The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

20

Cf. The Mason-bees: chaps. viii. and ix. —Translator's Note.

21

For the Wasp known as the Hairy Ammophila, who feeds her young on the Grey Worm, the caterpillar of the Turnip Moth, cf. The Hunting Wasps, chaps. xviii. to xx. —Translator's Note.

22

.787 inch. —Translator's Note.

23

Later classifiers place both in the family of the Cantharidæ. —Translator's Note.

24

.393 x .156 inch. —Translator's Note.

25

.312 to .585 inch. —Translator's Note.

26

.117 to .156 inch. —Translator's Note.

27

It was his essays in this periodical, on the metamorphoses of the Sitares and Oil-beetles, that procured Fabre his first reputation as an entomologist. —Translator's Note.

28

The essay on the Tachytes has not yet appeared in English. It will form part of a volume entitled More Hunting Wasps. —Translator's Note.

29

The essays on these will appear in the volume, entitled The Hunting Wasps, aforementioned. —Translator's Note.

30

.058 x .019 inch. —Translator's Note.

31

.078 x .039 inch. —Translator's Note.

32

.078 inch. —Translator's Note.

33

Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. xii. to xiv. —Translator's Note.

34

Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. i., iii. and x. —Translator's Note.

35

For the Cotton-bee, Leaf-cutter and Resin-bee mentioned, cf. Bramble-bees and Others:passim. —Translator's Note.

36

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Abbé de Mureaux (1715-1780), the leading exponent of sensational philosophy. His most important work is the Traité des sensations, in which he imagines a statue, organized like a man, and endows it with the senses one by one, beginning with that of smell. He argues by a process of imaginative reconstruction that all human faculties and all human knowledge are merely transformed sensation, to the exclusion of any other principle, that, in short, everything has its source in sensation: man is nothing but what he has acquired. —Translator's Note.

37

"Chafing and raging, he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth." – Job, xxxix, 23 (Douai version). —Translator's Note.

38

.039 inch. —Translator's Note.

39

For the grub of the Cetonia, or Rose-chafer, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi. —Translator's Note.

40

Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. iii. "The tool does not make the workman. The insect exerts its gifts as a specialist with any kind of tool wherewith it is supplied. It can saw with a plane or plane with a saw, like the model workman of whom Franklin tells us." —Translator's Note.

41

.078 to .117 inch. —Translator's Note.

42

3 to 4 inches. —Translator's Note.

43

.975 to 1.17 inch. —Translator's Note.

44

.585 inch. —Translator's Note.