CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTEODUCTION. 



Insects defiued. — Beain and Nerves. — Atr-pipes and Bkeath- 

 iNG-HOLEs. — Heart and Blood. — Insects are produced from 

 Eggs. — Metamorphoses, or Transformations. — Examples of 

 Complete Transformation. — Partial Transformation. — Lar- 

 va, or Infant State. — Pupa, or Intermediate State. — Adult, 

 ok Winged State. — Head, Eyes, Antennae, and Mouth. — Tho- 

 rax OR Chest, Wings, and Legs. — Abdomen ok Hind-body, 

 Piercer, and Sting — Number ok Insects comparf,d with Plants. 

 — Classification; Orders; Coleoptera ; Orthoptera ; Hemipte- 

 ra; Neuroptera; Lepidoptera; Hymenoptera; Dipteka; Other 

 Orders and Groups. — Remarks on Scientific Names. . 1-22 



CHAPTER II. 



COLEOPTEKA. 



Beetles. — Scakab^eians. — Ground-Beetles. — Ti;ee-Beetles. — 

 Cockchafers or May-Beetles. — Flower-Beetles. — Stag-Bee- 

 tles. — Bupkestians, or Saw-horned Borers. — Spring-Beetles. 

 Timber-Beetles. — Weevils. — Cylindrical Bakk-Beetles. — 

 Capricorn".'Beetles, or Long-horned Borers. — Leaf-Beetles. — 

 Criocerians. — Leaf-mining Beetles. — Toi:toise-Beetles. — 

 Chryso:melians. — Canthakides. . . . . 23 



CHAPTER. III. 



GET HOP TEE A. 



Earwigs. — Cockroaches. — Mantes, or SooTHSAYEijis. — Walking- 

 Leaves. — Walking-Sticks, or Spectres. — Mole-Cricket. — 

 Field Crickets. — Climbing Cricket. — Wingless Cricket. — 

 Grasshoppers. — Katy-did. — Locusts. . . . 141-191 



