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Spiders, resemblance of, to destructive animals . . . . vol. iii. 276 



resemblances of, to Men, Beasts of rapine, Birds, Fishes, and 



Keptiles ......... . . . . . iii. 277-286 



sight of iii. 292 



superstitions concerning iii. 288 



weather, interpretation of, by their movements . . . . . iii. 291 



Spring, a walk in i. 285 



Spring, its banquet to the senses ........ i. 215 



Springs, internal, of insect aud other animal activities their compound 



nature . . . . iii. 335 



Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), description of, and habits . . . . ii. 83 



Sting of the Bee, its structure iii. 330 



or Piercer, of the Gnat . iii. 331 



" Stone Masons," Moth caterpillars so called ii. 230 



Superstition in decline iii. 127, 141 



ascendancy of, in the days of Keaumur iii. 135 



Swallow-tail Butterfly ii. 120 



Swallow-tail Moth ( Ourapterix sambucaria), resemblance of its wings to 



flower-petals ii. 288, 319 



Swammcrdam, his apostrophe on the works of God . i. 18 



his sympathetic description of May-fly miseries .... ii. 50 



Swimming of Aquatic Beetles iii. 187 



Symbolic teachings from the Book of Nature . . . ii. 32, 57, 229, 250, 301 

 Syrphus grubs, their usefulness in gardens . . . . i. 170, 181 



Taste in Insects . ..... . i. 206-209 



Tegmina, or Wing-cases, of Locustidce . iii. 18 



Tell-tales, Gnats so called . . . i. 58 



Tenthredinidae, (Saw-flies), family of iii. 328 



Tent-makers, moth caterpillars so called, and their structures ... ii. 234 

 Tephrites Cardui (Thistle Gall-fly) . . . . . . . . ii. 69 



Tettix and Cicada (Greek and Latin names for the Tree-hopper) . ii. 215, iii. 2 



Tetragnatha extensa (Long-bodied Spider) i. 132 



Thecla (the genus), Hairstreak Butterflies ii. 133 



Thistle, Insects which frequent . i. 315, 316 



Tiger Beetle (Oicindela) iii. 179, 268 



fierce and singular grub of iii. 246 



Tiger Moth (Arctia Caja), and caterpillar of ii. 315 



Tintce, family of moths so called i. 274, 278 



Tinea Ilordei (Grain Moth) i. 275 



pellionella (Clothes Moth) . i. 275 



Tineidce, tent-making and other moth caterpillars of the family . ii. 100, 235 



