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

[897.] Reaumur, iii. xxxi. Pref.

[898.] Isaiah, ch. i. v. 18.

[899.] Ex. ch. xxvi. xxviii. xxix.

[900.] Diosc. iv. 48, p. 260. Pausan. B. x. p. 890.

[901.] Beckman’s Hist. of Inventions, ii. 163–195. Bancroft on Perm. Colors, i. 393–408.

[902.] Nat. Hist. of Ins., p. 77.

[903.] Bancroft on Permanent Colors, i. 408–9.

[904.] Hist. of Inventions, ii. 184.

[905.] Ibid., 192.

[906.] Shaw’s Zool., vi. 192.