William Kirby

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY.

LETTER XVI. SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. IMPERFECT SOCIETIES.

LETTER XVII. SOCIETIES OF INSECTS CONTINUED. PERFECT SOCIETIES. ( White Ants and Ants. )

LETTER XVIII. SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. PERFECT SOCIETIES CONTINUED. ( Wasps and Humble-Bees. )

LETTER XIX. SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. PERFECT SOCIETIES CONTINUED. ( The Hive-bee [125] .)

LETTER XX. SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. PERFECT SOCIETIES CONCLUDED.

LETTER XXI. MEANS BY WHICH INSECTS DEFEND THEMSELVES.

LETTER XXII. MOTIONS OF INSECTS. ( Larva and Pupa. )

LETTER XXIII. MOTIONS OF INSECTS. ( Imago. )

LETTER XXIV. ON THE NOISES PRODUCED BY INSECTS.

LETTER XXV. ON LUMINOUS INSECTS.

LETTER XXVI. ON THE HYBERNATION AND TORPIDITY OF INSECTS.

LETTER XXVII. ON THE INSTINCT OF INSECTS.

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's Notes:

Plate IV

AN

INTRODUCTION

TO

ENTOMOLOGY:

OR

ELEMENTS

OF THE

NATURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS:

WITH PLATES.

By WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R. and L.S.

RECTOR OF BARHAM,
AND

WILLIAM SPENCE, Esq. F.L.S.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1828.

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