[20] Geotrupes stercorarius, a large Dung-beetle. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note. [21] .975 by .351 inch.—Translator’s Note. [22] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. xiv to xvii.—Translator’s Note. [23] A Bacon-beetle.—Translator’s Note. [24] A species of Grasshopper.—Translator’s Note. [25] Psyche unicolor, Hufn.; P. graminella, Schiffermüller.—Author’s Note. [26] As far as can be judged from the case only, Psyche febretta, Boyer de Fonscolombe.—Author’s Note. [27] Fumea comitella and F. intermediella, Bruand.—Author’s Note. [28] A fictitious character, a sort of dolt, created by some wit in a French regiment quartered in Brabant about the year 1792. Cadet Roussel’s entertaining exploits were perpetuated in a contemporary ballad.—Translator’s Note. [29] Cf. Chapter XI. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [30] For other instances of what Fabre calls “the insect’s mental incapacity in the presence of the accidental” I would refer the reader to one essay inter alia, entitled, Some Reflections upon Insect Psychology, which forms chap. vii. of The Mason-bees.—Translator’s Note. [31] Thursday is the weekly holiday in French schools.—Translator’s Note. [32] The Abbé Lazaro Spallanzani (1729–99), an early experimenter in natural history and author of a number of important works on the circulation of the blood, on digestion, on generation and on microscopic animals. Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chap. xix.—Translator’s Note. [33] Cf. The Mason-Bees, passim.—Translator’s Note. [34] Rabasso is the Provençal for truffle. Hence the word rabassier to denote a truffle-hunter.—Author’s Note. [35] For some account of Fabre’s drawings of the fungi of his district, cf. The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xvii.—Translator’s Note. [36] One of the Dung-beetles. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. v.—Translator’s Note. [37] Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. xviii.—Translator’s Note. [38] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note. [39] A Dung-beetle. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. x.—Translator’s Note. [40] 7.8 inches.—Translator’s Note. [41] Since writing the above lines, I have found him eating one of the true Tuberaceæ, Tuber Requienii, Tul., the size of a cherry.—Author’s Note. [42] Carrion-beetles proper.—Translator’s Note. [43] Bacon-beetles—Translator’s Note. [44] Burying-beetles proper.—Translator’s Note. [45] A species of small carnivorous Beetles.—Translator’s Note. [46] A species of Weevils found on thistle-heads.—Translator’s Note. [47] .078 inch.—Translator’s Note. [48] The author employs this word to denote the insects that are helpful, while describing as “ravagers” the insects that are hurtful to the farmer’s crops.—Translator’s Note. [49] This order includes the Ichneumon-flies, of whom the Microgaster is one.—Translator’s Note.