[36] For Theridion lugubre and the Narbonne Lycosa, or Black-bellied Tarantula, cf. The Life of the Spider: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [37] Cf. The Life of the Spider: chaps. vi. and vii.—Translator’s Note. [38] A family of Digger Wasps of whom the larger species burrow in the ground and the smaller in the pith of plants or in rotten wood.—Translator’s Note. [39] Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (1732–1807), the astronomer. Even after he had achieved his reputation, he sought means, outside the domain of science, to make himself talked about and found these in the display partly of odd tastes, such as that for eating Spiders and caterpillars, and partly of atheistical opinions.—Translator’s Note. [40] Or Pompilus: vide supra.—Translator’s Note. [41] For the Scolia, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.; for the Sphex, cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. iv. to x.—Translator’s Note. [42] .177 by .039 inch.—Translator’s Note. [43] For the Cerceris, cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. i. to iii; for the Philanthus, or Bee-eating Wasp, cf. Social Life in the Insect World: chap. xiii. Some of the other Wasps mentioned above will form the subject of chapters in a later volume of this series entitled More Hunting Wasps.—Translator’s Note. [44] Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Abbé de Mureaux (1715–1780), the leading exponent of sensual philosophy. His most important work is a Traité des sensations, in which he imagines a statue organized like a man and endows it with the senses one by one, beginning with that of smell. He argues by a process of imaginative reconstruction that all human faculties and all human knowledge are merely transformed sensations, to the exclusion of any other principle; in short, that everything has its source in sensation: man is nothing but what he has acquired.—Translator’s Note. [45] The order of insects consisting of the Butterflies and Moths.—Translator’s Note. [46] Cf. The Life of the Caterpillar, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [47] Bombyx mori, the Moth of the Silkworm.—Translator’s Note. [48] Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), the author of The Origin of Species, had the highest opinion of Fabre and spoke of him as “that incomparable observer.” Fabre, on the other hand, had no faith whatever in Darwinism, nor was he greatly struck by the views and the suggestions for experiments with which Darwin favoured him from time to time. Cf. The Mason-bees: chaps. iv. and v.—Translator’s Note. [49] “The cheerful morn salutes Evander’s eyes; And songs of chirping birds invite to rise. He leaves his lowly bed.” Æneid: book viii; Dryden’s translation. [50] “Then underneath a lowly roof he led The weary prince and laid him on a bed; The stuffing leaves with hides of bears o’erspread.” Æneid: book viii; Dryden’s translation.