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Mason-wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. vi. and x. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. The Life of the Fly, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. ii. and iv. —Translator's Note.

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Cf. Bramble-bees and Others: passim. —Translator's Note.

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Mites and Ticks. —Translator's Note.

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A genus of Beetles of which certain species (Clerus apiarius and C. alvearius) pass their preparatory state in the nests of Bees, where they feed on the grubs. —Translator's Note.

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Another genus of Beetles. The grub of A. musæorum, the Museum Beetle, is very destructive to insect-collections. —Translator's Note.

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.026 inch. —Translator's Note.

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Fabre, as a young man, was a master at Avignon College. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chaps. xii., xiii., xix. and xx. —Translator's Note.

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Jean Marie Léon Dufour (1780-1865), an army surgeon who served with distinction in several campaigns, and subsequently 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: chap. i. —Translator's Note.

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A genus of Burrowing Bee, the most numerous in species among the British Bees. —Translator's Note.

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George Newport (1803-1854), an English surgeon and naturalist, president of the Entomological Society from 1844 to 1845 and an expert in insect anatomy. —Translator's Note.

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Thursday is the weekly holiday in French schools. —Translator's Note.

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Carolus Linnæus (Karl von Linné, 1707-1778), the celebrated Swedish botanist and naturalist, founder of the Linnæan system of classification. —Translator's Note.

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Jean Baptiste Godart (1775-1823), the principal editor of L'Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères de France. —Translator's Note.

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Baron Karl de Geer (1720-1778), the Swedish entomologist, author of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes (1752-1778). —Translator's Note.

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Cf. The Mason-bees: chaps. viii. and ix. —Translator's Note.

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For the Wasp known as the Hairy Ammophila, who feeds her young on the Grey Worm, the caterpillar of the Turnip Moth, cf. The Hunting Wasps, chaps. xviii. to xx. —Translator's Note.