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

[818.] Stow’s Chronicle, edit. 1631, p. 887.

[819.] Keysler, Trav., i. 289.

[820.] Olin, Travels.

[821.] Polit. Essay on N. Spain, iii. 59.

[822.] Skinner’s Pres. State of Peru, p. 346, note. Southey’s Hist. of Brazil, iii. 644. Calancha’s Augustine Hist. of Peru, i. 66.

[823.] Cuvier, An. King.—Ins., ii. 634.

[824.] Pilgrims, iii. 442.

[825.] Darwin, Phytolog., p. 364. Donovan’s Ins. of China, p. 6.

[826.] Hollman, Travels, p. 473.

[827.] Donovan’s Ins. of China, p. 6.