[3] Amédée Comte Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1769–circa 1850), author of an Histoire naturelle des insectes (1836–1846) and of the volume on insects in the Encyclopédie méthodique. He was a younger brother of Louis Michel and Félix Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, the members of the Convention.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[4] Jean Victor Audouin (1797–1841), founder of the Annales des sciences naturelles and author of a number of works on insects injurious to agriculture.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[5] Émile Blanchard (b. 1820), author of various works on insects, Spiders, etc.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[6] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. i. to vii.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[7] Cf. Chapter III. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[8] The French, it may hardly be necessary to explain, pronounce Latin precisely as though it were French.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[9] Réaumur’s actual words are “vers verts;” and Fabre rightly complains of “the hideous assonance.”—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[10] For the Bembex cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. xiv. to xvi.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[11] .39 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[12] The Iulus belongs to the Myriapod family, which includes the Centipedes, etc.—Translator’s Note. [↑]