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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
sail, 131; male has no shell, 
132. 
Argyroneta aquatica, 196. 
Aristotle on mouth of sea-urchin, 
97- 
Arthropoda or jointed-footed ani- 
mals, 155. 
Ascidians, 103 note, 117 note. 
Atlantic telegraph, mud from the, 
28. 
Atta structor and Atta barbara, 293. 
BASKET-FISH, 92. 
"Balancers" of the daddy-long- 
legs, 261. 
Balanus, structure of the, 176. 
Barnacles, floating (Lepas), 174. 
Bate, Mr. Spence, on acorn bar- 
nacle, 1 76 ; on hearing of prawn, 
161. 
Beads taken by mistake by ants, 
293- 
Beetles, adaptation of parts to work, 
261 ; undergo metamorphosis, 
251; muscular power of, 260; 
parasitic, 260 ; rove, 251 ; cock- 
chafer, 252 ; plant-eating, 252, 
255 ; carnivorous, 256 ; water, 
257; cocktail, 256; bombardier, 
255 ; whirligig, 257 ; blind, 
260; bee, 260; skipjack, 261 ; 
sexton, 259; goliath, 251; tiger, 
255 ; carnivorous, 257. 
Bees, organisation of, 268. 
Bell-flower or Vorticella, 21, 31. 
Belt, Mr., on leaf-cutting and for- 
aging ants, 297 ; on ants helping 
each other, 298. 
Bivalve shells, formation of, 106. 
Birds, rate of increase of, 4. 
Black-ant nest, attack on, 289. 
Bladder- worm, 139. 
Bluebottle's early life, 263. 
Botflies, their manner of wounding, 
263. 
Bowerbank, Dr., on sponge spic- 
ules, 45, 49. 
Brachiopoda, 103 note. 
Brain-coral, 75. 
Breathing of spicier, 188 ; of 
dragon-fly grub, 223 ; of gnat 
grub, 264; of sea-mouse, 151. 
Breathing - chamber of land snails, 
I2O; -holes of a caterpillar, 238. 
British Museum, shells in the, 106; 
forms of star-fish in, 101. 
Brittle star-fish, infancy of a, 79 ; 
full-grown, 84-91 ; its move- 
ments and habits, 92. 
Brobdingnag and Gulliver, 269. 
Bugs, air and water, 207. 
Bunodes gemmacea, 68. 
Burnet-moth with caterpillar and 
cocoon, 246. 
Butler, Mr. A., on spider's web, 
187. 
Butterfly, life from a caterpillar, 
236-240 ; head and egg of a, 
23 7 ; formation of perfect, 
240. 
Butterflies and moths, comparison 
of, 243. 
CABBAGE-BUG, Pentatoma, 206. 
Cabbage butterfly's mode of binding 
the chrysalis, 243. 
Caddis-fly and grub, 220-222. 
Calamary, a huge arm of, 131. 
Calamaries, horny pen and hooked 
suckers of, 130. 
Campanulina, 59* 
Cardium, in. 
Carinaria atlantica, 125. 
Carter, Mr., cited, 39. 
Caryophyllium Smithii, 75. 
Caterpillar, head and foot of, 237 ; 
life of a, 236-239 ; leaf-rolling, 
247 ; goat-moth, 248 ; Psyche in 
case, 247 ; Burnet-moth, 246. 
Cases of the caddis-grub, 222. 
Cave anemone, 68. 
Centipede, 156. 
Cephalopoda, or head-footed ani- 
mals, 128. 
