INDEX.

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Achæa mercatoria, Fabr. 191

Achias longividens, Walk. 121 latividens, Walk. 121 amplividens, Walk. 122

Achiides, Walk. 121

Acidalidæ, Guénée 195, 198

Adraga, Walk. 82 univitta, Walk. 82

Adrama, Walk. 117 selecta, Walk. 118

Agaristidæ, Swainson 183, 196

Agathis fumipennis, Sm. 176 modesta, Sm. 25 nitida, Sm. 26 sculpturalis, Sm. 25

Agenia, Alcyone, Sm. 155 Althea, Sm. 154 Amalthea, Sm. 155 bimaculata, Sm. 13 blanda, Guér. 13, 154 Callisto, Sm. 154 jucunda, Sm. 154

Alastor apicatus, Sm. 166 unifasciatus, Sm. 165

Allodape nitida, Sm. 134

Ammophila insolata, Sm. 14

Amorphopus, Bell 27 cylindraceus, Bell 27

Amphidasydæ, Guénée 193

Anas punctata, Cuvier 33

Andrenidæ, Leach 5, 132

Angitula, Walk. 123 longicollis, Walk. 123

Anisodes expunctaria, Walk. 194

Anomis mutilata, Walk. 189

Anthomyia procellaria, Walk. 108

Anthomyides, Walk. 107, 130

Anthophora elegans, Sm. 135 zonata, Linn. 8, 135

Anthrax degenera, Walk. 90 pelops, Walk. 90 semiscita, Walk. 90

Apis zonata, Sm. 8

Argiva hieroglyphica, Drury 191

Argonauta tuberculosa 34

Aricia canivitta, Walk. 107

Aricia significans, Walk. 107 squalens, Walk. 130 vicaria, Walk. 130

Artaxa varians, Walk. 189

Asilidæ, Leach 83, 128

Asilites, Walk. 87

Asilus longistylus, Wied. 88 superveniens, Walk. 128

Attacus Atlas, Linn. 188

Baccha purpuricola, Walk. 129

Bee, death of the Common Hive Bee occasioned by a parasitic fungus 29

Bembex melancholica, Sm. 160 trepanda, Dahlb. 15

Bembicidæ, Westw. 15

Bengalia spissa, Walk. 107

Bibionidæ, Haliday 77

Bizone hamata, Walk. 186

Bombilidæ, Leach 90

Bombyx subnotata, Walk. 188

Bombycidæ 188

Bombylites, Walk. 90

Bracon abdominalis, Sm. 175 albo-marginatus, Sm. 174 basalis, Sm. 174 exoletus, Sm. 175 insinuator, Sm. 24 intrudens, Sm. 24, 176 nigripennis, Sm. 175 nitidus, Sm. 175 pallifrons, Sm. 176

Braconidæ 24

Brea, Walk. 117 contraria, Walk. 117 discalis, Walk. 117

Briarda plagifera, Walk. 189

Bulonga, Walk. 193 schistacearia, Walk. 193

Cœlyoxys fulvifrons, Sm. 7

Calobata Abana, Walk. 124 albitarsis, Wied. 124 indica, Desv. 124 sepsoides, Walk. 124

Cardiacephala debilis, Walk. 124

Carea varipes, Walk. 197

Catephidæ, Guénée 190

Ceratina hieroglyphica, Sm. 7 viridis, Guér. 7

Cerceris fuliginosa, Sm. 19 instabilis, Sm. 18 unifasciata, Sm. 19 varipes, Sm. 19

Cereopsis Novæ Hollandiæ 33

Cerea relicta, Walk. 93, 94 smaragdina, Walk. 93

Cetacea, R. Knox on the Anatomy and Natural History of the 63

Chrysididæ 26, 177

Chrysis insularis, Sm. 26 purpurea, Sm. 26 sumptuosa, Sm. 27

Chrysopila vacillans, Walk. 89

Clitellaria bivittata, Fabr. 80

Cæcila complexa, Walk. 191

Cælopa inconspicua, Walk. 108

Cænosia luteicornis, Walk. 108

Coturnix pectoralis, Gould 33

Cotuza confirmata, Walk. 197

Crabro (Rhopalum) agilis, Sm. 18 solitarius, Sm. 162

Crabronidæ 18

Crematogaster elegans, Sm. 149 insularis, Sm. 149 obscura, Sm. 149

Crocisa nitidula, Fabr. 134

Cryptoceridæ, Sm. 150

Cryptus scutellatus, Sm. 170

Culex scutellaris, Walk. 77

Culicidæ, Haliday 185

Cyclosia nivipetens, Walk. 185 submaculans, Walk. 185

Dacus expandens, Walk. 114 latifascia, Walk. 114 lativentris, Walk. 115 longivitta, Walk. 115 mutilloides, Walk. 115 obtrudens, Walk. 116 pectoralis, Walk. 114 pompiloides, Walk. 116

