annoyance of in what respects beneficial, i. 251:
beneficial in removing nuisances; as dung, 254:
carrion, 256:
in keeping other insects, &c. within due limits, 261:
as affording food to quadrupeds, 280:
to reptiles, and fishes, 282:
to birds, 287:
to man, 301:
as articles used in materia medica, 313:
used for ornament, 317:
as affording materials for dyeing, ink, &c., 317:
as producing wax, 326:
honey, 329:
silk, 332:
vitality of, ii. 446:
cold and frost, effects upon, ii. 437, 446:
definition of, iii. 28:
breeding them, directions for, iv. 552:
differ from _Crustacea_ and _Arachnida_, iii. 9:
education, effects of upon, ii. 87:
errors (vulgar) concerning, i. 33:
_fossil_, iv. 570:
_food_ of--
vegetable, i. 382;
animal, 384;
both animal and vegetable, 386;
some univorous, 387;
others omnivorous, 388;
times of feeding, 391;
organs by which they feed, 392; iii. 416:
stratagems employed in procuring food--
by spiders, i. 403;
by the ant-lion, 425;
how best to _kill_ them when captured, iv. 536, 540:
imitations they exhibit, i. 7; ii. 216:
injuries they occasion to man, i. 80:
other animals, 145;
grain, 167;
pulse, 175;
herbage, 178;
roots, 185;
kitchen-garden, 189;
flower garden, 194;
fruit, 195;
plantations, 207;
to our food, 227;
garments, 232;
timber, 235;
books and cabinets, 239:
instincts, exquisiteness of, ii. 467;
number of, 492;
development of, 503:
instruction afforded by insects, i. 16:
integuments of, iii. 393:
intellect of, ii. 507; iv. 21, 32:
inventions they have anticipated, i. 14:
means by which they defend themselves--
passive, ii. 216;
active, 229:
luminous insects, ii. 403:
noxious, how to be destroyed, i. 28:
number, (supposed) of insects existing, iv. 489:
compared with that of plants, 489:
of carnivorous and phytiphagous insects, 491:
oviparous and ovo-viviparous insects, iii. 65:
representative insects, iv. 508;
rank of, 373:
strength of, iv. 195:
setting and preparing for cabinet, 543:
table of relative size of, iii. 33:
transformations of, i, 63:
memory of, ii. 519.
_Insects_, proper and improper, ii. 303.
_Instinct_, change of in a spider, iv. 205, note.
_Itch_, cause of, i. 90.
_Itching_ produced by hairs of caterpillars, i. 130.
_Jaws_ of insects, i. 393:
upper, iii. 313:
under, 315.
_Jelly_, secreted by ditto, iv. 139.
_Journal_, entomological, how to make, iv. 569.
_Jurine_, system of, iii. 620; iv. 482.
_Kingdoms_ (animal and vegetable), analogies between, iv. 370:
numerical arrangement of, 410.
_Knowledge_, two avenues to, i. 24.
_Lac_, an insect product, i. 324.
_Lady-bird_ or _Lady-cow_, i. 265; ii. 9, 227, 247.
_Lamarck_, system of animals, iii. 15:
of insects, iv. 474.
_Lantern-fly_, noise of, ii. 397:
whether luminous, 413.
_Larva_ of flies, i. 230:
stinging, iii. 179:
rat-tailed, i. 256:
its respiratory apparatus, iv. 52.
_Larvæ_, substance of, iii. 110:
head, 112:
eyes, 116:
antennæ, 118:
mouth, 119:
trunk and abdomen, 130:
prolegs, 134:
dorsal of gall-fly, ii. 278:
appendages, iii. 144:
figure, 155:
kinds of, 159:
primary forms of, 161:
clothing of, 173:
colour, 184:
food of, 188:
moulting, 189:
growth of, 199:
how they prepare to assume the pupa, 203:
motions of apodous, ii. 269:
of pedate, ii. 283.
_Latreille_, system of, iv. 465.
_Law_ (original) of the Creator, regulates the developments of
insects, iii. 56.
_Leach_, Dr., system of, iv. 475.
_Legs_ of insects, parts of, ii. 283. iii. 660:
number of, 652; ii. 307:
acquisition of, by myriapods, iii. 23, 107, 159:
antennæ supply the place of, ii. 308:
relative location of, iii. 656:
motatory, ii. 302.
_Lenses_, number of in compound eyes, iii. 494.
_Lepidoptera_, parasites of, iv. 228:
colours, iii. 648:
scales, 644.
_Linné_, system of animals, iii. 5:
of insects, iv. 447.
