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

[561.] Pilgrims, iii. 996.

[562.] James’s Med. Dict.

[563.] Hist. of Jam., ii. 221.

[564.] Brande’s Encycl. of Sci. Lit., etc.

[565.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxviii. 7 (23).

[566.] Southey’s Com. Place Book, 3d S. p. 419.

[567.] Gent. Mag., Pt. II. lxxiii. 704–5, and Kirby’s Wond. Museum, i. 353–5.

[568.] Land and Water Creatures Compared, Holl. Trans., p. 793.

[569.] B. 7, c. xv. p. 664. Printed 1613.

[570.] Cuv. An. Kingd.—Ins., ii. 472.