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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL WORK. 
HARRIS' 
TO VEGETATION. 
BY THE LATE 
TIIADDIXS WILLIAM HARRIS, M. D. 
Enlarged ami improved, with addition* from 
the author's manuscripts aud original notes. 
Illustrated by engravings drawn from nature un- 
der the supervision of 
PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. 
Edited by 
CHARLES L. FLINT, 
Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of 
Agriculture. 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION. —insects defined, brain 
AND NERVES. AIR PIPES AND BREATHING 
HOLES. UEAUT AND BLOOD. METAMORPHOSES 
OR TRANSFORMATIONS. CLASSIFICATION ; OR- 
DERS AND GROUPS. 
CHAPTER II. 
COLEOPTERA. -beetles. scarab.eians. ground- 
beetles. TREE BEETLES. COCKCHAFERS. FLOW- 
ER, stag, spring, Timber, Capricorn, leaf- 
mining, AND TORTOISE BEETLES. CHKTSOME- 
LIANS. CANTHARIDES. 
CHAPTER III. 
ORTHOPTERA.— earwigs, cockroaches, sooth- 
sayers. WALKING-STICKS OR SPECTRES. MOLE, 
FIELD, CLIMBING, AND WINGLESS CRICKETS. 
GRASSHOPPERS. KATYDID. LOCUSTS. 
CHAPTER IV. 
HEMIPTERA. — bigs, squash bug. clinch- 
BUG. PLANT BUGS. HARVEST FLIES. TREE- 
HOPPERS. VINE HOPPERS. PLANT-LICE. AMERI- 
CAN BLIGHT. BARK-LICE. 
CHAPTER V. 
LEPIDOPTERA. — caterpillars, butterflies. 
SKIPPERS. HAWK-MOTHS. -SGERIANS OR BOR- 
ING CATERPILLARS. moths. cut-worms. 
SPAN-WORMS. LEAF-ROLLERS. FRUIT, BEE, CORN, 
CLOTHES, AND FEATHER WINGED MOTHS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
HYMENOPTERA. — stingers and piercers. 
SAW-FLIES AND SLUGS. ELM, FIR, AND VINE 
SAW FLY'. ROSE-BUSn AND PEAR-TREE SLUGS. 
HORN-TAILED WOOD WASPS. GALL FLIES. BAR- 
LEY INSECT AND JOINT WORM. 
CHAPTER VII. 
DIPTERA. — GNATS AND FLIES. MAGGOTS AND 
THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. GALL-GNATS. HES- 
SIAN, WHEAT, AND RADISH FLIES. TWO- 
WINGED GALL-FLIES, AND FRUIT FLIEfS. 
APPENDIX.— THE ARMY WORM. 
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