The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

70

The larva of the Rhinoceros Beetle. —Translator's Note.

71

For the Pompilus, or Ringed Calicurgus, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xii. —Translator's Note.

72

For the Narbonne Lycosa, or Black-bellied Tarantula, cf. The Life of the Spider: chaps. i. and iii. to vii. —Translator's Note.

73

Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. i. —Translator's Note.

74

William Sharp Macleay (1792-1865), author of Horæ Entomologicæ; or, Essays on Annulose Animals (1819-1821), on which I quote the Dictionary of National Biography:

75

Cf. Chapter XIV (#pgepubid00021). of the present volume. —Translator's Note.

76

Golden Apple-beetles. —Translator's Note.

77

A genus of Cockchafer. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. vii. —Translator's Note.

78

Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chap. iv. —Translator's Note.

79

The Great Water-beetle. —Translator's Note.

80

Cf. The Life of the Spider: chaps. ii., vii., xi. and xiii. —Translator's Note.

81

The caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk-moth. —Translator's Note.

82

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

83

Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. i. to v. —Translator's Note.

84

A. B. Griffiths, Transactions of the Académie des sciences, 26 November, 1894. —Author's Note.

85

Or Carrion-beetle. —Translator's Note.

86

Or Bacon-beetle. —Translator's Note.

87

Or Rove-beetle. —Translator's Note.

88

The Saprinus is a very small carnivorous Beetle. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. xvi. —Translator's Note.

89

Jean Théodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), author of Genera des coléoptères (1854-1876) and of the work quoted above (1837-1839). —Translator's Note.

90

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714-1786), the German botanist. —Translator's Note.

91

Suites à Buffon. Introduction a l'entomologie, vol. ii., pp. 460-61. —Author's Note.

92

Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. i. to iii. —Translator's Note.

93

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757), the inventor of the Réaumur thermometer and author of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des insectes (1734-1742). —Translator's Note.

94

For the confutation of this theory, cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. i. —Translator's Note.