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

[471.] Phil. Trans., lxxi. 167–8, note.

[472.] Memoirs, vi. 485. Quot. by K. and S. Introd., i. 284. Cuv. An. Kingd.—Ins., ii. 315. Ins. Trans., p. 373.

[473.] Quot. by Shaw, Zool., vi. 250.

[474.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., iii. 516–8.

[475.] Gosse’s Jamaica, p. 251.

[476.] Gram. and Dict. of the Yoruba Language. Smithson. Public., p. xiii.

[477.] Cuv. An. King.—Ins., ii. 404.

[478.] They were produced by that species of Gall-fly, Cynips, delineated by Reaumur in his Hist. of Ins., vol. iii. tabl. 40. The Mirror, xxx. 234.

[479.] K. and S. Introd., i. 33.

[480.] Browne’s Works, ii. 376.