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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:
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Cf. Chapter XIV (#pgepubid00021). of the present volume. —Translator's Note.
76
Golden Apple-beetles. —Translator's Note.
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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.
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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.
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A. B. Griffiths, Transactions of the Académie des sciences, 26 November, 1894. —Author's Note.
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Or Carrion-beetle. —Translator's Note.
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Or Bacon-beetle. —Translator's Note.
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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.
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Jean Théodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), author of Genera des coléoptères (1854-1876) and of the work quoted above (1837-1839). —Translator's Note.
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Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714-1786), the German botanist. —Translator's Note.
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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.
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For the confutation of this theory, cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. i. —Translator's Note.