The Hunting Wasps

THE HUNTING WASPS
‘The Insects’ Homer’
Maurice Maeterlinck.
LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON
THE WORKS OF J. H. FABRE
THE HUNTING WASPS
BY J. HENRI FABRE Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, F.Z.S.
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
Henri Fabre’s essays on Wasps will fill three volumes in all, of which this is the first. The others will be entitled The Mason-Wasps and More Hunting Wasps . The former will include the chapters on the Common or Social Wasp.
The first seventeen chapters of the present book appeared some years ago, wholly or in part, in a version of vol. i. of the Souvenirs Entomologiques prepared by the author of Mademoiselle Mori for Messrs. Macmillan and Co., by arrangement with whom I am now permitted to retranslate and republish them for the purpose of this collected and definite edition of Fabre’s entomological works. Of the remainder, ‘The Modern Theory of Instinct’ first saw the light in the English Review , and ‘An Unknown Sense,’ in an abbreviated form, in the Daily Mail .
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
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