Μηδικὴ, a plant, medick grass, Medicago sativa, 71, 207, 268. Μήκων, a gregarious fish, 234. Μήκων, plant, poppy, 268. Μηλολόνθη, cockchafer, Melolonthus aurata, 9, 88, 89, 125. Μήρυξ, a fish like the Scarus, said to ruminate, Scarus Cretensis, 279. Μίλτος, vermilion, 139. Μίτυς, a substance used by bees to cover crevices in their hives, 261. Μόρμυρος, a sea-fish, Sparus mormyrus, 159. Μόρφνος, another name of the plangus, Falco nævius, 251. Μυγαλῆ, shrew mouse, Sorex araneus, 223. Μυῖα, house fly, Musca domestica, 9, 83, 89; reproduction, 106, 108, 126; omnivorous, 208. Μύξων, a sea fish, perhaps some kind of mullet, 109, 159. Μυοθῆραι ὄφεις, serpents that hunt mice, attacked by the weasel, 238. Μύραινα, sea-lamprey, Muræna helena, _Strack_, 8, 37, 40, 61; reproduction, 103, 109; food, 199; near the shore, 211; hybernates, 213; seizes the conger by the tail, 235. Μύρινος or Μαρίνος, a sea-fish, 218. Μύρμηξ, ant, Formica, 4; winged and wingless, 73, 93, 108; reproduction, 131; industry, 258, 260. Μυῤῥίνη, myrtle, Myrtus communis, 266, 268. Μῦς, mouse, Mus musculus. The Egyptian kind is probably Hierax, those said to walk on two feet are the Jerboa. The Pontic kind said to ruminate. Mus Citillus, _Schneider_, 5, 50; reproduction, 178; Persian, Egyptian, and many other kinds, _ib._; manner of drinking, 205; white mice in Pontus, 216; Arabian mice, 226; Lybian, _ib._; the Pontic mouse is said to ruminate, 278. Μῦς, a bivalve mollusk, perhaps Mitylus, 82. Μυστίκητος, a whale, Balæna mysticetus, 64. Balænopterus musculus or Boops. Μύωψ, horse-fly or gad-fly, Tabanus Cæcutiens, T. pluvialis, 9, 83, 89; origin, 126; death, 127; sucks blood, 208. Ν Νάρκη, torpedo, Raia Torpedo, 37, 40, 104; reproduction and young, 109, 150, 151; habits, 275. Ναυτίλος, cephalopod, the species adhering to its shell is probably the Nautilus Pompilius, another species Argonauta Argo, _Owen in Cyclopædia of Anatomy_, 76, 258. Νεβρίαι γαλεοὶ, dog-fish, Squalus catulus, 149. Νεβρὸς, fawn, 71. Νεβροφόνος, a name of the pygargus, 251. Νεκύδαλος, the larva of the silkworm, Bombyx, 124. Νηρίτης, different littoral trochi, Trochus, Nerita, Haliotis, 85, 86, 94, 117, 118. Νῆττα, duck, Anas Boschas, 45, 203. Νηττοφόνος or Μόρφνος, 251; a name of the plangus. Νισσαΐοι ἵπποι, Nisæan horses, 278. Νυκτερὶς, bat, Vespertilio, 4, 9, 50. Νυκτικόραξ, Ardea Nycticorax, Marabu, 45, 201, 210, 252. Ξ Ξιφίας, sword-fish, Xiphias gladius, 38, 40, 219. Ξυλοφθόρος, insects in wood, Phryganea, Tinea graminella, 136. Ο Ὄζολις, a cephalopod mollusk, the same as bolitæna, 76. Οἰνάνθη, the flower of the vine, 121. Οἰνάνθη, probably the name of some dark-coloured bird, 276. Οἰνὰς, a wild pigeon, Columba migratoria, _Strack_, C. œnas, 111, 138, 203.