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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL WORK. 
HARRIS 9 
imm injurious 
TO VEGETATION. 
BY THE LATE 
THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, M. D. 
Enlarged and improved, with additions 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 B. 
INTRODUCTION. —insects defined, brain 
AND NERVES. AIR PIPES AND BREATHING 
HOLES. HEART AND BLOOD. METAMORPHOSES 
OR TRANSFORMATIONS. CLASSIFICATION; OR¬ 
DERS AND GROUPS. 
CHAPTER 81. 
COLEOPTERA. -BEETLES. SCARAB2EIANS. GROUND- 
BEETLES. TREE BEETLES. COCKCHAFERS. FLOW¬ 
ER, STAG, SPRING, TIMBER, CAPRICORN, LEAF¬ 
MINING, AND TORTOISE BEETLES. CHRYSOME- 
LIANS. CANTHARIDES. 
CHAPTER BBS. 
ORTHOPTERA. —earwigs, cockroaches, sooth¬ 
sayers. WALKING-STICKS OR SPECTRES. MOLE, 
FIELD, CLIMBING, AND WINGLESS CRICKETS. 
GRASSHOPPERS. KATYDID. LOCUSTS. 
CHAPTER BV. 
HEMIPTERA. — bugs, 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. ALGERIANS OR BOR¬ 
ING CATERPILLARS. MOTHS. CUT-WORMS. 
SPAN-WORMS. LEAF-ROLLERS. FRUIT, BEE,CORN, 
CLOTHES, AND FEATHER-WINGED MOTHS. 
CHAPTER VB. 
HYMENOPTERA. — stingers and piercers. 
SAW-FLIES AND SLUGS. ELM, FIR, AND VINE 
SAW-FLY. ROSE-BUSH AND PEAR-TREE SLUGS. 
HORN-TAILED WOOD WASPS. GALL FLIES. BAR¬ 
LEY INSECT AND JOINT WORM. 
CHAPTER, Vi8. 
DIPTERA. — GNATS AND ELIES. MAGGOTS AND 
THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. GALL-GNATS. HES¬ 
SIAN, WHEAT, AND RADISH FLIES. TWO- 
WINGED GALL-FLIES, AND FRUIT FLIES. 
APPENDIX. —THE ARMY WORM. 
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THE VARIATION 
HI!,US nil MTS 
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AMERICAN E13ITIOJNT 
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that influence these variations, inheritance of peculiar¬ 
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It is one of the most remarkable books of the present 
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Turkey, Guinea Fowl, Canary-bird, Gold-fish ; 
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doubtless much of confusion that at present exists in 
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