Darabitta, Walk. 187 strigicosta, Walk. 187

Darantasia, Walk. 186 cuneiplena, Walk. 186

Daristane, Walk. 193 tibiaria, Walk. 194

Dasygastræ, Sm. 6, 134

Dasypogon inopinus, Walk. 83 honestus, Walk. 83

Dasypogonites, Walk. 83

Deiopeia detracta, Walk. 186

Denudata 7

Dexia pectoralis, Walk. 101

Dexides, Walk. 101

Diaphorus resumens, Walk. 93

Diodon 76

Dolichopidæ, Leach 91

Dolichopus trigonifer, Walk. 92

Delphinis 63

Drapetodes mitaria, Guér. 195

Drosophila? finigutta, Walk. 126 ? imperata, Walk. 126 ? melanospila, Walk. 126

Dryomyza semicyanea, Walk. 109

Ectatomma rugosa, Sm. 143

Empidæ, Leach 91, 129

Ennomidæ, Guén. 193

Ephydra? taciturna, Walk. 127

Ephyra quadristriaria, Walk. 194

Ephyridæ, Guénée 194

Erebidæ, Guéneé 191

Eristalis conductus, Walk. 95 muscoïdes, Walk. 96 resolutus, Walk. 95, 129 splendens, Leguillon 95 suavissimus, Walk. 95

Evanidæ, Leach 169

Eumelea Rosaliata, Cram. 194

Eumenes architectus, Sm. 20 arcuata, Fabr. 163 circinalis, Fabr. 20 floralis, Sm. 20 fulvipennis, Sm. 20 vindex, Sm. 20

Eumenidæ, Westw. 19, 163

Eurygaster decipiens, Walk. 100 phasioïdes, Walk. 100 tentans, Walk. 99

Euschema subrepleta, Walk. 196

Eusemia maculatrix, Westw. 183, 196 mollis, Walk. 183, 196 subdives, Walk. 196

Fœnus gracilis, Sm. 169

Formica angulata, Sm. 139 cordata, Sm. 137 coxalis, Sm. 136 flavitarsus, Sm. 136 fragilis, Sm. 136 gracilipes, Sm. 136 lævissima, Sm. 138 mutilata, Sm. 137 nitida, Sm. 138 oculata, Sm. 137 quadriceps, Sm. 137 scrutator, Sm. 138 sericata, Guér. 139 sexspinosa, Latr. 139 virescens, Fabr. 135

Formicidæ 135

Gabaza, Walk. 80 argentea, Walk. 80

Galathea Andrewsii, Sp. Bate 3 depressa, Sp. Bate 3 dispersa, Sp. Bate 3 nexa 3 squamifera, Sp. Bate 3 strigosa 2

Gammarus affinis, M.-Ed. 3 Kröyii, Rathke 3 Locusta, Leach 3 Olivii, M.-Ed. 3

Geomyzides, Fallen 126

Geron simplex, Walk. 90

Gonopteridæ, Guénée 189

Gorytes constrictus, Latr. 160 vagus, Sm. 161

Graptomyza tibialis, Walk. 95

Gynoplistia jurgiosa, Walk. 78

Hæmatophis fuliginosus 33

Halmaturus Billardierii 32

Hedychrum flammulatum, Sm. 26

Helomyza atripennis, Walk. 109 picipes, Walk. 109 restituta, Walk. 109

Helomyzides, Fallen 108

Helophilus mesoleucus, Walk. 96 quadrivittatus, Wied. 96

Hiaticula bicincta 33

Hippoboscidæ, Leach 127

Hybos bicolor, Walk. 91 deficiens, Walk. 129

Hyblæa tortricoïdes, Guén. 197

Hyblæidæ, Guéneé 197

Hydromyzides, Haliday 127

Hypena ruralis, Walk. 192

Hypenidæ, Herr Schæff. 192

Hypernaria diffundens, Guén. 192

Hypogrammidæ, Guénée 189

Hypsa egens, Walk. 185 silvandra, Cram. 185

Icaria brunnea, Sm. 167 fasciata, Sm. 167 ferruginea, Sauss. 22 gracilis, Sm. 167 maculiventris, Sm. 167 nigra, Sm. 16 pilosa, Sm. 22 unicolor, Sm. 168

