[33] Cf. inter alia the author’s Some Reflections upon Insect Psychology, in The Mason-Bees, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. vii.—Translator’s Note. [34] Mites or Ticks.—Translator’s Note. [35] Rove-beetles.—Translator’s Note. [36] A genus of Dung-beetles.—Translator’s Note. [37] Cf. Chapters XI., XVII. and XVIII. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [38] 1.56 × 1.32 inches.—Translator’s Note. [39] Cf. Chapters XII. to XIV. of the present volume.—Translator’s Note. [40] Cf. The Mason-bees and Bramble-bees and Others: passim.—Translator’s Note. [41] Rose-chafers.—Translator’s Note. [42] Or imperial mushroom. For this and the purple boletus, cf. The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xviii.—Translator’s Note. [43] .546 × .273 inch.—Translator’s Note. [44] .585 × .39 inch.—Translator’s Note. [45] Pantagruel: chap. i.; Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation.—Translator’s Note. [46] Minotaurus typhœus. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. x.—Translator’s Note. [47] A genus of Longicorns, or Long-horned Beetles.—Translator’s Note. [48] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps, i. to v.—Translator’s Note. [49] .273 to .312 × .156 inch.—Translator’s Note. [50] Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666–1743), a Lutheran clergyman, lexicologist and natural historian and member of the Berlin Academy. His Beschreibung von allerlei Insecten in Deutschland was published in 1720 to 1738.—Translator’s Note. [51] Martial Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), professor of natural history at the Lycée de Lyon; author of Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France (1839–1846) and other entomological works.—Translator’s Note. [52] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. vi. to ix.—Translator’s Note. [53] Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. ix. and x.—Translator’s Note. [54] The Rose-chafer, whose grub forms the prey of the Scolia-wasp. Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.—Translator’s Note. [55] Cf. Fabre’s own youthful experiences, in The Life of the Fly: chap. vii.—Translator’s Note. [56] For the author’s stay at Ajaccio, where he was a schoolmaster in his youth, cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. vi.—Translator’s Note. [57] Chapter XI. of the present book appeared in the fifth volume of the Souvenirs entomologiques; this and the following chapter formed part of the tenth and last volume.—Translator’s Note. [58] Cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. x.—Translator’s Note. [59] For the Epeiræ, or Garden Spiders, the Lycosa, or Black-bellied Tarantula, and the Labyrinth and Clotho Spiders, cf. The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: passim.—Translator’s Note. [60] Cf. The Life of the Grasshopper: chaps. viii., ix., xvi. and xvii.—Translator’s Note. [61] Cf. The Life of the Fly and The Life of the Caterpillar: passim.—Translator’s Note.