THE END.


Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent and unusual or archaic spelling, use of accents and diacriticals, hyphenation and capitalisation have been retained, except as mentioned below.

Depending on the hard- and software used and their settings used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.

Page 7, List of Illustrations: the portrait of the author is not the frontispiece, and is not included in this edition of the book.

Page 45, "a single red-eye speck": should probably read "a single red eye-speck".

Page 73, "unutterly unable": as printed in the source document.

Page 99, Line Below Shows Natural Size: based on the size of the physical book, this would make the insect’s natural size around 27 mm (just over 1″).

Page 317/318, paragraph starting "Returning to the philology ...": a closing quote mark is missing.