[53] De Antennis Insect. ii. 65.
[54] Nouv. Obs. sur les Abeilles, ii. 376—. It appears from M. Huber's experiment, that it was only when the hair-pencil, impregnated with the oil of turpentine, was presented "près de la cavité, au dessus de l'insertion de la trompe," that the bee was sensible of the odour.
[55] Anim. sans Vertebr. I. i. Mem. i.
[56] Plate [VIII.] Fig. 10-14; [IX.] Fig. 6-8.
[57] Coquebert Illust. Ic. iii. t. xxi. f. 3.
[58] Hor. Entomolog. 413—.
[59] N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii.; compare 104 and 110.
[60] See above, Vol. I. Ed. 4. p. [63]—.
[61] The word μεταμορφοω, and its derivative μεταμορφωσις, are not extant in any Greek writer before the date of the New Testament. They are used to express any external change of form or colour, and metaphorically an inward change and progressive improvement of the mind. Comp. Matth. xvii. 2. Ælian. Var. Hist. l. i. c. 1. Rom. xiii. 2. 2 Cor. iii. 18. They are, therefore, not improperly applied, as some have supposed, to the changes of insects.
[62] Entwickelungsgeschichte der Schmetterlinge 12-27. 105—.