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

by William Kirby; William Spence

[662] Rai. Hist. Ins. 254.

[663] Reaum. vi. 252.

[664] By this term I would distinguish the tribe of Fossores of Latreille, which the French call Wasp-Ichneumons, and which form the Linnean genus Sphex, divisible into several families as Sphecidæ, Pompilidæ, Bembecidæ, &c.

[665] Mr. W. S. MacLeay in his very remarkable and learned work (Horæ Entomologicæ) has very properly restored its name to the true Scarabæus of the ancients, which gives its name to this group.

[666] Mouffet, 153.

[667] J. Pierii Valeriani Hieroglyphica, 93-5. Mouffet, 156.

[668] Travels, ii. 306. Compare M. Latreille's learned Memoir entitled Des Insectes peints ou sculptes sur les Monumens antiques de l'Egypte. Ann. du Mus. 1819.

[669] Gleditsch Physic. Bot. Oecon. Abhandl. iii. 200-227.

[670] Natural Theology, 497.

[671] Latreille denominates this tribe Securifera; but as the tool of these insects resembles a saw and not a hatchet, we have ventured to change it to Serrifera, which is more appropriate.