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

[291.] Mouffet, Theat. Insect., p. 136.

[292.] Harper’s Mag., xxvi. 497.

[293.] Mouff. Theat. Ins., p. 136.

[294.] De Pauw, ii. 106.

[295.] Life of Amer. Ins., p. 114.

[296.] Earth and Animat. Nat., iv. 216.

[297.] Sloane’s Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, ii. 204.

[298.] Nat. Hist., xxx. 4. Holland, p. 378. H.

[299.] Ibid., xxix. 6. Holland, p. 370. K.

[300.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxix. 6. Holl., p. 371. A.