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

[531.] Allied to the Stinger (ota) of Yoruba, and Idzalco, “the fighter which makes one go.”—T. J. Bowen.

[532.] Livingstone’s Travels, p. 468.

[533.] St. Clair’s W. Indies, i. 167–8.

[534.] Stedm. Surinam, ii. 94.

[535.] Of similar size and ferocity as the great Red-ant of Ceylon, the Dimiya, Formica smaragdina.—Tennent, N. H. of Ceyl., p. 424.

[536.] The Cobra de Capello, Naja tripudians, Merr.

[537.] Knox, Hist. Rel. of Ceylon, Pt. I. ch. vi. p. 24.

[538.] Stedm. Surinam, ii. 142.

[539.] K. and S. Introd., i. 123.

[540.] Smith’s Nature and Art, xii. 195. Clavigero supposes that all the attachment which the snake shows to the Ant-hills proceeds from its living on the Ants themselves.