FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Transformation of Insects, by P. M. Duncan. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1882.
[2] From the Portuguese ‘cuspidor.’ Cf. the Latin ‘conspuere.’
[3] British Medical Journal, 1911, ii. 1531.
[4] The Irish Naturalist, October 1914.
[5] This is a fact I have always tried to conceal from Mrs. Pankhurst; but, sooner or later, she is bound to find it out.
[6] Owing to the recent restrictions on imported fruit imposed by the Government the food of these beautiful little insects will be further diminished. But what does our Government know or care about insects?
[7] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 378.
[8] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 535.
[9] Zeit. f. wissensch. Zool. (1891), li, p. 55.
[10] Geschichte der gemeinen Stubenfliege. Nuremberg, 1764.
[11] If you have a beard.
[12] Modern systematists now call the biscuit-‘weevil’ Sitodrepa panicea.
[13] The figures illustrating this article are taken from The Report of the Fig-moth in Smyrna, Bul. 104. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 1911.
[14] It might be well to repeat the fact that the genus Ephestia belongs to the family PYRALIDAE, which is by most authorities included in the Microlepidoptera. The Speaker’s sneer at the entomologists who work at this group (see his letter in The Times of February 2, 1916) is hardly worthy of one of the chief trustees of the British Museum. As a chief trustee, he must have been aware of the exhibit of the Microlepidoptera, E. kühniella, and its devastating action on the biscuits supplied to our soldiers by the War Office, which has for many months occupied a prominent position in the middle of the central hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. This exhibit showed how closely the study of the Microlepidoptera is associated with the food-supply of our soldiers in many parts of the world.
[15] The modern systematist now calls the black rat Epimys rattus, and distinguishes two varieties—E. rattus alexandrinus and E. rattus rattus; the brown rat is now E. norvegicus.
[16] A History of British Quadrupeds, 2nd ed. London, 1874.
[17] London, 1833.
[18] British Zoology. London, 1812.
[19] Ovalle’s ‘History of Chili,’ in Churchill’s Voyages, vol. iii, p. 45.
[20] ‘An Economic Study of Field-mice (Genus Microtus).’ By Dr. Lantz, in U.S. Dept. of Agric., Biol. Survey, Bull. 31.