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

by William Kirby; William Spence

[622] Ins. Surinam. t. xxix.

[623] Ins. Surinam. t. xxxii. Lister imitated the gilding of Chrysalises by putting a small piece of a black gall in a strong decoction of nettles: this produced a scum, which when left on cup-paper, he says, will exquisitely gild it.—Ray's Letters, 87. 90.

[624] Beitrage, 181.

[625] Sepp. pt. ii. t. ii. f. 4.

[626] Rösel. I. i. 61. ii. 5.

[627] Reaum. i. 383.

[628] Lister's Goedart. 122.

[629] Reaum. ii. 10—.

[630] Ibid. 24.

[631] This is a legend of Virgil, of which an account is given in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Note xv. 12mo ed. 1822, p. 257.