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

[181.] Moufet, Theatr. Ins., p. 110. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 977.

[182.] Cuvier, An. King.—Ins., i. 382.

[183.] Cf. Works, ii. 375.

[184.] Johnson’s Eng. Dict.

[185.] 4th Past., 1. 101.

[186.] In Kirby’s Wonderful Museum, ii. 309, there is an article on the Death-watch, headed “A curious Description and Explanation of the Death-watch, so commonly listened to with such dread.”

[187.] Harper’s Mag., xxiii. 775.

[188.] Shaw, Zool., vi. 34. Nat. Misc., iii. 104.

[189.] Brand’s Pop. Antiq., iii. 226–7.

[190.] Horne’s Introd. to Bibliog., i. 311.