[32] For the Scarabæus, or Sacred Beetle, the Broad-necked Scarab, the Spanish Copris and the Lunary Copris, cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. i. to x. and xvi.—Translator’s Note. [33] Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. xi., xvii. and xviii.—Translator’s Note. [34] This is a reference to the days when the author was a provincial schoolmaster. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chaps. xiii., xiv., xix., and xx.—Translator’s Note. [35] The Beetle under consideration is known to some nomenclators as Geotrupes Typhœus.—Translator’s Note. [36] Cf. The Life of the Caterpillar, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [37] A genus of wild Bees. Cf. Bramble-bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. iv. and vii. and passim.—Translator’s Note. [38] François Huber (1750–1831), the Swiss naturalist, author of Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles. He early became blind from excessive study and thereafter conducted his scientific work with the aid of his wife.—Translator’s Note. [39] The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. x., Cf. v.—Translator’s Note. [40] Cf. idem, chap. viii.—Translator’s Note. [41] Cf. The Life of the Spider: chap. v. The essays on the Scorpion will appear in the next, the concluding volume of the series.—Translator’s Note. [42] Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chap. xvi.—Translator’s Note. [43] Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. xi., xvii. and xviii.—Translator’s Note. [44] Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780), a satirical poet, many strophes of whose Adieux à la Vie have become classic.—Translator’s Note. [45] “And thenceforth, of his wings and scythe despoiled, Time sleeps, unmoving on the worlds destroyed.” [46] Voltaire’s story of that name.—Translator’s Note. [47] “Luxury had reached such a pitch among the Romans that they looked upon the huge worms of the oak as a delicacy; they called them Cossi.” [48] Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chap. vii.—Translator’s Note. [49] Cossus ligniperda, the caterpillar of Xylentes cossus, the Great Goat-moth.—Translator’s Note. [50] Marcus Gabius Apicus, a famous Roman epicure who lived in the days of Augustus and Tiberius.—Translator’s Note. [51] Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), the famous French gastronomer, author of La Physiologie du goût.—Translator’s Note. [52] The Rhinoceros Beetle. Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chap. xiii.—Translator’s Note. [53] Cf. Chapters xiii. and xiv. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [54] Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chaps. viii. and xiv.—Translator’s Note. [55] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. i to v.—Translator’s Note. [56] For this Beetle cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. xviii.—Translator’s Note. [57] Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chap. viii.—Translator’s Note.