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Curious Facts in the History of Insects

by Frank Cowan

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Authors Quoted
  3. 3Order I. — Coleoptera — Beetles
  4. 4Chrysomelidæ — Gold-beetles
  5. 5Carabidæ
  6. 6Pausidæ
  7. 7Dermestidæ — Leather-beetles
  8. 8Lucanidæ — Stag-beetles
  9. 9Scarabæidæ — Dung-beetles
  10. 10Dynastidæ — Hercules-beetle, etc.
  11. 11Melolonthidæ — Cock-chafers
  12. 12Cetoniidæ — Rose-chafers
  13. 13Buprestidæ — Burn-cows
  14. 14Elateridæ — Fire-flies, Spring-beetles, etc.
  15. 15Lampyridæ — Glow-worms
  16. 16Ptinidæ — Death-watch, etc.
  17. 17Bostrichidæ — Typographer-beetles
  18. 18Cantharidæ — Blister-flies
  19. 19Tenebrionidæ — Meal-worms
  20. 20Blapsidæ — Church-yard Beetle, etc.
  21. 21Curculionidæ — Weevils
  22. 22Cerambycidæ — Musk-beetles
  23. 23Galerucidæ — Turnip-fly, etc.
  24. 24Order II. — Euplexoptera — Forficulidæ — Ear-wigs
  25. 25Order III. — Orthoptera
  26. 26Mantidæ — Soothsayers, etc.
  27. 27Achetidæ — Crickets
  28. 28Gryllidæ — Grasshoppers
  29. 29Locustidæ — Locusts
  30. 30Order IV. — Neuroptera
  31. 31Ephemeridæ — Day-flies
  32. 32Libellulidæ — Dragon-flies
  33. 33Myrmeleonidæ — Ant-lions
  34. 34Order V. — Hymenoptera
  35. 35Cynipidæ — Gall-flies
  36. 36Formicidæ — Ants
  37. 37Vespidæ — Wasps, Hornets
  38. 38Apidæ — Bees
  39. 39Order VI. — Lepidoptera
  40. 40Sphingidæ — Hawk-moths
  41. 41Bombicidæ — Silk-worm Moths
  42. 42Arctiidæ — Wooly-bear Moths
  43. 43Psychidæ — Wood-carrying Moth, etc.
  44. 44Noctuidæ — Antler-moth, Cut-worm, etc.
  45. 45Geometridæ — Span-worms — Tineidæ — Clothes’-moth, Bee-moth, etc.
  46. 46Order VII. — Homoptera
  47. 47Fulgoridæ — Lantern-flies
  48. 48Aphidæ — Plant-lice
  49. 49Coccidæ — Shield-lice
  50. 50Order VIII. — Heteroptera
  51. 51Notonectidæ — Water-boatmen
  52. 52Order IX. — Diptera
  53. 53Tipulidæ — Crane-flies
  54. 54Muscidæ — Flies
  55. 55Œstridæ — Bot-flies
  56. 56Order X. — Aphaniptera — Pulicidæ — Fleas
  57. 57Order XI. — Anopleura — Pediculidæ — Lice
  58. 58Order XII. — Arachnida
  59. 59Phalangidæ — Daddy-Long-legs
  60. 60Pedipalpi — Scorpions
  61. 61Araneidæ — True Spiders
  62. 62Miscellaneous

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