_Lint_ collected by an ant, i. 315.
_Lister_, Dr. Martin, iv. 444.
_Liver_ of _Arachnida_, iv. 100, 122.
_Locusts_, ravages of, i. 215:
followed by famine and pestilence, 217:
benefits produced by, 252:
used as food, 303:
leap of, ii. 310:
female killed by the male, iii. 347.
_Louse_, bat, ii. 307:
bird, i. 163: iii. 97:
common, i. 83:
peacock, i. 163:
sheep, i. 156:
sugar, ii. 316:
wood, 230.
----, leaf. See _Plant-louse_.
_Luminosity_ of insects, causes of, ii. 418; iv. 149.
_Lyonet_, anatomy of the cossus, iv. 455.
_MacLeay_, W. S., system of animals, iii. 12:
of Annulosa, iv. 477:
of Mandibulata, 479:
of Petalocera, 481:
columns of analogous Haustellata and Mandibulata, 421.
_Mænomenon_ of Pliny, what, ii. 178.
_Maggot_ of a fly, destructive to the sick, i. 138:
jumping of cheese-fly, i. 229; ii. 280:
of flesh-fly, i. 398.
_Maggots_, what, i. 64:
jumping, ii. 280.
_Magnus_, Albertus, iv. 436.
_Maize_, insects that attack, i. 171, 174.
_Males_, two kinds of? iv. 173:
secondary characters of, assumed by females, ii. 134.
_Man_, centre of the animal creation, iv. 369.
_Mandibles_ (unguiform) use of, ii. 272.
_Marrow_, Spinal, iv. 8.
_May-fly._ See _Fly_.
_Meal-worm_, i. 227; iii. 141.
_Medicine_, insects useful in, i. 315.
_Metamorphoses_ of insects, analogy between and the resurrection, i.
60, 72:
use of, 77:
analogies of those of plants and animals, iii. 57.
_Method_, what? iv. 365.
_Microscopes_, iv. 201, 570.
_Midges_, ii. 306.
_Migrations_ of insects, iv. 523.
_Milk_ produced by insects, ii. 242, 248; iv. 140.
_Mineral_ substances eaten by insects, i. 235, 380.
_Mite_, autumnal, or harvest bug, i. 96, 103:
bee, 163:
beetle, iv. 234:
cheese, i. 229, 310; iii. 107:
dysentery, i. 89:
flour, 228:
itch, 90:
milk, 88:
spider, iv. 236:
spinning or red spider, i. 203:
strawberry, ii. 307:
vegetating, i. 392; iv. 234.
_Mites_ that infest collections of insects, &c. how best destroyed,
iv. 140.
_Mitys_, what? ii. 479.
_Mole-cricket_, ravages of, i. 193:
nest of, ii. 254:
a burrower, 362:
whether luminous, 416:
wonderful apparatus for moving its arms, iii. 584.
_Monomerous_ insects, iii. 684.
_Moses_, knowledge of insects, i. 22; iv. 430.
_Mosquito_, a _Simulium_, i. 112, 118.
See _Gnat_.
_Moth_, aquatic, iv. 56:
barley, i. 174:
brown-tail, 206, 209:
clothes, 232, 462:
emperor, 336; ii. 248:
figure-of-eight, i. 199:
fir, 131; ii. 22:
fur, i. 233:
ghost or hop, 183; iii. 66, 269, 305:
gold or yellow-tail, i. 30; ii. 21, 250:
gooseberry and currant, i. 197; ii. 446:
grass, i. 179:
great-goat, 211; ii. 297; iii. 119, 173, 200, 351:
lackey, iii. 80:
lappet, ii. 219; iii. 99:
lobster, ii. 251:
locust, iii. 282:
procession, i. 130, 475; ii. 23:
prominent, iii. 151:
puss, ii. 248, 250; iii. 284; iv. 221:
silk-worm, i. 334; iii. 89, 280:
tapestry, i. 233:
tiger, ii. 223, 249; iii. 175:
wax, i. 165, 388:
wolf, i. 172:
wool, i. 233.
_Moth_, remarkable brush of, iv. 60:
one resembling a caterpillar, 165.
_Mothing_, seasons of, iv. 524.
_Moths_, certain that construct curious habitations, i. 454, 462; ii.
471:
minute, how to be taken, iv. 540.
---- greasy, how to restore, iv. 145.
_Mouffet_, iv. 439.
_Moulting._ See _Insects_.
