[2] For the complete monograph, cf. Annales des sciences naturelles: Series II., vol. xv.—Author’s Note. [3] The 450 Buprestes unearthed belong to the following species: Buprestis octoguttata; B. fasciata; B. pruni; B. tarda; B. biguttata; B. micans; B. flavomaculata; B. chrysostigma; and B. novemmaculata.—Author’s Note. [4] Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833), a French naturalist who was one of the founders of entomological science.—Translator’s Note. [5] The Beetle known to Fabre as Sphenoptera geminata, Uliger, is now considered identical with S. lineola, Herbst, which was known many years earlier.—Translator’s Note. [6] ·528 oz. av.—Translator’s Note. [7] ·88 oz. av.—Translator’s Note. [8] For a description of this species, which is new to entomology, see the Appendix.—Author’s Note. [9] Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), the celebrated French physiologist, appointed perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science in 1833 and a member of the French Academy.—Translator’s Note. [10] François Magendie (1783–1855), professor of anatomy in the Collège de France, noted for his experiments on the physiology of the nerves.—Translator’s Note. [11] Claude Bernard (1813–1878), another distinguished French physiologist and perhaps the most famous representative of experimental science in the nineteenth century.—Translator’s Note. [12] Annales des sciences naturelles, Series III., vol. v.—Author’s Note. [13] For the Sacred Scarab, or Sacred Beetle, cf. Insect Life, by J. H. Fabre, translated by the author of Mademoiselle Mori: chaps. i. and ii.; and The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps, i. to iv.—Translator’s Note. [14] For Philanthus Apivorus, the Bee-eating Wasp, cf. Social Life in the Insect World, by J. H. Fabre, translated by Bernard Miall: chap. xiii.—Translator’s Note. [15] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [16] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xii.—Translators Note. [17] ·117 to ·156 inch.—Translator’s Note. [18] A species of Green Grasshopper.—Translator’s Note. [19] Nearly half an inch.—Translator’s Note. [20] ·975 to 1·17 inch.—Translator’s Note. [21] ·195 to ·234 inch.—Translator’s Note. [22] 1·05 × ·35 inch.—Translator’s Note. [23] Cf. Social Life in the Insect World: chaps. i. to iv.—Translator’s Note. [24] Cf. Social Life in the Insect World: chaps. v. to vii.—Translator’s Note. [25] The order of insects including Earwigs, Cockroaches, Mantes, Crickets, Locusts and Grasshoppers.—Translator’s Note. [26] Amédée Comte Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1769–circa 1850), author of an Histoire naturelle des insectes (1836–1846) and of the volume on insects in the Encyclopédie méthodique. He was a younger brother of Louis Michel and Félix Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, the members of the Convention.—Translator’s Note.