The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

95

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

96

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

97

John James Audubon (1780-1851), the noted American ornithologist, of French descent, author of Birds of America (1827-1830) and Ornithological Biography (1831-1839). —Translator's Note.

98

Or Shell-bearing Slug, found along the shores of the Mediterranean. —Translator's Note.

99

Cf. The Life of the Caterpillar: chap. xi. —Translator's Note.

100

Or Bombardier Beetles. When disturbed, they eject a fluid which volatilizes, on contact with the air, with a slight report. —Translator's Note.

101

The Pimelia is a wingless Beetle. —Translator's Note.

102

Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. ii. and vii. —Translator's Note.

103

The Cellar-beetle is one of the wingless Beetles. —Translator's Note.

104

Golden-apple Beetles. —Translator's Note.

105

Blackbeetles or Cockroaches. —Translator's Note.

106

A genus of Weevils. —Translator's Note.

107

A mushroom-eating Beetle. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. xviii. —Translator's Note.

108

Ladybirds. —Translator's Note.

109

For the habits of the White or Languedocian Scorpion, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chaps. xvii. and xviii. —Translator's Note.

110

"… So powerless let me lie,
Gout-ridden, legless, armless; if only, after all,
I live, it is enough: more than content am I."

111

A genus of Weevils, the essays upon whom will appear in a later volume to be entitled The Life of Weevil. —Translator's Note.

112

.959 inch. —Translator's Note.

113

This subject is continued in the essay on the Foamy Cicadella. Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chap. xx. —Translator's Note.

114

Cf. The Mason-wasps: chap. i. —Translator's Note.

115

.039 inch. —Translator's Note.