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GEO. H. CARPENTER
Professor of Zoology in the Royal
College of Science, Dublin
Cambridge:
at the University Press
New York:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1913
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on
the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known
Cambridge printer John Siberch 1521
PREFACE
The object of this little book is to afford an outline sketch of the
facts and meaning of insect-transformations. Considerations of space
forbid anything like an exhaustive treatment of so vast a subject, and
some aspects of the question, the physiological for example, are almost
neglected. Other books already published in this series, such as Dr
Gordon Hewitt's _House-flies_ and Mr O H. Latter's _Bees and Wasps_, may
be consulted with advantage for details of special insect life-stories.
Recent researches have emphasised the practical importance to human
society of entomological study, and insects will always be a source of
delight to the lover of nature. This humble volume will best serve its
object if its reading should lead fresh observers to the brookside and
the woodland.
G.H.C.
DUBLIN,
_July_, 1913.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. Introduction 1
II. Growth and Change 8
III. The Life-stories of some Sucking Insects 16
IV. From Water to Air 23
V. Transformations, Outward and Inward 35
VI. Larvae and their Adaptations 49
VII. Pupae and their Modifications 79
VIII. The Life-story and the Seasons 89
IX. Past and Present--the Meaning of the Story 105
Outline Classification of Insects 122
Table of Geological Systems 123
Bibliography 124
Index 129
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