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

[171.] Saturday Mag., ix. 229.

[172.] Theatr. Ins., p. 111. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 977.

[173.] Tour on the Continent, 2d. Edit., iii. 85.

[174.] Browne’s Vulg. Err., B. iii. c. 17. Works, ii. 531.

[175.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 317.

[176.] Tour on Continent, iii. 85. 2d Edit.

[177.] Med. Dict.

[178.] Harris’ Col. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 688.

[179.] Harris, Farm Insects, p. 372.

[180.] This insect has received its English names, of Mole-cricket and Earth-crab, from its burrowing like a mole, and some species of W. Indian crabs; and, from its supposed jarring song at night, it is also called Eve-churr, Churr-worm, and Jarr-worm.—Ibid.