Moth Bee Clear-wings Lovers 

 of the Vine Eyed Hawk Moth Death's Head Hawk Moth -Scented Hawk Moths Hornet Clear-wing 

 Currant Clear-wing The Green Foresters The Burnets Day-flying Moths of the East Indies The Footmen 

 The Tigers The Gold-tail Moth The Gipsy Moth Case-bearing Moths The Puss Moth The Prominents 

 The Lobster Moth The Processionary Caterpillars The Silkworm The Atlas Moth The Ailanthus Silkworm 

 the Tusseh Silkworm Long-tailed Moths -The Emperor Moth The Lappet Moth The Oak Eggar The Lackey 

 Moth The Wood Leopard Moth The Goat Moth The Swifts The Night Moths The Wainscots The Dark 

 Arches-The Cabbage Moth The Cut-worms The Yellow Underwings The Chestnuts The Angle ShadesThe 

 Sharks Beautiful Yellow Underwing The Gamma Moth, or Silver Y The Burnished Brass Moth The Old 

 Lady The Red Underwings The Orange Moths of Australia The Great Owl Moth The Snout The Loopers- 

 The Swallow-tail Moth The Brimstone Moth The Thorns The Emeralds The Waves Heath Moths The 

 Soldier Moths The Magpie Moth Winter Moths The Pugs The Carpets - Erateina The Pearls The Meal 

 Moth The Crimson and Gold The China Marks The Small Magpie The Knot -horns Their Webs The Grass 

 Moths- The Bell Moths The Green Oak Moth Pests of the Orchard Jumping Seeds Clothes' Moths Long- 

 horns- The Smallest Moth known The Plume Moths The Twenty-plume Moth Fossil Butterflies and Moths . 



CHAPTER XII. 



D I P T E H A A P H A N I P T E R A. 



DIPTERA Characters The Proboscis Structure Metamorphosis Internal Anatomy Habits Parasitism Distri- 

 bution Classification TRIBE NEMOCERA THE CULICIDJE, OR GNATS Metamorphosis Habits Blood- 

 thirstiness The Mosquito Other Gnats THE CHIRONOMID^E THE TIPULID^E THE CRANE FLIES, or Daddy 

 Long-legs The Giant Crane Fly The Genus Ctcnophora Midges Other Genera THE MYCETOPHIUIME Fungus 

 Midges The Army Worm THE CECIDOMYIDJE, or Gall Midges The Hessian Fly Its Destructiveness The 

 Wheat Midge Another Pest The Galls Dr. N. Wagner's Observations on the Genus Miaxtor THE PSYCHO- 

 DIIME THE BIBIONID.E "Garden Flies" "Sand Flies "The Columbalsch Fly TRIBE NOTACANTHA THE 

 STRATIOMYID.E TRIBE TANYSTOMA THE TABANIRE, or Breeze Flies, or Gad Flies Habits The Ox Breeze 

 Fly The Golden-eyed Breeze Fly The CLKGG A " Blood-drinker " THE ASILID^E THE THEIIEVID.E THE 

 EMPID/E THE ACROCEHID.E THE BOMBYLIID^E - -THE LEPTID.E THE DOLICHOI'OIUD.K THE Pi ATYi'Kzm.n -THE 

 SCENOPINID.E TRIBE ATHERICERA THE SYRPHID/E Parasitism The Volucellce The Genus EristalisTHE 

 MusciD.fi Characters The Tachinarke The Muscaricc The Common House Fly The Bluebottle The Flesh 

 Fly The Greenbottle Flies The Tsetse Fly The A calyptera Various Genera The PhoridesThe CEstride* 

 The (Estrus lovisThe Cephalomi/icEGasirusT'RIVE PUPIPARA THE HIPPOBOSCID.E THE NYCTEUTBIIIXE 

 THE BRAULID.E APHANIPTERA, THE FLEAS Characters -Classification Transformations -Habits 

 Various Species Their Muscular Energy Trained Fleas The Jigger Its Pernicious Parasitism . . . .70 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE RHYNCHOTA, OR BEAKED INSECTS. 



THE RHYNCHOTA The Rostrum General Form Internal Anatomy Imperfect Metamorphosis Distribution- 

 Fossil Species -Classification HETEROPTERA, OR BUGS Characters LAND BUGS-ScuTATA, OR SHIELD 

 J'.rns -CoiiEin.-E L\-GJEIT>M PYRRHOCORID>E PHYTOCORID/E, OR PLANT BUGS ANTHOCORID/E MEMBRANACEA 

 The Bed Bug REDUVIID.E-GERRID^E HYDROCORES, OR WATER BUGS GALGULID.E NEPID.E, OR 

 WATKR SCORPIONS NOTONECTIU.E HOMOPTERA CiCADiixt Characters Distribution -The Organs of Stri- 

 dulation FULGORIIXE The Great Lantern Fly MEMBRACID.E CICADELLINA Cuckoo Spits - -Froghoppers 



APHIDID.E Plant Lice Hop Fly Reproduction COCCIU.-E Cochineal -PEDICULINA . . . 101 



