CONTEXTS. 



XI 



Insects (continued). Page 



Their magnificence 92 



Vegetable feeders 92 



Spring Beetles, for what remarkable 92 



The Cucujo, its brilliant light 92 



Glow-Worms, their luminosity 93 



Death-Watches 93 



Habit of calling to their .Mates 93 



Ciavicornes 93 



Carrion Beetles 93 



Sexton Beetles, their remarkable instinct 93 



Bacon Beetles 94 



Palpicornes, principally aquatic 94 



Large Water-Beetles 94 



Their singular table 94 



Lamellicornes, how distinguished 94 



Live on vegetable substances 94 



Scavenger Beetles 95 



Live in tropical climates 95 



Second Section. HETEROMERANS, how 



distinguished 96 



Melasomes, for what remarkable 96 



Meal-grinders 96 



Taxicornes 96 



Stenelytra 96 



Trachelides, how distinguished 96 



Blister Beetles 97 



Thiid Section. COLEOPTEROUS TETRA- 



MERANS .*. 97 



What Beetles included in this section ... 97 



Snout Beetles 98 



Weevils 98 



Diamond Beetles 98 



Wood-eaters, for what purpose appointed 99 



Long-horned Beetle v 59 



Fourth Section. TKIMERANS 99 



Ladybirds destroy Aphides 99 



STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. OKDER OR- 



THOPTERA 100 



In what circumstances they differ from 



Beetles TOO 



Their habits 100 



Earwigs 100 



Cockroaches 101 



Leaf Insects, their singular appearance.. 101 



leaping Orthoptera 102 



House-Cricket 102 



Grasshoppers 102 



Locusts, formidable by their numbers ... 102 

 Mole-Cricket, singular adaptation of its 



strength to the habits assigned to it ... 103 

 LACE-WINGED INSECTS. ORDER NEU- 



ROHTERA, how distinguished 104 



Dragon-Flies, their brilliant appearance, 



their humble guise in an earlier stage . 



of existence 104 



Predatory habit> 105 



May- Flies, "Duns "and " Drakes." 105, 106 



Scorpion- Flies 106 



Ant-Lions 106 



Their singular pitfall 106 



Lace-winged Flies 107 



Their Larvae named "Aphis-Lions" 107 



Their curious disguise 108 



Stone-Flies 108 



White Ants 108 



Congregate in societies 108 



They work concealed from observation... 109 



Sometimes construct towers 109 



Labourers and Neuters, Winged -Males 



and Females 109 



Their curious economy 109 



Insects (continued). 



MEMBRANE-WINGED INSECTS. ORDET: Hv- 



MENOPTERA IIO 



Saw-Flies no 



Cuckoo-Flies in 



Their office in Creation m 



Gall- Flies lay their Eggs in leaves or 



tender shoots '. 112 



Second Section of Hytnenopterons Insects 112 



Ants, their societies 112 



Their dwellings 113 



Wasps, their constructions 113 



Bees, their societies 114 



Their different employments 114 



Their various Cells 115 



Humble-Bees 115 



BEE PARASITES. ORDER STREPSIPTERA... 116 



Stvlops 116 



Stylopized Bees 118 



LEPIDOPTEROCS INSECTS. ORDEX LEPI- 



DOPTERA Il8 



How recognizable 118 



Larvae, Pupa? 119 



Classification of Lepidoptera 119 



Diurnal Lepidoptera 119 



Butterflies 119 



True Butterflies, how distinguished 119 



Chrysalids, whence their name 120 



Crepuscularia 120 



Hawk-Moths 120 



Their Caterpillars and Chrysalids 120 



Death's-head Hawk-Moth 121 



Nocturnal Lepidoptera 121 



Phalense 121 



Eombyces 121 



Silkworm, Us mode of life on the T '. 



berry tree 122 



Tusseh Silkworm 123 



Leaf-rollers 123 



Their various domiciles 124 



^ioth** 124. 



Pack-Moth '. 124 



Feather- Moths 124 



HEMIPTEROI/S INSECTS. ORDER HEMIP- 



TERA, how divided 124 



Geocorysae 125 



HydrOCOrySSe ... . .... 125 



Their use in Nature 125 



Skip-jacks 125 



Water-boatmen 126 



Water-Scorpion 127 



PLANT-SUCKING INSECTS. ORDER HOMOP- 



TERA, structure of 127 



Tree-hoppers 127 



Plant-Lice 127 



Coccidaj 128 



The Cochineal Insect 128 



The Lac Insect 128 



Manna 128 



Chinese Tree Wax 128 



Blight Insects 128 



Lantern Flies 129 



TWO-WINGED INSECTS. ORDER DIPTERA... 129 



Gnats and Mosquitoes 129 



Transformations of Common Gnat 129 



Birth of Gnat an interesting spectacle ... 130 



Crane-Flies 130 



Daddy-long-legs 131 



Whame Flies 131 



Tsetse, its bite poisonous to certain ani- 

 mals 131 



Chameleon Flies 131 



