LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
Leaf and slick insects, 218. 
Leaf-miners and their cocoons, 248. 
Leaf-rolling caterpillars, 248. 
Leg of ant bearing combs, 273. 
Leech, food and young of, 145 ; 
nervous system of, 143-145. 
Leeches, land, of Ceylon, 143. 
Lepidoptera, explanation of term, 
240. 
Life, various forms of, 2 ; rapid 
increase of, 4. 
Lima building a nest, 112. 
Limax maximus, 28,000 teeth of, 
121. 
Lime-sponges, figure of, 44. 
Limpet, figure of, 114; habits of, 
117. 
Limulus or king-crab, 177. 
Lingthorn's eye winking, 89. 
Linnaeus, on division "insecta," 155. 
Liver-fluke, 139. 
Lobster, breathing-gills of the, 164. 
Lobsters, number sold in London, 
159; rapid multiplication of, 
172. 
Locust-swarms, 214. 
Long- worm, Nemertes Borlasia, 
137- 
Lowne, Mr., on size of fly's brain, 
265 ; on spider's web, 187. 
Lubbock, Sir J., on ant-communi- 
cation, 274 ; on sorting of ant- 
grubs, 280 ; on age of ants, 281 ; 
on ant-queen working alone, 282 ; 
on ants kept alive by slave, 292 ; 
on ants storing aphis eggs, 292 ; 
on kindness of ants ; 298 ; on 
recognition by ants, 287. 
Lugworm, 1 50. 
Lyonnet on air-tubes of insects, 
213. 
M c CooK on Texas ants, 295, 296. 
Madrepore coral, 74. 
Madreporiform tubercle, 87. 
Maggot of nut, 254; of pea, 255. 
Mandibles of ants, uses of, 275. 
Mantis or snatching insect, 2 i S. 
Mantle of mollusca secreting shull, 
104. 
"Mask" of dragon-fly grub, 222. 
May-bug or cockchafer, 252. 
May-flies do not eat, 220 ; and 
their grubs, 219-221. 
Meadow-ant keeping aphis eggs, 
287. 
Mediterranean, coral of the, 55, 71 ; 
harvesting ants of the, 293 ; large 
octopuses of the, 131 ; sea-urchins 
rf, used for food, 98 ; scorpions 
of the. I So ; trap-door spiders of 
the, 193. 
Medusae, freshwater, 54.. 
Medusa's head, 78. 
Membrane-winged insects, 266. 
Metamorphosis imperfect in cock- 
roach, 235 ; of crab, 169 ; of 
gnat, 264; of insects, 233. 
Mermis, a thread-worm, 140. 
Mexico, cochineal insect of, 207. 
Migrations of ants, 283. 
Miliolite forming its shell, 24. 
Miliolites, birth of young, 25. 
Mites, land and water, 198 ; para- 
sitic, 199. 
Moggridge, Mr. T., on harvesting 
ants, 293 ; on seed bitten when 
sprouting, 294. 
Mollusca, meaning of term, 104 ; 
shell -secreting mantle of, 104; 
naked-gilled, 123 ; possible rela- 
tionship to worms, 134; their rank 
among animals, 1 1 ; vegetable- 
feeding, 114; flesh-feeding, 1 1 8. 
Monads, their origin, 20, 31. 
Money-spinners, 196. 
Mosquito, mouth of, 263. 
Mother-of-pearl, cause of, 106. 
Moth, sphinx-, 244 ; silkworm-, 24 5* 
oak-eggar-, 246 ; Burnet-, 246 ; 
procession-, 247 ; Psyche-, 247 ; 
goat-, 248 ; clothes-, 249. 
Moths and butterflies, comparison of, 
243 ; and their cocoons, 245-248. 
