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Male insects never assist the female *>: 82 

 Difference of the sexes in size and colour . ib. 

 Difference in wandering and stationary habits . 83 

 All female insects have eggs . -i.;/y *^ 

 Popular and theoretical errors refuted . ib* 

 Important discovery by M. Ehrenberg . . ib. 

 Insects' eggs proportionably large . . 84 

 Eggs traced in the body of the mother -: r . ib. 

 Eggs of the cockchafer . . ib. 

 Eggs of the louse . . ,>.-*<>.] . ib. 

 Egg-glue, and its use . . .85 

 Errors of the learned and the unlearned . . ib. 

 Miner, mason, and carpenter insects ro *i:;t ib. 

 Curious instruments of female grasshoppers, saw- 

 flies, and gall-flies . . ., .* . ib. 

 Parasite or cuckoo flies . ^,./ . . 86 



GROWTH OF INSECTS. 



Abuse of the term Development . . 87 



Metamorphoses or Transmutations more objectionable 



than "Transformations" . . w * y ib. 

 EGGS OF INSECTS. 



Form of eggs . ; w . ' . . ib. 



Eggs of the gnat built into a boat . r<i , > ib. 



Markings of eggs . . :t - t gg 



The shell expansible * * A ' V ; . ib. 



Insects do not hatch their eggs * ***^ V ib. 



Proceedings of earwigs and ants > V Ui ' . ib. 



Absurd notions about blight *-u-u a 1 -^ > 



Nobody says blight produces oxen or rooks . ib. 

 INFANCY OF INSECTS. 



No single English word applicable . . 90 



