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

[937.] Theatr. Ins., p. 86. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 956.

[938.] Silliman’s Journal, xxii. 375.

[939.] Personal Narrative, E. T. v. 87. Humboldt has given a detailed account of these insect plagues, by which it appears that among them there are diurnal and crepuscular, as well as nocturnal species, or genera: the Mosquitoes, signifying little flies (Simulia), flying in the day; the Temporaneros, flying during twilight; and the Zancudos, meaning long-legs (Culices), in the night.

[940.] Stedm. Surinam, ii. 93.

[941.] Ins. Theatr., p. 82.

[942.] Travels, 8vo. edit. p. 205.

[943.] Ins. Theatr., p. 81.

[944.] View of Jamaica, p. 91.

[945.] Herod. Taylor’s Trans., p. 141.

[946.] Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 435.