[7] Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), a German naturalist, editor of a Magasin für Insektenkunde and author of Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium, etc.—Translator’s Note. [8] Gymnopleurus pilularius is a Dung-beetle nearly related to the Sacred Beetle, but smaller. As his name suggests, he also rolls pellets of dung. The Gymnopleurus is very general, even in the north, whereas Scarabæus sacer is hardly ever found away from the shores of the Mediterranean.—Author’s Note. [9] A light opera, with music by Victor Massé and libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré (1852).—Translator’s Note. [10] ‘Ah, how sweet is far niente, When round us throbs the busy world!’ [11] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. i. to v.—Translator’s Note. [12] The weekly holiday in the French schools.—Translator’s Note. [13] This seems the place in which to remind the reader that the first two chapters of the present volume correspond with Chapters I. and II. of the first volume of the Souvenirs entomologiques in their original form. Chapters III. to VII. of the present volume are translations of Chapters I. to V. of the fifth volume of the Souvenirs, published many years later, at a time when Fabre had completed his study of the Sacred Beetle.—Translator’s Note. [14] Cf. Mulsant’s Coléoptères de France: Lamellicornes.—Author’s Note. [15] Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), author of the famous Fables.—Translator’s Note. [16] ‘... a double chance of gain: First, one’s own profit; next, another’s loss.’ [17] .11 to .15 inch.—Translator’s Note. [18] Close upon 9½ feet.—Translator’s Note. [19] 1.75 × 1.17 inches.—Translator’s Note. [20] 1.36 × 1.09 inches.—Translator’s Note. [21] .39 × .19 inch.—Translator’s Note. [22] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [23] Cf. The Hunting Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps, iv. to x.—Translator’s Note. [24] .19 inch.—Translator’s Note. [25] The last ventral segment of the abdomen.—Translator’s Note. [26] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. ix.—Translator’s Note. [27] Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833), one of the founders of entomological science, a professor at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and member of the Académie des sciences.—Translator’s Note. [28] Cf. Mémoires du Muséum d’histoire naturelle: vol. v., p. 249.—Author’s Note. [29] Horapollo Nilous, Orus Apollo, or Horos Apollo (fl. circa 400), author of the Hieroglyphica.—Translator’s Note. [30] Etienne Marcel Mulsant (1797–1880), author of the Histoire naturelle des coléoptères en France (1839–1874) mentioned on page 94.—Translator’s Note. [31] Hieroglyphics: Book 1., x.; Cory’s translation.—Translator’s Note. [32] 1.28 × .93 inch.—Translator’s Note.