Ichneumon insularis, Sm. 170

Ichneumonidæ, Leach 23, 170

Idia æqualis, Walk. 103 australis, Walk. 103 testacea, Macq. 130 xanthogaster, Wied. 130

Ischnogaster iridipennis, Sm. 166

Lamprogaster celyphoïdes, Walk. 112 delectans, Walk. 111 marginifera, Walk. 111 quadrilinea, Walk. 111 scutellaris, Walk. 112 tetyroïdes, Walk. 112 ventralis, Walk. 131

Laphria aperta, Walk. 87 aurifacies, Macq. 84 comes, Walk. 85 consobrina, Walk. 84 consors, Walk. 85 declarata, Walk. 87 flagrantissima, Walk. 86 germana, Walk. 86 gloriosa, Walk. 84 justa, Walk. 86 manifesta, Walk. 87 paradisiaca, Walk. 128 placens, Walk. 128 scapularis, Wied. 84 socia, Walk. 84 sodalis, Walk. 85

Laphrites, Walk. 128

Larinus maculatus, Falderm. 179 mellificus, Jekel 181

Larra prismatica, Sm. 16 simillima, Sm. 159

Larrada ædilis, Sm. 16 aurifrons, Sm. 16 aurulenta, Sm. 16 exilipes, Sm. 16 festinans, Sm. 17 personata, Sm. 16 modesta, Sm. 159 rufipes, Sm. 17

Larridæ 16

Larus pacificus 33

Lauxania duplicans, Walk. 110 minuens, Walk. 110

Lauxanides, Walk. 110

Lepidosiren 76

Leptidæ, Westw. 89

Leptis ferruginosa, Wied. 89

Leptogaster albimanus, Walk. 89 ferrugineus, Walk. 89 longipes, Walk. 89

Leucanidæ, Guénée 188

Limacodidæ, Duponchel 188

Liparidæ, Boisduval 187, 197

Lissa cylindrica, Walk. 125

Lithosiidæ, Stephens 184, 196

Lonchæa inops, Walk. 110

Lygnioides endoleuca, Guén. 190, 197

Macna pomalis, Walk. 192

Macroglossa corythus, Boisd. 196 Passalus, Drury 196

Macromeris iridipennis, Sm. 156 splendida, St. Farg. 13

Malopteruris 76

Margarodes amphitritalis, Guén. 193

Margarodidæ, Guéneé 193

Masca abactalis, Walk. 192

Masicera guttata, Walk. 99 notabilis, Walk. 97 simplex, Walk. 99 solennis, Walk. 98 tentata, Walk. 98

Massicyta cerioïdes, Walk. 78 inflata, Walk. 78

Megachile fulvifrons, Sm. 6 incisa, Sm. 6 insularis 134 lateritia 134 scabrosa 134 terminalis, Sm. 7

Megischus indicus, Westw. 23

Megistocera tuscana, Wied. 78

Meranoplus spinosus, Sm. 150

Mesostenus agilis, Sm. 171 albopictus, Sm. 172 albo-spinosus, Sm. 23 pictus, Sm. 171

Microdon apicalis, Walk. 94 fulvicornis, Walk. 94

Micronia rectinervata, Guén. 195

Micronidæ, Guénée 195

Miresa curvifera, Walk. 188

Montezumia indica, Sauss. 19

Morphota formosa, Sm. 17

Musca benedicta, Walk. 105 domestica, Linn. 105 eristaloïdes, Walk. 106 gloriosa, Walk. 104 macularis, Walk. 104 marginifera, Walk. 105 obscurata, Walk. 105 obtrusa, Walk. 105, 130 opulenta, Walk. 104 patiens, Walk. 106

Muscidæ, Latr. 97, 129

Muscides, Walk. 103, 130

Mutilla carinata, Sm. 150 exilis, Sm. 151 manifesta, Sm. 150 nigra, Sm. 151 rufogastra, Sm. 9 sexmaculata, Swed. N. A. Holm. 9 Sibylla, Sm. 150 unifasciata, Sm. 9 volatilis, Sm. 9

Mutillidæ, Leach 9, 150

Mycetophilidæ, Haliday 77

Mygnimia aspasia, Sm. 157 fumipennis, Sm. 13 iridipennis, Sm. 13

Myrmica carinata, Sm. 148 mellea, Sm. 148 parallela, Sm. 147 scabrosa, Sm. 147 suspiciosa, Sm. 148 thoracica, Sm. 148

