An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 / or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects

by William Kirby; William Spence

[503] Lesser. L. ii. 150, note 22. Boyle says an English lady found that the silk of a single cocoon would extend 300 English leagues or 900 miles. But this must be a mistake.

[504] Reaum. i. 555—.

[505] Plate [XVII.] Fig. 5. b.

[506] De Geer i. t. xxxii. f. 3-6.

[507] De Geer i. 463—.

[508] Reaum. ii. Mem. xi. Comp. De Geer ii. 162. Reaum. ii. 424.

[509] B. Catax—Pupa arcte folliculata. Fab.

[510] Travels in Greece, 285.

[511] See above, Vol. I. p. [476]—.

[512] Merian Surinam. t. xv.