[12] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. iv.—Translator’s Note. [13] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. iv. to viii. and xiii. to xx.—Translator’s Note. [14] 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. [15] Jean Marie Léon Dufour (1780–1865), an army surgeon who served with distinction in several campaigns and afterwards practised as a doctor in the Landes, where he attained great eminence as a naturalist. Fabre often refers to him as the Wizard of the Landes. Cf. The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. i; and The Life of the Fly by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [16] 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. [17] Jean Victor Audouin (1797–1841), founder of the Annales des sciences naturelles and author of a number of works on insects injurious to agriculture.—Translator’s Note. [18] Émile Blanchard (b. 1820), author of various works on insects, Spiders, etc.—Translator’s Note. [19] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. i. to vii.—Translator’s Note. [20] Cf. Chapter III. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [21] The French, it may hardly be necessary to explain, pronounce Latin precisely as though it were French.—Translator’s Note. [22] Réaumur’s actual words are “vers verts;” and Fabre rightly complains of “the hideous assonance.”—Translator’s Note. [23] For the Bembex cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. xiv. to xvi.—Translator’s Note. [24] .39 inch.—Translator’s Note. [25] The Iulus belongs to the Myriapod family, which includes the Centipedes, etc.—Translator’s Note. [26] .156 inch.—Translator’s Note. [27] .234 inch.—Translator’s Note. [28] Cf. The Mason-bees: chap. x.—Translator’s Note. [29] 1.17 inch.—Translator’s Note. [30] .58 inch.—Translator’s Note. [31] For the various species of Burrowing Bees known as the Anthophoræ, cf. Bramble-bee and others: chap. vii. et passim.—Translator’s Note. [32] For the Cicada, or Cigale, cf. The Life of the Grasshopper, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. i. to v.—Translator’s Note. [33] The Pompilus, or Ringed Calicurgus, is a Hunting Wasp, feeding her young on Spiders. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xii.—Translator’s Note. [34] For the Epeiræ, or Garden Spiders, cf. The Life of the Spider: chaps. ix. to xiv.—Translator’s Note. [35] One of the Tube-weaving Spiders.—Translator’s Note.