Mysticetus 70

Mythymna inducens, Walk. 188

Myzine tenuicornis, Sm. 151

Nautilus pompilius, T. H. Huxley on the anatomy of 36

Nerius duplicatus, Wied. 125

Nerua, Walk. 81 scenopinoïdes, Walk. 8

Neurina procopialis, Cram. 193

Nomia cincta, Sm. 132 dentata, Sm. 133 flavipes, Sm. 5 formosa, Sm. 5 haliotoïdes, Sm. 6 longicornis, Sm. 133 punctata, Sm. 5

Notodontidæ, Stephens 187

Nyctalemon Hector, White 183

Nyctemera mundipicta, Walk. 184 tripunctaria, Linn. 196

Obrapa, Walk. 82 celyphoïdes, Walk. 83 perilampoïdes, Walk. 82

Odontomachus malignus, Sm. 144 simillimus, Sm. 144 tyrannicus, Sm. 144

Odynerus agilis, Sm. 164 (Ancistrocerus) clavicornis, Sm. 21 fulvipennis, Sm. 22 (Leionotus) insularis, Sm. 21 modestus, Sm. 165 multipictus, Sm. 165 petiolatus, Sm. 164

Ommatius lucifer, Walk. 88 noctifer, Walk. 88, 129 retrahens, Walk. 88

Ommatophoridæ, Guénée 191

Ophideres discrepans, Walk. 190 Salaminia, Cram. 190 smaragdipicta, Walk. 190

Ophideridæ, Guénée 190

Ophisma Umminia, Cram. 191

Ophiusa fulvotænia, Guén. 197

Ophiusidæ, Guénée 191, 197

Ornithomyia parva, Macq. 127

Ortalides, Haliday 111-131

Ortalis prompta, Walk. 118 complens, Walk. 118

Orthoneura basalis, Walk. 97

Orthosidæ, Guénée 197

Oscinides, Haliday 125

Oscinis lineiplena, Walk. 125 noctilux, Walk. 126

Oxybelus agilis, Sm. 18

Oxyssus maculipennis, Sm. 177

Pachymenes viridis, Sm. 163

Pallura, Walk. 127 invaria, Walk. 127

Palyadæ, Guénée 194

Pantana bicolor, Walk. 187, 197

Patula macrops, Linn. 191

Pelopæus bengalensis, Dahlb. 14 flavo-fasciatus, Sm. 15 intrudens, Sm. 15 laboriosus, Sm. 154 madraspatanus, Fabr. 14

Phaps elegans 33

Phoridæ, Haliday 127

Phyllodidæ, Guénée 190, 197

Pidorus constrictus, Walk. 185

Pimpla braconoïdes, Sm. 172 ferruginea, Sm. 173 ochracea, Sm. 172 penetrans, Sm. 173 plagiata, Sm. 173 trimaculata, Sm. 24

Pinnotheridæ, M. Ed. 27

Pison nitidus, Sm. 160

Platydidæ, Guénée 192

Platystoma fusifacies, Walk. 113 multivitta, Walk. 113

Plecia dorsalis, Walk. 77

Podomyrma, Sm. 145 basalis, Sm. 147 lævifrons, Sm. 146 femorata, Sm. 145 striata 146

Polistes diabolicus, Sauss. 168 elegans, Sm. 169 fastidiosus, Sauss. 22 nigrifrons, Sm. 168 philippinensis, Sauss. 22 Picteti, Sauss. 22 sagittarius, Sauss. 22 stigma, Sauss. 22 tepidus, Fabr. 168

Polyara, Walk. 122 insolita, Walk. 123

Polypterus 76

Polyrhachis bellicosus, Sm. 142 geometricus, Sm. 141 Hector, Sm. 142 irritabilis, Sm. 141 lævissimus, Sm. 141 longipes, Sm. 140 marginatus, Sm. 139 mucronatus, Sm. 140 hostilis, Sm. 139 rufofemoratus, Sm. 142 scutulatus, Sm. 140 serratus, Sm. 140

Pompilidæ, Leach 11

Pompilus analis, Fabr. 11 contortus, Sm. 12 deceptor, Sm. 12 dubius, Sm. 153 pilifrons, Sm. 12 saltitans, Sm. 11

Ponera parallela, Sm. 143 quadridentata, Sm. 143 rugosa, Sm. 142 sculpturata, Sm. 142

Priocnemis fervidus, Sm. 156 pulcherrimus, Sm. 156 rufifrons, Sm. 120

Prosena argentata, Walk. 102

Prosopis malachisis, Sm. 132

Pseudomyrma læviceps, Sm. 145

Psilides, Walk. 125

Psilopus æneus, Fabr. 91 benedictus, Walk. 91 egens, Walk. 92 lucigena, Walk. 91 orcifer, Walk. 92 planicornis, Wied. 92 terminifer, Walk. 92

