[51] Also known as the House-swallow, or House-martin.—Translator’s
Note.
[52] Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. xvii., in which the author
describes his collection of water-colour drawings of mushrooms done by
his own hand.—Translator’s Note.
[53] Or Leaf-cutters. Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chap.
viii.—Translator’s Note.
[54] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: passim.—Translator’s Note.
[55] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: passim.—Translator’s Note.
[56] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. iii. and iv.—Translator’s
Note.
[57] Cf. the essay on the Resin-bees in Bramble-bees and Others: chap.
x.—Translator’s Note.
[58] The Common Snail.—Translator’s Note.
[59] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note.
[60] Not yet published in English.—Translator’s Note.
[61] The Hunting Wasps: chaps. viii. to x. and xviii.—Translator’s
Note.
[62] Cf. The Sacred Beetle and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. iv.—Translator’s Note.
[63] Sexually undeveloped females.—Translator’s Note.
[64] A widely-distributed genus of Pond-snails.—Translator’s Note.
[65] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. xiv. and xvi.—Translator’s
Note.
[66] John James Audubon (1780–1851), a noted American ornithologist of
French descent, author of The Birds of America, which was published by
subscription (1827–1830) at $1,000 a copy.—Translator’s Note.
[67] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chap. vii.—Translator’s Note.
[68] Hylotoma rosæ, the Saw-fly of the Rose. Cf. Chapter XII. of the
present volume.—Translator’s Note.
[69] A Beetle whose larva lives in the shoots of cherry- and
walnut-trees, as well as in those of alder and elm. Cf. Chapter XII. of
the present volume.—Translator’s Note.
[70] Or Greenbottles. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. ix.—Translator’s
Note.
[71] Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note.
[72] Rove-beetles.—Translator’s Note.
[73] Bacon-beetles.—Translator’s Note.
[74] Cf. The Life of the Fly: chaps. ix., x. and xiv. to
xvi.—Translator’s Note.
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