INSECTS.

Profusion of insects in Ceylon [403]
- Imperfect knowledge of [404]
I. Coleoptera.—Beetles [405]
- Scavenger beetles [405]
- Coco-nut beetles [407]
- Tortoise beetles [408]
II. Orthoptera.—Mantis and leaf-insects [408]
- Stick-insects [410]
III. Neuroptera.—Dragon flies [411]
- Ant-lion [411]
- White ants [411]
- Anecdotes of their instinct and ravages [412]
IV. Hymenoptera.—Mason wasps [416]
- Wasps [417]
- Bees [418]
- Carpenter Bee [418]
- Ants [420]
- Burrowing ants [424]
V. Lepidoptera.—Butterflies [424]
- The spectre [426]
- Lycænidæ [426]
- Moths [427]
- Silk worms [428]
- Stinging caterpillars [429]
- Wood-carrying moths [430]
- Pterophorus [432]
VI. Homoptera [432]
- Cicada [432]
VII. Hemiptera [433]
- Bugs [433]
VIII. Aphaniptera [433]
IX. Diptera.—Mosquitoes [434]
- Mosquitoes the "plague of flies" [434]
- The coffee bug [436]
General character of Ceylon insects [442]
List of insects in Ceylon [442]

Spiders [464]
- Strange nets of the wood spiders [464]
- The mygale [465]
- Birds killed by it [467]
- Olios Taprobanius [469]
- The galeodes [470]
- Gregarious spiders [471]
- Ticks [471]
- Mites.—Trombidium tinctorum [472]
Myriapods.—Centipedes [472]
- Cermatia [473]
- Scolopendra crassa [474]
- S. pollippes [474]
- The fish insect [474]
Millipeds.—Julus [476]
Crustacæ [477]
- Calling crabs [477]
- Sand crabs [478]
- Painted crabs [478]
- Paddling crabs [478]
Annelidæ, Leeches.—The land leech [479]
- Medicinal leech [483]
- Cattle leech [484]
List of Articulata, &c. [485]
Note.—On the revivification of the Rotifera and Paste-eels [486]