Ptilocera quadridentata, Walk. 78

Puffinus brevicaudus, Brandt 33

Rhynchium argentatum, Sauss. 19 atrum, Sauss. 19 hæmorrhoidale, Sauss. 19 mirabile, Sauss. 163 parentissimum, Sauss. 19 superbum, Sauss. 163

Rhyssa maculipennis, Sm. 173 vestigator, Sm. 174

Rutilia angustipennis, Walk. 101 plumicornis, Guérin 101

Salduba, Walk. 79 diphysoïdes, Walk. 79

Salius malignus, Sm. 157

Sarcophaga basalis, Walk. 129 compta, Walk. 102 invaria, Walk. 103

Sarcophagides, Walk. 102

Sargus complens, Walk. 81 metallinus, Fabr. 80 vagans, Walk. 11

Saropoda bombiformis, Sm. 135

Saturniidæ, Walk. 188

Sciara selecta, Walk. 77

Scolia agilis, Sm. 10 Alecto, Sm. 10 aurenta, Sm. 9 erratica, Sm. 9 fulgidipennis, Sm. 152 fulvipennis, Sm. 10 grossa, Burm. 152 insularis, Sm. 153 minuta, Sm. 11 nitida, Sm. 152 quadriceps, Sm. 153 terminata, Sm. 10

Scoliadæ, Leach 151

Scopulipedes, Sm. 8

Sepedon costalis, Walk. 110

Sepsides, Walk. 123

Sepsis basifera, Walk. 124

Setina bipunctata, Walk. 185

Siluridæ 76

Solenopsis cephalotes, Sm. 149

Sphegidæ 14

Spheniscus minor, Temminck 33

Sphex argentata, Dahl. 157 aurifrons, Sm. 157 gratiosa, Sm. 158 nitidiventris, Sm. 158 prædator, Sm. 14 sepicola, Sm. 158 sericea, Fabr. 157

Sphingidæ, Leach 196

Stalagmia guttaria, Guérin 196

Steiria phryganeoïdes, Walk. 190

Stelis abdominalis, Sm. 7

Stenophasmus, Sm. 169 ruficeps, Sm. 170

Stilbum amethystinum, Fabr. 177 splendidum, Fabr. 177

Stratiomidæ, Haliday 78

Stratiomys confertissima, Walk. 79 nexura, Walk. 80

Sulu australis, Gould 33

Synegia botydaria, Guénée 195

Syntomis annosa, Walk. 183 chloroleuca, Walk. 183 xanthomela, Walk. 184

Sypna subsignata, Walk. 191

Syrphidæ, Leach 93, 129

Syrphus ægrotus, Fabr. 99 ericetorum, Fabr. 99

Tabanidæ, Leach 83

Tabanus recusans, Walk. 83

Tachinides, Walk. 97

Tachytes morosus, Sm. 18

Tenthredinidæ 23, 177

Tenthredo (Allantus) purpurata, Sm. 23

Thalatta aurigutta, Walk. 189

Thereva congrua, Walk. 90

Therevites, Walk. 90

Thermesia? recusata, Walk. 191

Thermesidæ, Guénée 191, 197

Timandra Ajaia, Walk. 195

Tipulidæ 78

Tréhala 178

Tremex insignis, Sm. 178

Trigona læviceps, Sm. 135

Trupanea contradicens, Walk. 87

Trypeta basalis, Walk. 120 dorsigutta, Walk. 119 impleta, Walk. 120 multistriga, Walk. 119 roripennis, Walk. 131 subocellifera, Walk. 120

Trypoxylon eximium, Sm. 161

Vespa affinis, Fabr. 23 fervida, Sm. 23

Vespidæ, Stephens 19, 166

Ugia disjungens, Walk. 192

Uraniidæ, Walk. 183

Urothoe elegans 3 inostratus, Dana 3

Worm-tracks, notice of in London Clay 31

Xarnuta leucotelus, Walk. 108

Xema Jamesonii 33

Xylocopa æstuans, Linn. 8, 135 collaris, St. Farg. 8 Dejeanii, St. Farg. 8 fenestrata, Fabr. 8 nobilis, Sm. 8

Xylota ventralis, Walk. 96

Xyphidria rufipes, Sm. 177

Zanclopteryx saponaria, H. Schæff. 195, 198

Zerenidæ 196

Zethus cyanopterus, Sauss. 19

Zygænidæ, Leach 183

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Transcriber's Notes:

Chrysophila changed to Chrysopila in the index to match the text referred to.

Stenophasimis changed to Stenophasmus in the index to match the text refered to.

A number of words occur throughout the book in accented and non-accented forms. These were left as in the original text.