_Muscles_ of insects, origin of, iv. 175:
substance of, 175:
shape, 177:
colour, 178:
kinds, 178:
point of attachment, 179:
motions, 180:
muscles of larvæ, 181:
of imago head and organs, 182:
of trunk, 184:
of wings, 186:
of abdomen, 191:
of viscera, 193.
----, of Arachnida, iv. 194.
_Myriapods_, have six legs only at first, iii. 23:
analogues of serpents, 40; iv. 418.
_Myrtle_, attacked by a coccus, i. 195.
_Nature_, book of, Bible of man before the fall, i. 22.
_Nectar of flowers_, numerous insects devoted to its absorption, iv.
492.
_Nectarine_, attacked by insects, i. 202.
_Nerves_ of insects, number of, iv. 15:
recurrent, 16.
_Nervous system_ of insects, mixed, iv. 21, 23:
changes of in their metamorphosis, 23.
_Nervures_, of wings, iii. 292, 688.
_Net_, bag, iv. 529:
fly or bat-fowling, 531:
French, 529:
Maclean's, 533:
Paul's, 530:
landing or water, 534.
_Neuters_, ii. 30; iv. 172.
_Nine-killer_, i. 288.
_Nocturnal_ insects, i. 391; iv. 526.
_Noises_ of insects, how produced, ii. 376:
of beetles, &c. 386.
See _Humming_.
_Nut_, weevil of, i. 203.
_Nymph_, i. 65:
cased nymph, 67.
_Odours_, insect, ii. 238; iv. 146.
_Œstrus_ of the Greeks, what? i. 153. note.
_Oils_ produced by insects, iv. 139.
_Olive_, insects that attack, i. 203.
_Ophthalmia_, sometimes caused by insects, i. 88.
_Orange_, attacked by acoccus, i. 195.
_Orchard_ and _Fruitery_, insect enemies of, i. 195.
_Orders_ of insects, denominations of, i. 66, note:
definitions of, iv. 377:
which should precede, 425:
osculant, 378.
_Orismology_ (term), iii. 527; iv. 257.
_Ovo-viviparous_ insects, iv. 170.
_Palpi_, of what sense organs, iv. 256.
_Paper_ made by wasps, i. 15, 501.
_Parasites_ of insects:--
_vegetable_, iv. 215:
_Insect_;
hymenopterous, i. 267; iv. 216:
strepsipterous, i. 270; iv. 216:
dipterous, i. 270; iv. 231:
apterous, 232:
_Worms_, 237.
_Passions_, human, symbolized by insects, ii. 28. note.
_Pax-wax_, iv. 183.
_Peaches_, insects that attack, i. 202.
_Pears_, insects that attack, i. 199.
_Peck_ (Professor), his description of the ovipositor of saw-flies,
iv. 160.
_Penny_ (Dr. Thomas), iv. 439.
_Pentamerous_ insects, iii. 681.
_Perspiration_ of insects, iv. 151.
_Phosphorus_, iv. 149.
_Phthiriasis_, or lousy disease, i. 84; iv. 232.
_Phthirophagi_, i. 310.
_Pigeons_, insects that infest, i. 163.
_Pine-apple_, insects that attack, i. 203.
_Pissoceros_, what? ii. 174.
_Plant-lice_, extraordinary fecundity of, i. 175; iv. 166:
numbers of, ii. 8.
_Plant-louse_--
of the apple, i. 29, 200:
of the bean or Collier, 176:
of the beech, 211:
of the fir, 211, 451:
of the hop, 183:
of the larch, 211:
of roots, ii. 90:
of the rose, i. 194.
_Plants_, entrap flies, i. 293:
fecundated by insects, 296:
some yield poisonous honey, ii. 177.
_Pliny_, iv. 435.
_Plums_, insects that attack, i. 198.
_Pockets_ (wax), ii. 175.
_Poisons_, insect, iv. 143.
_Polymerous_ insects, iii. 685.
_Potatoes_, insects that attack, i. 186.
_Poultry_, insects that attack, i. 163.
_Praying-insects_ or _Mantes_, ferocity of, i. 278.
_Propolis_, what? ii. 183.
_Proportion_ (relative), of insects according to the kind of their
food, iv. 492.
_Pubescence_ of insects, uses of, iii. 398.
_Pupæ_, kinds of, i. 65; iii. 237:
Lamarck's and Latreille's division of, 241, note:
integument of, 243:
figure of, 245:
parts of, 248:
colour of, 258:
age of, 260:
sex of, 268:
motions of, ii. 293; iii. 269:
respiration of, iv. 74:
extrication of, iii. 270:
some copulate, 269.
_Pupiparous_ insects, iii. 64.
