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

[927.] Nature and Art, xii. 198.

[928.] The numerous family of Culicidæ are confounded under the common names of Gnat and Mosquito; hence many mistakes will necessarily arise.

[929.] Theat. Ins., p. 81. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 952.

[930.] Quot. in N. & Q., ix. 303.

[931.] Phil. Trans., lvii. 113; Bingley’s Anim. Biog., iv. 205.

[932.] Germar’s Mag. der Entomol., i. 137.

[933.] K. & S. Introd., i. 114.

[934.] Phil. Trans., lvii. 112–3.

[935.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., vi. 545.

[936.] Hist. of Barbados, p. 63.