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

[301.] Med. Dict.

[302.] The Grasshopper, however, according to Mr. Hughes’ description, is twice as large as the cricket; it being two inches, the cricket but one inch, in length.—P. 85 and 90.

[303.] Nat. Hist. of Barb., p. 85.

[304.] Athen. Deipnos, L. 4, c. 12. The Cercope, or Monkey-grasshopper, was so called from having a long tail like a monkey, cercops.

[305.] Pinkert. Col. of Voy. and Trav., ix. 612.

[306.] Hist. of West Indies, p. 121–2.

[307.] Voy., ii. 239. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 373.

[308.] Quoted in Simmond’s Curios. of Food, p. 304.

[309.] Gent. Mag., xii. 442.

[310.] Good, Study of Med., iv. 515.