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by Frank Cowan

[36.] N. & Q., 2d S., ii. 83.

[37.] Bradley, Phil. Account, p. 184.

[38.] N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxii. 81.

[39.] Nat. Hist. of Ins., Lond., 1838, ii. 156.

[40.] Theatr. Ins., p. 149. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 1006.

[41.] Cuvier, An. King.—Ins., i. 533.

[42.] Nat. Hist., xi. 34. Holl. Trans., p. 326. K.

[43.] James’ Med. Dict. Cf. Brookes’ Nat. Hist. of Ins., p. 321.

[44.] Amoreux, p. 154. Burmeister’s Manl. of Entomol., p. 561. Keferot. Uber den unmittelbaren Nutzen der Insekten, Erfurt, 1829, 4to, p. 8–10. Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 303, note. Shaw’s Zool., vi. 28, note.

[45.] Nat. Hist., xvii. 37.