INDEX. 577 



Order Lepidoptera continued. PAGE 



Hawk-moths ... .... 160 



Their caterpillars and chrysalids .... 



Death's-head hawk-moth ...... 161 



Nocturnal lepidoptera 162 



Phalense 162 



Bombyces ........ 162 



Silkworm, its mode of life on the mulberry-tree . .162 



Tusseh silkworm 164 



Leaf-rollers 164 



Their various domiciles . . . . . .165 



Moths 165 



Pack-moth 166 



Feather-moths 166 



Order Hemiptera, how divided 166 



Geocorysse . . . . . . . . 167 



Hydrocorysae . . . . . . . .167 



Their use in nature 168 



Skip-jacks 168 



Water-boatmen . 168 



Water-scorpion 169 



Order Homoptera, structure of . 169 



Tree-hoppers . .170 



Plant-lice . * 170 



Coccidse ......... 171 



The cochineal insect . . . . . . ,171 



The lac insect 171 



Manna ......... 171 



Chinese tree-wax 171 



Blight insects 172 



Lantern-flies ........ 172 



Order Diptera 



Gnats and mosquitoes .... 



Transformations of common gnat 173 



Birth of gnat, an interesting spectacle .... 174 



Crane-flies 174 



Daddy long-legs . . . . . .175 



Whame-flies 175 



Tsetse, its bite poisonous to certain animals . . . 176 



Chameleon-flies 176 



Phenomena attending their metamorphosis . . .176 



Wasp-flies 177 



Rat-tailed larvae 177 



Gad-flies ... 178 



. 178 



. 179 



. 179 



. 180 



. 180 



. 180 



. 180 



. 181 



. 181 



Pediculus ......... 181 



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Flesh-flies 



Important agents in the police of nature 



Domestic-fly 



Spider-flies 



Forest-fly 

 Order Thysanoura 



Lepisma 



Springtails 

 Order Parasitse . 



