The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

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.039 inch. —Translator's Note.

46

Three species of Digger-wasps. —Translator's Note.

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

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.039 inch. —Translator's Note.

49

.39 inch. —Translator's Note.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), author of the Confessions, La Nouvelle Héloise, etc. —Translator's Note.

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Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814), author of Paul et Virginie, La Chaumière idienne and Etudes de la nature. —Translator's Note.

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Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852), best known for his Voyage autour de ma chambre (1795). —Translator's Note.

53

Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. vi. to ix. —Translator's Note.

54

Cf. idem: chap. xvi. —Translator's Note.

55

Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps i. to vi. —Translator's Note.

56

Cf. idem: chaps. xii. to xiv. —Translator's Note.

57

Cf. idem: chaps. ix. and xvi. —Translator's Note.

58

Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. xi. to xiii. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. idem: chaps. xv. and xvi. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. idem: chap. xiv. —Translator's Note.

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Sérignan, in Provence, where the author ended his days. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. xvi. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. xvi. —Translator's Note.

64

Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. xvi. —Translator's Note.

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I owe this detail on the work of Olivier's Onitis to a note and a sketch communicated by Professor Valéry-Mayer, of the Montpellier School of Agriculture. —Author's Note.

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Or Burying-beetle. Cf. Chapters XI (#pgepubid00018). and XII (#pgepubid00019). of the present volume. —Translator's Note.

67

Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. xi. xvii., and xviii. —Translator's Note.

68

Cf. The Mason-wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. iii. to vi. —Translator's Note.

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The chapters on the Scoliæ will appear in More Hunting Wasps. Meanwhile, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi. —Translator's Note.