Part 18

Door-Step Neighbors: --Chronicle of a day, 58; disappearing holes, 59, 16; "ant-holes"; a danger signal; an unhealthy court, 61; a transformation, 62; an experiment; method of excavation, 63; a stalwart worker, 64; an uncouth nondescript; spider-like legs, 66; crawls on his back, 67; a tiny black wasp; a spider-catcher, 69; resting on her wings; inspecting her burrow, 70; manner of burying her prey; skilful workmanship, 71; a new-comer; her wire-like waist; digging her tunnel, 72; manner of working; sound of labor, 74; covering her tracks; opening the tomb, 76; fresh living food, 77; carrying seven times its weight; peculiar features of stone-piling, 78; color of the wasp, 79; the spume-bearer, 81; nomadic blossoms; a sack bearer, 83; winter quarters, 84.

Epeira, field spider, 8.

Epiphytes, air-plants, 181.

Evening primrose, its golden necklace, 118.

"Fertilization of Flowers," 116; wrong theory, 114.

Fertilization of orchids, 105, 183.

Flies: --Robber, 8; bluebottle, 8; harvest ichneumon, 45, 77, 96.

Foxes, wild gambols of, 6.

Froghopper. See Spume-bearer (Aprophora), 82.

Gaertner, recognizing the theory of cross-fertilization, 115.

Genesta, its reception of insects, 118.

Geranium, wild (G. sylvaticum), 112.

Gilbert, concerning cuckoo's eggs, 25.

"Gobs," 80.

Gray, Asa: --Demonstration concerning orchids, 184; surmise concerning the withdrawal of pollen, 188; orchid structure, 190.

Grew, Nehemias, discovery concerning pollen, 110; discoveries about pollen, 113; first step in progress, 116.

Habenaria flava: --Yellow-spiked, 203; H. lacera, ragged, 200; H. orbicularis, showy, 194, 199; H. psycodes, purple-fringed, 200; H. mascula, 189.

Heath, its distinguishing characteristics, 123.

Hemiptera, bugs with sucking beaks, 81.

Herbert: --A follower of Sprengel, 108; recognizing the principle of cross-fertilization, 115.

"Honey-dew Picnic": --Gathering of the clans, 153; a selected spot, 154; a motley assemblage, 155; an outlaw, 157; a finish fight, 158; funeral baked meats, 164; gathering his grist; the founder of the feast, 158.

Honey-guides, 112, 129.

Hornets: --Its heavy load, 9; on the watch, 15; "solitary," 17; queer home of, 18; great sand, 77; black paper, 161.

Horse-balm (Collinsonia), its singular shape, 136; manner of bee's approach to, 138.

Huber: --On insect slavery, 151; on the cultivation of the aphides, 166.

Insect Fertilization, 115.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, detaining its guests, 119.

Jardine, Sir William, concerning cuckoo's eggs, 32.