R spot during migration, 96 occasionally penetrates to our shores, ; crossing the ocean, 108, 126 Rachitic condition of locusts, cause of, 108 post-embryonic development, loi 130. 131 Reaumur, the earliest writer on sound Schizodactyhis vioiistrosus. 158 made by Death's Head Moth, 233 Scorpions, as locust-enemies, 129 Rearing Death's Head Moth, difficulty Scudder, on the song of Katydids, 150 on the music of the Stenobothri, 90 of, 232, 242 Riley, on hatching of Rocky Mountain on the Protophasmidre, 79

Locust, 100 Sea, Death's Head Moth at, 238, 239, 241 on music of Locustida-, 148, 149 Seas, that locusts traverse, of consider-on music of Microcentrnm relinervc, able width, 108, 125, 126

; 149; on its interesting habits, 150 Sense-organs, in Acridiida;, 83, 84, 91 Rocky Mountain Locust, arrangement of sense of sight, of sound, of touch, and taste, 84, 92 air-sacs in, 85 I j in Locustidoe, 141, 145 appearance, 108 extent of period of oviposition, 96; I Sloane's, Sir Hans, history, on locusts crossing the ocean, 126 number of egg-masses, 96 migratory habit, 108 SmerinthiuEe, 224, 225, 227, 22S process of hatching, 100 Song, gift of, Acridiida remarkable for, 88 apparatus for producing sound, 88, 8() in aberrant forms of Acridiida, 88, 135,

S music characteristic of male, 90 Sack-bearers, young, at home, 206 I of importance to Acridiida, 88 ingenuity in construction of cases, 20O, Sound emitted by Death's Head Molli, 208, 209 2^,^, 236

'54 INDEX.

Sound emitled by larva of, 234; its nature and cause, 234, 235 by pupa of, 234 Tachina-flies, as locust-enemies, 114, 130, Special Protective and Aggressive Re- 131 semblance, beautiful examples of, annoyances of, as one of llie causes of 30, 35, 52, 60, 67, 132. 135, 154, 1S3 locust migration, 1 14 Spectre, the pink-winged, 64 Tanana, its extraordinary music, 148; Sphingida^ their aniennx, 185, 219 kept in cages for sake of its song, have their metropolis in the tropics, 22S 148, 153 occasional visitors from sunny climes, Tegmen of the female Phyllium, an ex- 229 ceptional structure, 70 pupation of, 220, 224, 225, 227 Tegmina in Phasmida-, usually of small sub-families of, 220; Macroglos^imv;, size or absent, 42, 43

Chœrocampinæ, Ambulicinæ, Sphinginæ, Manducinæ, Smerinthinæ, 220.

Tegmina: attached to posterior part of mesothorax, 42, 43.

the natural position of the, 226 Tettigides, 132-134 SphinginK, extraordinary length of Tettix, the genus, 134, 140 tongue, 224 Tibial ears, 145 Sphinx-like attitude of larvK of Si)hin- two principal kinds, 145; siructure, gidae, 220 145, 146; function, 146 Spiders as locust-enemies, 12; Tiger-beetles as locust-enemies, 129 Si)ine, posterior, or caudal horn of larva Trathypetra bufo, Trimen on, 139 of Sphingida, 220, 226 Trap-door spiders as locust-enemies, 129 Stauronolns inaroccanus, method of Trimen on Trachypetra bufo, 139 hatching, 99; the ampulla. 99, 100 Tropidoderus, 47, 64 egg-parasites of, 98 Tryxalides, 133, 155 Stenobothrus, music of, 89-91, 138, 140 resemblance to, of slender stick-like forms in the genus Pcringucyella, 155 ears of, 92 Slridulating apparatus in Acridiida, 89. Twilight fliers, butterflies as, 180 135. 137; in the female, 90, 91, 138 Tyndall on sound, 94 Slridulation of Acridiida, 88, 135, 137 during flight, 91 i; of Locustida, 147 specially characteristic of male, 90, Urania l/oisdiivalii, one of the most 135. 138, 147 beautiful Lepidoptera known, 195, Superstitions, relating to Death's Head 196

Moth, 235 egg-laying, larva, imago, 197-199 to Mantida, 3 inhabits Cuba, 195, 197, 199 Swainson on migration of Day-flying braziliensis, its migration, 200, 201

Moths, 201 fulgens, its migration, 200, 201 Symbols of Psyche, 163, 176 leihis, 200 their conspicuous beauty and abun- sloanits, 200 dance, 176 Uraniida, the brilliant, 185, 194 Synemon, the genus, 19G proved to belong to the Heterocera,i94

V Wallace, Dr., on Alluring Colouration, 35 Vaal river, crossed by " Voetgangers," on Walking-sticks proper, 63 118 " Weta-punga," the, 156 '' Voetgangers," interesting points in W^etas, the, an interesting group inhabit-their natural history, 117 ing New Zealand, 1 56-1 58 on attaining maturity, 123 Wingless locusts, how they cross rivers, their manner of travelling, 117, 118: 118, 121, 122, 125 no obstacle stays their course, how Wings, hind, in I'hasmida:, may be ihcy cross rivers, their methods in largely developed, 43, 46, 64, 67 water, 11 8, 121, 122 interesting provision for their defence, 43

Walking-sticks proper, 41, 44-46, 48, Xerophylluni, the genus, 134 63; Wallace on, 63 Xiphidium cnsiferni/i, deposition of its beautiful and giant-winged forms, 46, eggs in galls, 143, 144 64, 67 time required for embryonic develop-bizarre shapes, 41, 65 ment, 144; for post-embryonic de-that they are a singularly isolated velopment, 144 group, 79 that they come of a remote antiquity, 78 Wallace, Dr., and Bates, their encounter of Hawk Moths at sea, 238 Yucca Borer, the, 190

THE END.

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