_Range_ (geographical) of insects, iv. 498.
_Raspberry_, insects that attack, i. 196.
_Ratel_ (honey), i. 281.
_Ray_ (John), system of insects, iv. 442.
_Reason_, some portion of in insects, ii. 508.
_Reaumur_, eulogium of, iv. 454.
_Resin_, insect, i. 329.
_Respiration_ of insects, how carried on, iv. 36:
external signs of, 73.
_Rooks_, serviceable by destroying insects, i. 30.
_Rope and Pulley_ in insects, iii. 700.
_Rye_ attacked by insects, i. 173.
_Salmon_, louse of, i. 166.
_Saprophagous_ insects, iv. 491.
_Saw-flies_, how they deposit their eggs, i. 355:
their ovipositor, 355; iv. 160:
vast flights of, ii. 10:
simulate death, ii. 233:
eggs of, grow, iii. 91:
why hymenopterous, iv. 382, 416:
their scent organs, ii. 242, 248:
slimy larvæ of, 225.
_Saw-fly_, barley, i. 173:
cherry, 197:
gooseberry, 197:
rose, 194, 355:
turnip, 187; ii. 10.
_Schwenckfeeld_, Dr., first faunist, iv. 440.
_Scolechiasis_, i. 99; iv. 232.
_Scorpion_, terrific attitude of, i. 124:
ferocity of, 279:
gills of, iv. 61:
liver of, 123.
----, water, eggs of, iii. 94.
_Scripture_ (Holy), account of insects, iv. 431.
_Sculpture_ of insect integument, uses of, iii. 396, 654.
_Seasons_ of insects, iv. 520.
_Secretions_ of insects:--
silk, iv. 136:
saliva, 137:
varnish, 139:
jelly, 139:
oils, 139:
milk, 134:
honey, 140:
wax, 141:
poisons and acids, 143:
odorous fluids and vapours, 146:
phosphorus, 149:
fat, 150.
_Semicomplete_ pupa, i. 67.
_Sensation_, organs of, iv. 1.
_Senses_ of insects, whether seven, iv. 241:
they have the ordinary, 244:
internal sense, 242:
sight, 242:
hearing, 243:
antennæ, whether organs of, 247:
touch, 255:
smell, 257:
taste, 264.
_Sensorium_, common, where resident, iv. 19.
_Seven_, a sacred number, iii. 15, note; iv. 241:
quinary groups resolvable into, 409.
_Sheep_, insects that infest, i. 157.
_Shell-fish_, insects that infest, i. 166.
_Showers_ (bloody), produced by insects, i. 34.
_Shrike._ See _Butcher-bird_.
_Silk_, i. 332.
_Silk-worms_, kinds of, i. 334:
diseases of, iv. 212:
not attacked by ichneumons, 228:
how to forward their exclusion, iii. 101.
_Skeletons_ (of small animals), how to obtain, i. 258. note.
_Skin_ of insects, iii. 400.
_Skunk_, ii. 238.
_Sleep_ of insects, iv. 199.
_Sloane_ (Sir Hans), encomium of, iv. 446.
_Slugs_ (wheat) how best destroyed, i. 181. note.
_Slug-worm_, i. 198.
_Soap_, manufactured from insects, i. 316.
_Societies_, of insects, imperfect, ii. 3:
perfect, 27.
_Society_, Royal, iv. 446.
----, Linnean, iv. 459.
----, Zoological, 460.
_Solomon_, knew insects, i. 23; ii. 46.
_Sow-bug_, i. 140.
_Sparrows_, number of caterpillars they devour, i. 291.
_Species_, iv. 405:
how to investigate, 563.
_Spectre_, large egg of, iii. 90.
_Sphinx_, why so named, ii. 234.
_Spider_, amphibious, i. 470:
bird, 422; iii. 490:
edible, i. 310:
gossamer, ii. 330:
large field or diadem, i. 405:
red, 203:
shepherd, ii. 305:
small garden, i. 415:
trap-door, 467:
once tamed, iv. 23.
_Spiders_, hunters, i. 422:
swimmers, 424:
vagrants, 422:
weavers or sedentaries, 403; iv. 31.
----, affection for their eggs, i. 361:
webs, texture of and how spun, 403, 420; iv. 129:
wonderful apparatus for spinning, i. 403:
floating nest of, 423:
nest under water, 470:
web destroyed by fluid emitted by a caterpillar, ii. 245:
sailing in the air, 331:
effects of their venom, i. 131:
cruelty, 279:
gills of, iv. 61:
liver of, 124:
disease of, 214.
