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Pyrochroa coccinea (Cardinal Beetle) vol. ii. 86 



Queen Bee, her maternal characteristics 



Rat-tailed Larva and Pupa of Sewer-fly (Eristalis tenax), their tenacity 



of life .. . ii. 164 



Reasonable actions of Insects such as seem directed by reason iii. 341, 346, 347 



Reduvius personatus (Masked Bug-catcher) i. 198, iii. 210 



Resemblances between Plants and Insects ii. 294 



Rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), its beauty and pleasing habits . . . ii. 78 



its transformations ii. 79 



" Rose Leaf-cutter " Bee and her nest iii. 85 



Rose Willow, Gall on the Willow so called ii. 69 



Saw, compound, of the female Saw-fly, and its purpose .... iii. 327 

 Saw-flies (Tentliredinidce), and pseudo-caterpillars of .... iii. 327 



Saw-fly, the Hawthorn, and curious cocoon of iii. 323 



Saturnia pavonia (Emperor Moth) ii. 233 



Scarabceus sacer, or Sacred Beetle, and its symbolic attributes . iii. Ill, 114-116 

 Scarabceus, or Dung Beetle, its habits symbolic of the sordid ... iii. 114 

 Scorpion-fly (Panorpa com/munis) its boldness and beauty ... ii. 277 

 Sculpture, natural, in Beetles (Histeridce), and other insects . . iii. 123, 254 



in insect eggs iii. 252 



Senses, organs of, in insects i. 195-209 



Sensibility, amount of, in insects ii. 169 



Sholl, John, and his American Bee-hives ...... . ii. 211 



Sight of Insects i. 193 



Silk and Silkworms i- 161 



Size, augmentation of, sufficient to make insects formidable : imaginative 



sketch suggested by this idea ii. 252 



wonderful disproportion of, betwixt the Imago of the Lace-wing 



Fly and the puparium which encloses it ii. 282 



Skippers, family of Butterflies (ffesperidce) so called .... ii. 136 



Smell, sense of, in insects * 202, 203, 204 



Smerinihus Tilice (Lime Hawk Moth) ii. 308 



Souls, transmigration of, Rabbinical notions on . 



Sounds emitted by insects, and mechanism of . . . i. 201, ii. 215, 219 



Sphingidai, Sphinxes, or Hawk Moths ii- 303-312 



Spiders, description of species of 



enormous, at Hampton Court 



maternal affection of iii- 94 > 286 



perseverance, neatness, and ingenuity of ... iii- 287, 291, 293 



