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PAGB 
A group of fixed Sea- Worms Serpula, Terebella, and Spirorbis 148 
Active Sea- worms, Aphrodite or sea-mouse, and Nereis . . 151 
A group of jointed-footed animals, Arthropoda, showing their 
ringed bodies . . . 155 
The Common Prawn . . . . . . . .160 
Sandhopper (Talilrus} and Skeleton Shrimp (Caprellq) . . 163 
Section of a prawn ; and forepart with carapace removed show- 
ing the branchise 164 
Metamorphoses of a Crab . . . . . . .167 
Hermit-crabs in and out of the shell 170 
Floating Barnacles, Lepas, with a bank of fixed Acorn-Barnacles, 
Balanus . . . . . . .174 
Development of the Acorn Barnacle . . .176 
A Scorpion with a Cricket in its claws . , . .179 
The parts of a Spider . . . . . . . .183 
Web of the garden spider . . . , , . .185 
Nest of a trap-door spider .... 192 
A hunting spider with a bag of eggs 195 
The Water- Spider, Argyroneta aquatica . . , . .197 
Aphides or plant-lice, with a grub feeding on them . . . 202 
The Cuckoo-spit insect (Aphrophora spumaria) ' ... . 206 
The Water-Measurer (Gerris) and Water-Boatman (Notonecta) . 208 
The large Green Grasshopper, its changes and its egg-laying . 211 
Spiracle and breathing-tube of an insect . . . . .212 
Cockroaches Young, male, and female, with egg-case . .216 
May-flies (Ephemera) and Caddis-flies (Phryganea] with their grubs 220 
Dragon-fly, with the grub and the insect emerging . . . 223 
Section of an insect's eye . . . . . . .224 
African Termites king, queen, worker, and soldier . . . 226 
Queen Termite cell with queen within 228 
Butterfly's head, caterpillar's head and cushion-foot, a butterfly's 
gg 237 
Caterpillar, chrysalis, and perfect insect, of the Tortoise-shell 
butterfly 239 
Caterpillar and chrysalis of Cabbage Butterfly .... 243 
Caterpillar, cocoon, and moth of the six-spot Burnet . . 246 
Psyche gramitiella, caterpillar and moth 247 
Clothes-Moth with grub and pupa ...... 249 
Cockchafer grub, cocoon, and beetle ..... 252 
The Nut-weevil, maggot and beetle . 254 
