An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 / or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects

by William Kirby; William Spence

[612] Rai. Hist. Plant. i. 401.

[613] Bancroft, i. 401.

[614] Bancroft, i. 413. Reaum. iv. 88.

[615] Humboldt's Political Essay on New Spain, iii. 72-9.

[616] Ibid. iii. 64.—Dr. Bancroft estimates the present annual consumption of cochineal in Great Britain at about 750 bags, or 150,000 lbs.—worth at the present price 375,000l.

[617] Lesser, L. ii. 165.

[618] Bancroft on permanent Colours, ii. 20. 49.

[619] Reaum. iii. Preface, xxxi.

[620] Lach. Lapp. i. 258.

[621] Trans. of the Soc. of Arts, xxiii. 411.