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

[720.] Athen. Deipn., B. 2, c. 26.

[721.] Moufet, Theatr. Ins., p. 29. Topsel’s Trans., p. 911.

[722.] Brooke’s Nat. Hist. of Ins., p. 168.

[723.] Quot. by Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, p. 78–9.

[724.] Anab., B. 4.

[725.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxi. 13. Tournefort, Letters, 17.

[726.] Mission. Lab., p. 121.

[727.] Hollingsh. Chron., i. 384.

[728.] Hawk’s Peruvian Antiq., p. 198.

[729.] Voyage to C. of G. Hope, i. 255.