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to which they in their conspicuous clothing are the more exposed. Thus has it been with our maturity. By the clouding of our early prospects our youthful buoyancy was depressed, our youthful brightness shorn of its gayest hues; yet to those influences which appeared so adverse, owed we not escape from many of life's early perils? and now, owe we not the enjoyment of many a calm pleasure, vivified by the very privations which might have seemed to kill them? If none like the Spitalfields weaver knows the delight of insect-collecting, none like the city clerk can tell the delight of insect observation caught by snatches upon summer holidays. Such, for many a year, was ours; and now that our working-day of life is over, right pleasant have we found it to take our evening flight away for ever from its weary scenes, and to indulge without restraint in the manifold pleasures of our loved pursuit. Joyous to the bee and butterfly the exercise of their wings and senses amidst the sweets which fill the atmosphere they always live in; but yet more joyous to our prototype, the Cricket, must be a flight like his, when he exchanges for summer air and sunshine the contracted pleasures of house and hearth; and of this description is our enjoyment now. And then the correspondent boon-boon above a cricket's need or cricket's ken-our escape also from a moral atmosphere, hot, glaring, and heart-oppressive, sickly with the incense offered to Mammon by his servile worshippers, to an air, not, alas! of heavenly purity, but in which the

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lungs of the spirit may breathe comparatively free. Oh! this is a privilege which calls loudly for our evening hymn of praise, and to bear our part in concert with that graduated band descending from angel even unto insect choirs. And ill should we read that "second Bible," the Book of Nature, with all its actual displays and typical revealments, if we read not this-that He who in every episode of insect life is seen to conduct to good the humbler creatures of His care, cannot by us be doing less, in all the dispensations, be they sorrowful or joyous, which form the episodes of our human and, while here, most insect-like existence.

GENERAL INDEX.

Page.

Abraxas grossulariata (Magpie Moth), winter caterpillars of
Acari, or Mites, parasitic on black beetles and other insects
parasitic on birds and quadrupeds

parasitic on man

Acherontia Atropos (Death's-head Moth)

Acheta campestris (Field Cricket)

domestica (House Cricket), its characteristics

Achetida (Crickets)

Acridophagi (Locust-eaters)

Acrida viridissima (Large Green Grasshopper)

Admiral, the Red, or Alderman Butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta)

the White, or Camilla Butterfly (Limenitis Camilla)
Aeronautic Spiders, their webs, and shooting of their lines
Eshna varia (Green Dragon-fly)

Affection in insects and other animals, as apart from instinct

vol. i. 97

iii. 37, 205
iii. 206

iii. 207

ii. 306

iii. 15

i. 8

iii. 15

i. 159

i. 160, 200

ii. 112

ii. 131

ii. 127

ii. 273

iii. 90

Affections of insects, maternal and social, and their modes of mutual

Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume Moth)

Anacreon, Ode of, to the Tree-hopper, misnamed Grasshopper

i. 310

ii. 128

ii. 320

iii. 2

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Page.

Ancients, their great observance of Bees

Animals, the lower, probability of their continued existence

opinions of Southey and Lamartine

Anobium, the genus, Wood-boring Beetles

· pertinax and A. tessellatum

Antennæ, as organs of hearing

of the Rose-chafer

of the Stag Beetle

vol. ii. 210

iii. 354

iii. 355

iii. 138

iii. 138

i. 199, 213

ii. 80

ii. 83

of twilight and nocturnal Moths

ii. 212

Anthrenus, Beetles of the genus, living (as larvæ) upon desiccated

description of its grub, or larva, and the pitfall it constructs

iii. 243

Argus, or Alexis, Blue Butterfly (Polyommatus Alexis)

Argynnis, Butterflies of the genus

Argynnis Aglaia (Dark Green Fritillary)

Paphia (Silver-washed Fritillary)

i. 99

i. 310, 316

ii. 135

ii. 125

ii. 125

ii. 125

Argyroneta aquatica (Diving Water Spider)

i. 137, iii. 308

Atmospheric changes, sensibility of Insects to .

Awl, or Piercer, of female Gall-fly, used in depositing eggs

Bark-builders, caterpillars of Pyralis Strigulalis

Banyan Hospital, near Surat, for animals, including insects
Bishop Heber's account of

Beauty, natural, probable design of
Bedeguar, or Moss-gall of the Rose

Bee Clear-wing Moth (Sesia apiformis)

Bee Hawk-moth (Sesia fusiformis)
Bee-hives, American

of glass

stores of treasure, natural and moral

i. 205

iii. 329

ii. 99

iii. 204

iii. 218

i. 319

ii. 67

ii. 321

ii. 321

ii. 212

ii. 200

ii. 194