[38] The grub of the Cockchafer.—Translator’s Note. [39] This is Z. Æsculi, also known as the Wood Leopard Moth.—Translator’s Note. [40] The Diptera are the order of insects comprising the Flies, Mosquitoes, Gnats and Fleas.—Translator’s Note. [41] The Hymenoptera are the order including the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Ichneumon-flies, Sawflies, Gall-flies, etc.—Translator’s Note. [42] The order comprising the Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets, Cockroaches, Mantes and Earwigs.—Translator’s Note. [43] Cf. The Life of the Caterpillar: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [44] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chap. xvi.—Translator’s Note. [45] Cf. idem: chap. vii.—Translator’s Note. [46] Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), the famous French chemist and bacteriologist.—Translator’s Note. [47] Léon Dufour (1780–1865) was an army-surgeon who served with distinction in several campaigns and subsequently practised as a Doctor in the Landes. He attained great eminence as a naturalist. Cf. The Life of the Spider: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [48] .35 inch.—Translator’s Note. [49] .15 inch.—Translator’s Note. [50] .351 increased to .546 inch.—Translator’s Note. [51] .156 increased to .235 or .275 inch.—Translator’s Note. [52] Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chaps. xviii. and xix.—Translator’s Note. [53] For the Nut-weevil, cf. The Life of the Weevil, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. vi; also his Social Life in the Insect World, translated by Bernard Miall.—Translator’s Note. [54] Baron Karl de Geer (1720–1778), author of Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des insectes.—Translator’s Note. [55] René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), author of Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des insectes and inventor of the Réaumur thermometer-scale.—Translator’s Note. [56] Or Burying-beetle. Cf. The Glow-worm and Other Beetles: chaps. xi and xii.—Translator’s Note. [57] For the Bluebottle cf. The Life of the Fly: chaps. xiv to xvi.—Translator’s Note. [58] Cf. More Beetles: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [59] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chap. xiii.—Translator’s Note. [60] Golden Apple-beetles, or Leaf-beetles. Cf. The Mason-Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. viii.—Translator’s Note. [61] Bacon-beetles. Cf. More Beetles: chap. ii.—Translator’s Note. [62] 1⁄25 inch.—Translators Note. [63] Carolus Linnæus (Karl von Linné: 1707–1778), the Swedish botanist and naturalist, author of Systema naturæ, etc.—Translator’s Note. [64] 1⁄25 inch.—Translator’s Note. [65] A little more than ¾ inch.—B.M. [66] The Abbé Charles François Lhomond (1727–1794), a famous French grammarian and classicist.—Translator’s Note. [67] Not quite ¾ inch.—Translator’s Note. [68] 2.18 inch.—Translator’s Note. [69] 10 cubic inches.—Translator’s Note.