The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 · the Elder Pliny
THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.
28. Spiders; the kinds that make webs; the materials used by them in so doing 27 29. The generation of spiders 29 30. Scorpions _ib._ 31. The stellio 31 32. The grasshopper: that it has neither mouth nor outlet for food _ib._ 33. The wings of insects 33 34. The beetle. The glow-worm. Other kinds of beetles 33 35. Locusts 35 36. Ants 37 37. The chrysalis 39 38. Animals which breed in wood 40 39. Insects that are parasites of man. Which is the smallest of animals? Animals found in wax even _ib._ 40. An animal which has no passage for the evacuations _ib._ 41. Moths, cantharides, gnats—an insect which breeds in the snow 41 42. An animal found in fire—the pyrallis, or pyrausta 42 43. The animal called hemerobion _ib._ 44. The nature and characteristics of all animals considered limb by limb. Those which have tufts and crests 43 45. The various kinds of horns. Animals in which they are moveable 44 46. The heads of animals. Those which have none 46 47. The hair _ib._ 48. The bones of the head 47 49. The brain _ib._ 50. The ears. Animals which hear without ears or apertures 48 51. The face, the forehead, and the eye-brows 49 52. The eyes—animals which have no eyes, or have only one eye _ib._
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