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HARRIS' 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation. 



BY THE LATE 



THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M.D. 



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

 manuscripts and original notes. 

 Illustrated by engravings drawn from nature under the supervision ol 



PROFESSOR, 



Edited by CHARLES L. FLINT, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. Insects Denned Brain and Nerves Air-Pipes and Breath- 

 ing-Holes Heart and Blood Metamorphoses or Transformations- 

 Classification ; Orders and Groups. 



CHAPTER II. 



COLEOPTERA. Beetles Scarabseians 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. 



HEMIPTER A. Bugs Sqnash-Bug Clinch-Bug Plant Bugs Harvest Flies 

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



CHAPTER V. 



LEPIDOPTERA.-Catei-pillars Butterflies Skippers Hawk-Moths Alge- 

 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-FliesBarley Insect and Joint Worm. 



CHAPTER VII. 



DIPTERA. Gnats and Flies Ma^ots and their Transformations Gail 

 Gnats Hessian, Wheat, and Radish Flies Two-Winged Gall-Flies, anf 

 Fruit-Flies. 

 APPENDIX. The Army Worm. 



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