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

[241.] Gent. Mag., xxv. 376.—Some authors assert that Ear-wigs are not in the least injurious to vegetation.

[242.] Hist. of Jam., ii. 204.

[243.] Med. Dict.

[244.] Hist. of Jam., ii. 204.

[245.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[246.] Quot. by Samouffle, Ent. Cab., 1–3.

[247.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[248.] Pinkerton’s Voy. and Trav., xiii. 108. A beetle, insinuating itself in the ear of Captain Speke when in Central Africa, caused him the greatest pain imaginable. It was six or seven months before all the pieces of it were extracted.—Blackwood’s Mag., Sept. 1859. Barth’s Central Africa, ii. 91, note.

[249.] Hone’s Every Day Book, i. 1121.

[250.] London Labor and London Poor, iii. 40–1.