INDEX. 359 



PAGES. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



OTHER SPECIES OF BEES 284 289 



Osmia, or Mason Bee Melipona South American Bees 

 Tapestry Bee Rose Bee Carpenter Bee Humble 

 Bee. 



THE WASPS, 291 309. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 GENERAL DETAILS 293301 



Fertile Females Workers Nests Hornets' Nests 

 Intelligence Wasp and Spider Irritability. 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 VARIOUS SPECIES OF WASPS 302 309 



Polistes American Wasps Wall or Mason Wasp 

 Sand Wasp Butcher Wasp Bee Eater Ichneu- 

 monidae. 



THE SPIDERS, 311 338. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

 GENERAL DETAILS 313 321 



Dislike of Spiders Spiders' Webs Stretching of Webs 

 Cleanliness Love of Music. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

 VARIOUS SPECIES OF SPIDERS 322338 



Water Spider Hunting Spider Bird-catching Spider 

 Trap-door Spider Its Nest Moggridge's Investi- 

 gations Various Kinds of Nest Australian Trap- 

 door Spiders Transitional Forms of Nest Evolution 

 and its Opponents. 



THE BEETLES, 339 351. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

 BEETLE INTELLECT 341 351 



The Burying Beetle and its Cleverness Power of Com- 

 munication Ateuchus Oncideres Amputator 

 Rhynchophora Cicindela Staphylinus A Beetle's 

 Larder The Ant Lion. 



