[4] Émile Blanchard (b. 1819), a French naturalist, best known by his works on entomology.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[5] The Scarabæi also bear the name of Ateuchus.—Author’s Note. [↑]
[6] Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), a German naturalist, editor of a Magasin für Insektenkunde and author of Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium, etc.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[7] Gymnopleurus pilularius is a Dung-beetle nearly related to the Sacred Beetle, but smaller. As his name suggests, he also rolls pellets of dung. The Gymnopleurus is very general, even in the north, whereas Scarabæus sacer is hardly ever found away from the shores of the Mediterranean.—Author’s Note. [↑]
[8] A light opera, with music by Victor Massé and libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré (1852).—Translator’s Note. [↑]
‘Ah, how sweet is far niente,
When round us throbs the busy world!’
[10] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. i. to v.—Translator’s Note. [↑]