[19] 10.9 inches.—Translator’s Note. [20] 11.7 inches.—Translator’s Note. [21] 4.6 inches.—Translator’s Note. [22] .31 to .39 inch.—Translator’s Note. [23] .156 to .195 inch.—Translator’s Note. [24] Cf. The Mason-bees, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [25] About 1⁄10 × 1⁄50 inch.—Translator’s Note. [26] Cf. The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps, ii, iii and v.—Translator’s Note. [27] Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. iv.—Translator’s Note. [28] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: passim.—Translator’s Note. [29] The Decticus, Tryxalis and Ephippiger are all species of Grasshoppers or Locusts.—Translator’s Note. [30] Epeira sericea and E. diadema are two Garden Spiders for whom cf. The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. ix to xiv.—Translator’s Note. [31] Cf. The Life of the Spider: chap. viii.—Translator’s Note. [32] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: passim.—Translator’s Note. [33] 1.56 in. × .78 in.—Translator’s Note. [34] Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), an American loyalist, created Count Rumford in Bavaria, where he became minister for war. He discovered the convertibility of mechanical energy into heat.—Translator’s Note. [35] Thomas Moffett, Moufet, or Muffet (1553–1604), author of a posthumous Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Teatrum, published in Latin in 1634 and in an English translation, by Edward Topsell, in 1658. Although giving credence to too many fabulous reports, Moffett was acknowledged the prince of entomologists prior to the advent of Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680).—Translator’s Note. [36] Jacques Callot (1592–1635), the French engraver and painter, famed for the grotesque nature of his subjects.—Translator’s Note. [37] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chap. xiii.—Translator’s Note. [38] Cotton-bees. Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note. [39] A genus of Mason-wasps, the essay on whom has not yet been translated into English.—Translator’s Note. [40] A species of Burrowing Bees.—Translator’s Note. [41] Œdipoda cærulescens, Lin.; Œ. miniata, Pallas; Sphingonotus cærulans, Lin.; Caloptenus italicus, Lin.; Pachytylus nigrofasciatus, de Geer; Truxalis nasuta, Lin.—Author’s Note. [42] Conocephalus mandibularis, Charp.; Platycleis intermedia, Serv.; Ephippigea vitium, Serv.—Author’s Note. [43] Cf. The Life of the Spider and The Hunting Wasps: passim.—Translator’s Note. [44] An orthopterous family which includes the Grasshoppers, but not the Locusts. The latter are Acridians.—Translator’s Note. [45] The class of molluscs containing the Squids, Cuttlefish, Octopus, etc.—Translator’s Note. [46] A genus of Myriapods including the typical Centipedes.—Translator’s Note. [47] Cf. Chapter XIV. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note.