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

[311.] Pinkerton’s Voy. and Trav., vii. 705.

[312.] Med. Dict.

[313.] Nat. Hist. of Ins., p. 67.

[314.] Theatr. Ins., p. 120. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 984.

[315.] Exod., chap. x.

[316.] Of the symbolical Locusts in the Apocalypse it is said—“And the sounds of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses running to battle.”—ix. 9.

[317.] Cf. Ex. x. 15; Jer. xlvi. 23; Judg. vi. 5, viii. 12; Nah. iii. 15.

[318.] Joel, ii. 2–10, 20.

[319.] Oros., Contra Pag., l. 5, c. 2.

[320.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 217; Cuv. An. Kingd.—Ins., ii. 206.