Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . leTornado-wasp . .Tsetse-fly, -A . .Tsetse-fly. FuscousTsetse-fly, Head ofTusseh silk-mothTusseh silk-moth cocoonTyphseus beetle Vegetable caterpillar Venus butterflyVine-aphis AGE 407 8S 35-334333307308390 43: Walking-leaf Insect 349, 330, 331Wasp, A queen .. . 396 Wasp-beetle . . . 446 Wasp-beetle, Obscure .. . 448 Wasp-nest beetle 121, 122, 1J3 PAGE Wasp, Nest of common . 398 Wasp, Xest of tree . . 403 \\asp on her comb, A queen . 401 Wasps life. Stages in . . 400 Wasps nest, A queen. .. 397 Wasps nest. Interior of . 4
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . leTornado-wasp . .Tsetse-fly, -A . .Tsetse-fly. FuscousTsetse-fly, Head ofTusseh silk-mothTusseh silk-moth cocoonTyphseus beetle Vegetable caterpillar Venus butterflyVine-aphis AGE 407 8S 35-334333307308390 43: Walking-leaf Insect 349, 330, 331Wasp, A queen .. . 396 Wasp-beetle . . . 446 Wasp-beetle, Obscure .. . 448 Wasp-nest beetle 121, 122, 1J3 PAGE Wasp, Nest of common . 398 Wasp, Xest of tree . . 403 \\asp on her comb, A queen . 401 Wasps life. Stages in . . 400 Wasps nest, A queen. .. 397 Wasps nest. Interior of . 402 Wasps winter sleep. The cjucen 399 .. .. 161 Wax, Production of . . 237 White admiral butterfly . 419 White ant .. . . 15 White ants as mushroom-growers . . . 31 White ermine-moth . . 447 Wing of emperor moth . 83 Winter moths . . . 455 Wood-boring beetle. Head of . 389 Wood-cricket .. . .. 174 Wood-wasps larder, The . 67 Yellow-faced beetle-wasp . 422Yellow-winged sphex . . 210. Photo by] The Hercules Beetle. [E. step, What is an Insect ? Ix a work intended to give a popular account of the \\ onders of Insect Life,it is essential that there should be a clear understanding as to the particular animalsthat are comprised under the term Insect. Formerly any li\-ing creature of smallsize was regarded as an Insect ; and we fear that among the present generationthere are many persons for whom the word has scarcely any more definite in this work we shall deal only with those animals that are acceptedas Insects by modernnaturalists ; for thoughwe shall endeayour todescribe their structureand their ways in languageimderstanded of thepeople, we hope to speakwith the accuracy that isoften wanting in p<)i)ularaccounts. All the multitudinous forms of animal life haye been sorted out by naturalists, and placed in a number of grand diyi- sions according to their possession of certain . ,^ , . „, . Insect .d Spider Contrasted. characteristics. I h
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