_Spines_ of caterpillars, sometimes venomous, iii. 179.
_Spiracles_ (false), iii. 712.
_Spirits-of-wine_, their use in destroying insects, iv. 536, 538, 541.
_Stamina_ of flowers, adhering to bees mistaken for fungi, iv. 215.
_Stick_, entomological, iv. 529.
_Stomach_ of insects, iv. 105:
peculiar of bugs, 117.
_Strawberry_, whether attacked by insects, i. 195; ii. 307.
_Strength_ (muscular) of insects, iv. 195.
_Strepsiptera_ (order), denomination proper, iii. 589, note.
_Subclasses_, iv. 375.
_Subclimates_, iv. 497.
_Suborders_, iv. 400.
_Suckers_ on the feet of insects, ii. 318; iii. 692.
_Sugar-cane_, insect assailants of, i. 183.
_Swammerdam_, system of, iv. 441.
_Swine_, insects that infest, i. 159.
_System_, what? iv. 365.
---- (nervous), of animals, four primary types of, iv. 3:
what analogous to, 20.
---- of the development of insect forms by Dr. Herold, refutation of,
iii. 52, 191.
_Systems_ of insects, alary, iv. 447:
eclectic, 465:
maxillary, 460:
metamorphotic, 441:
quinary, 477.
_Tarantula_ spider, effects of bite, i. 127.
_Taste_, organs of in insects, iv. 264.
_Tetramerous_ insects, iii. 683.
_Thalerophagous_ insects, iv. 491.
_Tick_, American, i. 105, 146:
dog, 104, 162; ii. 220, 304.
_Timber_, insects that attack, i. 234.
_Times_ of appearance of insects, iv. 523.
_Timour Beg_, anecdote of, ii. 100.
_Tobacco_, insects that attack, i. 185.
_Tool_ for cutting pins, &c. iv. 557.
_Torpidity_ of insects, iv. 78:
causes of, ii. 437:
their reviviscence from, 450.
_Touch_, organs of in insects, iv. 255.
_Trachea_ or wind-pipe of insects, iv. 62:
analogy between and the spiral vessels of plants, iv. 70.
_Tree-creeper_, i. 290.
_Trees_, injured by insects, i. 207:
particularly by a small beetle, 212.
_Trimerous_ insects, iii. 684.
_Trunk_ of insects, reasons assigned for the nomenclature of, iii.
527.
_Turnip_, greatly injured by insects, i. 187; ii. 10.
_Vacuum_ formed by the little caterpillar of a moth, i. 16, 458.
_Varnish_, produced by insects, iv. 139.
_Vegetables_, fly-catchers, i. 293.
_Vessel_ (dorsal), of insects, iv. 83, 96:
varicose or bile, 109.
_Vine_, attacked by insects, i. 204; ii. 331; iv. 512.
_Virey_, Dr., system of animals, iv. 371:
theory of instinct, 26.
_Wasp_, bee, ii. 221, 363:
blue-sand, 380:
caterpillar or sand, 363; iv. 138:
common, i. 16; ii. 106:
fly, 363:
golden, 222, 231:
mason, i. 348, 358, 444:
spider, 347: ii. 354, 363.
_Wasps_, females, i. 372:
love of their progeny, 373:
nests of, 501:
numbers of, 374; ii. 108:
sentinels, 111:
destruction of, 112:
kept in hives, how they proceed, 112:
walk against gravity, 327:
how they act if their prey is too heavy, 514:
fluid effused by, iv. 138:
poison of, 145.
_Water_, stagnant, purified by larvæ, i. 259.
_Wax_ (bees'), i. 326, 487; iv. 141.
---- (coccus), i. 327.
_Weevil_, clover, i. 178:
common, 172:
dock, ii. 277:
figwort, 271:
millet, i. 173:
nut, 203, 357:
palm, 301; ii. 318:
rice, i. 173:
water-hemlock, 149.
_Weevils_, ii. 232, 318.
_Wheat_, numerous insects attack, i. 167.
_Wheel_, animal, ii. 447.
_Willughby_, encomium of, iv. 444.
_Winglets_, use of, ii. 354.
_Wings_ of insects, ii. 342; iii. 616:
apparatus for steadying them, iii. 336.
_Wood-louse_ (timber), ravages of, i. 238.
_Wood-pecker_, i. 31, 290.
_Works_, Entomological, which useful to the entomologist, iv. 483,
note.
_Worm_, wire, ravages of, i. 180, 188:
hand or wheale, 92:
wheat, or _Vibrio Tritici_, iv. 238.
_Worms_, intestinal, iv. 237.
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