CHAPTER XXVI

Scorpions and suicide—The act proved—Intention 345 probable—Conflicting evidence—Scorpions and cockroaches—Concentrating backwards—Economy of poison—Decorous feeding

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

By Lancelot Speed & Carton Moore Park

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FIRE-BEETLES AS LANTERNS Frontispiece 335

ANT-EATER AND WHITE ANT-HEAPS 14

AN INSECT FREEBOOTER AND AN INSECT BEGGAR 42

RIDING ON BEETLE-BACK AND A LIVING SWEET-SHOP 52

A BUCCANEER FLY AND A LEAF-RESEMBLING INSECT 58

A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS 76

A WASP BEARING OFF A CICADA 100

A LUCK-BRINGING GRASSHOPPER 106

THE HERCULES BEETLE 190

GREAT ANIMALS PURSUED BY DRIVER ANTS 206

DRIVEN OUT BY HORNETS 220

SOLITARY WASPS 228

PROTECTIVE MIMICRY—LEAF-RESEMBLING BUTTERFLIES 256

A DANCING SPIDER, AND A COCKROACH ATTACKING A 294 SCORPION

A BIRD-CATCHING SPIDER NET 308

INSECTS THAT CARRY LAMPS 330

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=THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE=

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