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.