[3] British Medical Journal, 1911, ii. 1531.

[4] The Irish Naturalist, October 1914.

[5] This is a fact I have always tried to conceal from Mrs. Pankhurst; but, sooner or later, she is bound to find it out.

[6] Owing to the recent restrictions on imported fruit imposed by the Government the food of these beautiful little insects will be further diminished. But what does our Government know or care about insects?

[7] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 378.

[8] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 535.

[9] Zeit. f. wissensch. Zool. (1891), li, p. 55.

[10] Geschichte der gemeinen Stubenfliege. Nuremberg, 1764.

[11] If you have a beard.

[12] Modern systematists now call the biscuit-‘weevil’ Sitodrepa panicea.