e, Randal, error as to elephant, 105 _n_.
Homoptera, 462, 463.
Honey-comb, great size of, 418.
Hooker, Dr. J.D., on the elephants of the Himalaya, 110 _n_.
error as to white ants' nests, 413.
on ticks in Nepal, 471 _n_., 472.
_Hora_, 115. _See_ Rogue.
Horace, alludes to a white elephant, 92 _n_.
Hornbill, _Buceros_, 242, 243.
Horse, alleged antipathy to the elephant, 83.
to the camel, 83 _n_.
story of, and an elephant, 89.
horses taught to fight with elephants, 84.
Hotambeya, 40. _See_ Mongoos.
Hot-water fishes, 358.
Hunt, mode of conducting an elephant-hunt, 157.
Hunter, Dr. John, his theory of aestivation, 356.
Hurra! 223 _n_.
Huxley, Prof., _Introd_.
his memorandum on the fishes of Ceylon, 364.
Hydrophobia in jackals, 36.
Hymenoptera, 416.

_Ianthina_, 370.
Ichneumon, 39. _See_ Mongoos.
Iguana, 271. _See_ Reptiles.
_Infusoria_, Red, in the Ceylon seas, 400.
Insects of Ceylon, 403.
their profusion and beauty, 403.
hitherto imperfectly described, 404.
coleoptera, 405.
Beetles, scavengers, 405.
coco-nut beetle, tortoise beetle, 407.
tortoise beetle, 408.
Orthoptera, 408.
the soothsayer, leaf-insect, 410.
Neuroptera, 411.
dragon-flies, 411.
ant-lion, 411.
white ant, termites, 411.
Insects, _Hymenoptera_, mason-wasp, 416.
wasps, bees, wasps' nest, 418.
carpenter bee, 418.
ants, 420.
value of scavenger ants to conchologists, 421.
dimiya or red ant, 422.
introduced to destroy coffee-bug, 423.
_Lepidoptera_, butterflies, 424.
_lycaenidae, hesperidae_, 426.
_acherontia sathanas_, 427.
moths, silk-worm, 427.
stinging caterpillars, 429.
oiketicus, 430.
_Homoptera, cicada_, the "knife-grinder," 432.
Flata, 433.
_Aphaniptera_--fleas, 433.
_Diptera_--mosquitoes, 434.
Coffee bug, 436-441.
Mr. Walker's memorandum on Ceylon insects, 442.
list, 447.
Ivory, annual consumption, 78 _n_.
superiority of Chinese, _ib_.

Jackal, 35.
its cunning, 35.
probably the "fox" of Scripture, 35.
its sagacity in hunting, 36.
subject to hydrophobia, 36.
jackal's horn, the _narric comboo_, 37.
superstitions connected with, 37.
Jackdaw, fable of, 244. _See_ Avitchia.
Jardine, Sir W., error as to elephants shedding their tusks, 79 _n_.
Jay, the mountain, 252. _See_ Cissa.
Joinville, on the parasite of the bat, 20.
_Julus_, 477.
Jungle fowl, 259. _See_ Birds.
Juvenal's allusion to fishes on land, 346.

Kabragoya, 272, 273. _See_ I