“As the Ants were airing their provisions one winter, up comes a hungry Grasshopper to ’em and begs a charity. They told him that he should have wrought in summer, if he would not have wanted in winter. ‘Well,’ says the Grasshopper, ‘but I was not idle neither; for I sung out the whole season.’ ‘Nay then,’ said they, ‘you shall e’en do well to make a merry year on’t and dance in winter to the tune that you sung in summer.’”—Translator’s Note. [5] Cf. The Hunting Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. iv. to x.—Translator’s Note. [6] For the Pompilus-wasp, or Ringed Calicurgus, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xii.—Translator’s Note. [7] For the grub of the Rose-chafer, or Cetonia, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [8] Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857), the popular French lyric poet.—Translator’s Note. [9] René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), inventor of the Réaumur thermometer and author of Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des insectes.—Translator’s Note. [10] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note. [11] The Capricorn, or Cerambyx-beetle, lives in oak-trees; the Buprestis-beetles are found mostly in felled timber.—Translator’s Note. [12] Joseph Jacotot (1770–1840), a famous French educator, whose methods aroused a great deal of discussion. He propounded other more or less paradoxical maxims, such as, “All men have an equal intelligence,” “A man can teach what he does not know,” and so on.—Translator’s Note. [13] Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500–1577), known as Matthiolus, a physician and naturalist who practised at Siena and Rome. His Commentaries on Dioscorides were published in Italian, at Venice, in 1544 and in Latin in 1554.—Translator’s Note. [14] Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), a physician and naturalist, author of various works on medicine and of an Universa piscium historia (Lyons, 1554) which earned him the title of father of ichthyology. Rabelais introduces him into his Pantagruel by the name of Rondibilis.—Translator’s Note. [15] “Cicadæ eaten roasted are good for pains in the bladder.” [16] Guillaume Antoine Olivier (1756–1814), a distinguished French entomologist, author of an Histoire naturelle des coléoptères, in six volumes (1789–1808), and part author of the nine volumes devoted to a Dictionnaire de l’histoire naturelle des insectes in the Encyclopédie méthodique (1789–1819).—Translator’s Note. [17] I have gathered the Cicada’s eggs on Spartium junceum, or Spanish broom; on asphodel (Asphodelus cerasiferus); on Toad-flax (Linaria striata); on Calamintha nepeta, or lesser calamint; on Hirschfeldia adpressa; on Chondrilla juncea, or common gum-succory; on garlic (Allium polyanthum); on Asteriscus spinosus and other plants.—Author’s Note. [18] Calamintha nepeta, Hirschfeldia adpressa.—Author’s Note.