[602] Carabus, Oliv. Entom. iii. 69. t. iii. f. 26. Compare Philanthropist, ii. 210.
[603] Molina's Chili, i. 174.
[604] Ent. Carniol. 264.
[605] Captain Green was accustomed to put a fire-fly under the glass of his watch, when he had occasion to rise very early for a march, which enabled him, without difficulty, to distinguish the hour.
[606] Molina, i. 171, 285.
[607] Latr. Hist. Nat. x. 143.
[608] Encyclop. Insect. vi. 281. It had better, perhaps, as compound Trivial Names are bad, be called Cynips Scriptorum.
[609] Olivier's Travels in Egypt, &c. ii. 64.
[610] The colour communicated by Kermes with alum, the only mordant formerly employed, is blood red: but Dr. Bancroft found (i. 404.) that with the solution of tin used with cochineal it is capable of imparting a scarlet quite as brilliant as that dye, and perhaps more permanent. At the same time, however, as ten or twelve pounds contain only as much colouring matter as one of cochineal, the latter at its ordinary price is the cheapest.
[611] Bochart, Hierozoic. ii. l. iv. c. 27. Beckmann's History of Inventions, Engl. Trans. ii. 171-205. Brancroft on permanent Colours. i. 393. See also Parkhurst's Heb. Lexicon under תלע and שנה.