Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. / A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

by Frank Cowan

[131.] Shaw’s Zool., vi. 20. Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[132.] St. Clair, West Indies, etc., i. 152.

[133.] Simmond, Curiosities of Food, p. 295.

[134.] Ibid.

[135.] Tennent, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 407.

[136.] Tennent, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 407.

[137.] Theatr. Ins., p. 152. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 1009.

[138.] De Geer, iv. 275–6. Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 33.

[139.] Hist. of Ins. (Murray, 1830) ii. 296.

[140.] Chronicles, iv. 326.—The water overflowing the low grounds brought the beetles for air to the surface, whence they were swept away by the current.