[83] Quoted in Huber Fourmis, 208. Some reptiles also are at one time oviparous, and at another ovo-viviparous. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xii. 568.

[84] I say almost all insects, because the larvæ of Hymenoptera and Diptera are supposed not to undergo this change. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xx. 365.

[85] Reaum. vi. Mém. xiv. De Geer, vi. 280.

[86] See Vol. I. Lett. [xi.]

[87] See Vol. II. p. [36.]

[88] De Geer i. 494—.

[89] Called by M. l'Abbé Preaux, who observed it near Lisieux in Normandy, Mouche Baliste. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. 442.

[90] Plate [XX.] Fig. 20.

[91] Reaum. vi. 509. t. xlv. f. 11, 12.

[92] Reaum. vi. 434.