122.  Scudder, Frail Children of the Air.

123.  See pp. 179-181.

124.  Scudder, Frail Children of the Air.

125.  My own italics.

126.  Scudder, Frail Children of the Air.

127.  My own italics.

128.  “Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley,” in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxiii, p. 495.

129.  Belt, The Naturalist in Nicaragua, pp. 108-12.

130.  Tropical Nature, p. 97.

131.  Malay Archipelago (1898), p. 331.

132.  Observations on Sexual Selection in Spiders.

133.  Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin, vol. i., Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

134.  The Colours of Animals.

135.  Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin, vol. i., Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

136.  Vinson, Aranéides des Iles de la Réunion, Maurice, et Madagascar, pp. 268, 269.

137.  Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazon (1864), p. 96.

138.  Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. x. (1872), pp. 273, 274.

139.  Captain Thomas Hutton, “Observations on the Habits of a Large Species of Galeodes,” Journal of the Asiatic Society. Reprinted in Annals and Magazine of Natural History, August, 1873, No. 75.

140.  The above facts are quite reliable, but having made my notes, I forgot to mention their source—one of the established entomological organs—and so cannot now refer to it.

141.  Annals and Magazine of Natural History, September, 1874.

142.  The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto vi.

143.  Mémoires du Muséum, vols. 18-20.

144.  Entomologist, vol. 14 (1881), p. 82.

145.  Quoted in The Insect Book, by Leland O. Howard.

146.  Chambers’s Encyclopædia.

147.  White, Natural History of Selborne (stereotyped edition), p. 84.

148.  Ibid., p. 353.

149.  Bull. Soc. Entomolog. Ital., 1885-7.

150.  Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act i., Scene 5, Note 137.

151.  C. F. Holder, Living Lights.

152.  Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1900.

153.  C. F. Holder, Living Lights.

154.  Nature, June 1st, 1893.

155.  Ibid., vol. xi.

156.  Ibid., vol. xx. p. 577.


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