THE LIFE Cazenovice NY.

16 December. 1859.

OF

NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS.

By B. JAEGER,

LATE PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY IN THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY.

ASSISTED BY H. C. PRESTON, M.D.

With Numerous Illustrations,

FROM SPECIMENS IN THE CABINET OF THE AUTHOR.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1859.

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34673A

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Remarks on Beetles, 18.-Carnivorous Beetles, 19.-The Northern

Lady-Bird, 20.-Its Use, 21.-Tiger Beetles, 22.-Green Cater-

pillar-Hunter, 24.-Red-Spotted Caterpillar-Hunter, 24.-Recol-

lections of the Crimea, 24.-Mr. Ditson's Circassia, 27.-Professor

Pallas and the Empress Catharine II., 28.-Scavenger Beetles, 31.

-Grubs eaten by the Ancients, 33.-Enthusiasm for the Study of

Insects, 33.-The Bronze Dung Beetle, 34.-Use of it, 35.-Catch-

ing and preserving Beetles, 36.-The Tumble-Bug, or Pellet Bee-

tle, 37.-The Egyptian Pellet Beetle, 37.-Wooden Fences injuri-

ous to Rural Economy, 38.-The Horned Passalus, 39.-The Stag

Beetle, 40.-The Indian Cetonia, 41.-The Fox-like Cetonia, 42.

-The Horned Fungus Eater, 43.-The Cabinet Beetle, 44.-The

Carrion Beetles, 45.-The Crusader Carrion Beetle, 46.-The Big

Grave-Digger, 46.- Herbivorous Beetles, or Plant Eaters, 47.

The Entomologist, 48.-Maxims and Cunning of Peter the Great,

Emperor of Russia, 49.-Spring Beetles, 49.-The Velvet-Spotted

Spring Beetle, 50.—The Lightning Spring Beetle, 51.—Human

Life saved by it, 52.-Nature of their Light, 53.-Capricorn Bee-

tles, 54.-The Painted Capricorn, 55.-Legislative Protection of

Birds, 56.-The Cloak-Bearing Capricorn, 56.- Snout Beetles,

57.-The Palm-Weevil, 58.-The Wheat-Weevil, 59.-The Rice

Weevil, 59.-The Pea-Weevil, 60.-The Leaf Eaters, 61.-The

Gilded Dandy, 61.

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ORDER II.—BUGS (HEMIPTERA).

The Red-Eyed Cicada, 64.-Its frequent Appearance, 65.-Letter

of Dr. T. W. Harris, 66.-Incorrectness of its Name, "Seventeen-

Years' Locust," 67.-The Locust mentioned in the Scriptures, 68.

—The Lyerman, 70.-Metamorphosis of Cicadas, 71.—Use of

them, 72.—Their different Species, 73.-Impositions in Natural

History, 74.-The Lantern-Fly of Madame Merian, 73.-The

Louse, 77.-Leuwenhoeck's Observations, 78.-Phthiriasis, 78.

-The Bed-Bug, 79.-The Persian Bug, 80.-The Banian Hos-

pital at Surat, 80.-The Squash-Bug, 81.-Its Injuries, and how

to prevent them, 81.-The Wheel-Bug, 82.-Tree-Hoppers, 82.—

Plant-Lice, 83.-Shield-Lice, 84.-How to prevent their Injuries,

85.-The Cochineal, 87.-Commerce with it, 88.-The Shellac