_Anthophora retusa_, 86 Anthrax (_see A. sinuata_), 30, 37, 158, 199 _Anthrax sinuata_, 30, 35 Anthrenus (_see also A. musaeorum_), 33, 44 _Anthrenus musaeorum_, 33 Ant-lion, 13, 366, 368 Asparagus-beetle, Asparagus-grub (_see also_ Field Crioceris, Twelve-spotted Crioceris), 436, 439 Audubon, John James, 348, 350 Azure Hoplia, 274 B Bacon-beetle (_see_ Dermestes), 294 Banded Epeira, 284 Bear (_see also_ Cave-bear), 359-360, 400, 447 Beauregard, Dr., 161-162 Bee (_see also_ Bumble-bee, Hive-bee, Mason-bee and the varieties), 28-30, 34, 45, 53-54, 56-57, 59, 60-65, 67, 70-71, 77, 79, 82, 85, 86, 88-90, 92, 97, 99, 101, 105, 106-108, 110, 128, 141-142, 144, 154, 163, 176, 178, 278, 298 Bee-louse, 85 Beetle, _passim_, 7, 28, 31 Beetle's Gamasus, 314 _Belle_ (_see_ Spurge Hawk-moth), 283 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri, 235 Bison Onitis, 245, 262 Blackbeetle, 388 Blackbeetle of the Sun (_see_ Sacred Beetle) Black-bellied Lycosa (_see_ Black-bellied Tarantula), 267 Black-bellied Tarantula, 267 Black Buprestis (_see_ Cloudy Buprestis), 386 Blatta (_see_ Blackbeetle), 388 Blister-beetle (_see also_ Cantharides, Cerocoma, Mylabris, Zonitis), 154, 161, 164 Bluebottle, 95-96, 100 Bolbites (_see also B. onitoides_), 243, 268 _Bolbites onitoides_, 242 Bolboceras, 388 Bombardier Beetle, 358 Brachinus (_see_ Bombardier Beetle), 358 Brillat-Savarin (Anthelme), 2 Brilliant Buprestis, 387 Broken Bulimus, 456 Bronze Buprestis, 212 Bulimus (_see also_ Broken Bulimus), 451 Bumble-bee, 71 Buprestis (_see also_ the varieties below), 186, 188, 212, 214-217, 219, 221, 224, 234, 274, 292-293, 381-382, 384, 386 _Buprestis aenea_ (_see_ Bronze Buprestis), 212 _Buprestis octoguttata_ (_see_ Eight-spotted Buprestis), 215 _Buprestis tenebrionis_ (_see_ Cloudy Buprestis), 385, 387 Burnt Zonitis, 179-181 Burying-beetle, 296, 306, 314, 337 _Buthus occitanus_ (_see_ Languedocian Scorpion), 402 Butterfly, 100, 102, 177, 274 C Calicurgus (_see_ Ringed Calicurgus), 267 _Calliphora vomitoria_ (_see_ Bluebottle), 95 _Calosoma sycophanta_, 356-357 Camel, 269 Cantharides, 164, 166, 169-170, 290 _Canthon bispinus_, 261 _Capnodis tenebrionis_ (_see_ Cloudy Buprestis), 381 Capricorn (_see also_ the varieties below), 186-189, 193, 195-199, 203-204, 209, 220, 237, 380, 439 Capricorn of the Cherry-tree (_see Cerambyx cerdo_), 207-208, 210-211 Capricorn of the Oak (_see_ Capricorn), 209-211 Carabus (_see also_ Golden Carabus, Purple Carabus), 274, 353, 355-357, 363-364, 376 Carrion-beetle (_see_ Silpha), 294 Cat, 307 Cave-bear, 450 Cellar-beetle, 294, 297, 387-388 Cerambyx (_see_ the varieties below), 188, 191, 194, 197, 199, 201, 204, 205, 210, 212, 216 _Cerambyx cerdo_, 207-208 _Cerambyx miles_ (_see_ Capricorn), 187 Cerceris, 304 Cerocoma (_see also_ Schaeffer's Cerocoma, Schreber's Cerocoma), 160-161, 163, 169-170, 182-183 Cetonia (_see also_ Golden Cetonia, _C. floricola_), 101, 189, 266, 274, 291, 388