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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, 
355 ; 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, 1 06. 
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 spider, 1 88; of 
dragon-fly grub, 223 ; of gnat 
grub, 264; of sea-mouse, 15*. 
Breathing -chamber of land snails, 
120 ; -holes of a caterpillar, 238. 
British Museum, shells in the, 1 06; 
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, 
237 ; 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. 
