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

[878.] Surinam, 49.

[879.] Tennent, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 432.

[880.] Desc. of China, i. 442.

[881.] Oliphant’s Lord Elgin’s Miss. to China, p. 565.

[882.] Hist. An., B. 5, c. 24, § 3, 4. Bohn’s edit.

[883.] Cf. Bochart, Hieroz., ii. 491.

[884.] Phil. Trans., 1763, n. 10.

[885.] Travels, i. 331.

Baird says, but on what authority he does not state, that Cicadas are frequently to be seen represented on the Egyptian monuments, and are said to be emblems of the ministers of religion.—Encycl. of Nat. Sci.

[886.] Insects of Surinam, p. 49.