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Darwin, Dr., his anecdote of a Wasp and dead fly .... . vol. ii. 226 



Kirby's inference from above anecdote ...... iii. 346 



Day-flies (Ephemera} ii. 47 



Deadness of perception to the beauty and wonder of creation ... i. 94 



Death of Nature, life in the . . i. 93-117 



Death, power of resistance to, in insects . . . . . . . ii. 161 



Death's-head Moth (Acherontia Atropos) . ii. 306 



caterpillar of iii. 136 



description of ... iii. 131 



proboscis and antennae of iii. 134 



robber of bee-hives iii. 134 



season of its appearance . iii. 133 



shroud of iii. 133 



sound of, and organs which produce it iii. 132 



superstitious terror, an object of . . . . iii. 129, 134 



Deathwatch Beetles (genus Anobium) ....... iii. 138 



Deathwatch Woodlouse (Termes pulsatoria) iii. 139 



De Geer, history of his work i. 20 



Dermestes (a beetle of the Oak) ii. 115 



Dermestidce (beetles living on dry bones) iii. 123 



Destructiveness, mutual, as a law of Creation, thoughts on i. 289, 301 



Devil's Coach-horses, Rove-beetles (StapTiylinidce') so called . . . ii. 106 



Devil's Eing, caterpillar of Tiger Moth, so called ..... ii. 316 

 Diving-bell, model of, in the cell of a Water Spider . . i. 137, 138, 139 



Division of labour among Bees . ii. 207 



Dock-leaves, larvae of flies common on i. 33 



Domestication, some insects eligible for ii. 87 



Dor, or Clock-beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius) . . . . . iii. 116 



Dragon-fly (^Eshna varia) ... i. 298 



emergement from puparium, and how to observe ... ii. 31 



larva of (in vignette to "A Summer's Day Dream") . . . ii. 275 



masked larva of i. 296 



Dyes, insects used as . . i. 165 



Earwig, the female, her practice of sitting on her eggs and brooding her young iii. 92 



Egg-bearing Water Scorpion iii. 93 



Eggs of Insects, their beauty of form, colouring, and carving . . i. 29, iii. 252 



resistance of frost, their capability of i. 97 



Mater noctilucus (tropic Fire-fly) ........ iii. 165 



Emerald Moth ii. 316 



Emperor Butterfly (Apatura Iris) ii. 112, 129 



Emperor Moth (Saturnia Pawwa), and caterpillar of .... ii. 314 



