CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Introduction 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Description of the Structure of the Insect Vivarium and of the Insects 



represented within it in the Frontispiece 8 



CHAPTER III. 



Some Account of the Characteristics which distinguish the Class of 

 Creatures termed Insects, and the Characters by which they are 

 separated from other Allied Forms of Animal Life ... 29 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of the Eggs of Insects, and their Nests 37 



CHAPTER V. 



Of the Caterpillar, and other Kinds of Larvee — Of the Derivation of 

 their Popular and Scientific Names — And of their Structure, Habits, 

 Instincts, Devastations, etc. G2 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Pupa, or Chrysalis — Preparation to enter into the Pupa State — its 



Character, etc 90 



CHAPTER VII. 



Of Insects in their Perfect or " Imago" State, especially those of the 

 Order Lepidoptera — Their Escape from the Chrysalis — The Sudden 

 Growth of their Wings on their issuing from the Shell — The Du- 

 ration of their Existenco in the Perfect State — Aud the Description 

 of the Butterflies engraved in Plate II. 122 



