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

[858.] Josselyn’s Voy., p. 116.

[859.] Jamieson’s Scot. Dict., ii. 144.

[860.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., i. 66.

[861.] Harper’s New Monthly Mag., xxii. 41.

[862.] Theatr. Ins., p. 274. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 1100.

[863.] On the Honey-Bee, p. 248.

[864.] Ibid., p. 238, note.

[865.] It is a philosophical fact that the female Cicadas are not capable of making any noise—the above distich evinces its early discovery.

[866.] Symposiaques. B. 8. Holl. Trans., p. 630.

[867.] Thuc. B. 1, vi. (Bohn’s ed.).