[1] Souvenirs Entomologiques (Ch. Delagrave, 15 Rue Soufflot, Paris),
of which there are now seven series, this volume being a translation of
the first.
[2] The Scarabæus is also called Ateuchus.
[3] G. pilularius is a scavenger beetle nearly related to the
Scarabæus. As its name suggests, it too rolls balls of dung. It is
found very generally, even in the north, whereas S. sacer scarcely
leaves the shores of the Mediterranean.
[4] Fabre subsequently completed the whole life-history and published
it in the fifth series of his Souvenirs (1897).
[5] The beetles dug up belonged to the following species:—Buprestis
octoguttata, B. bifasciata, B. pruni, B. tarda, B. biguttata, B.
micans, B. flavomaculata, B. chrysostigma, B. novem-maculata.
[6] In a later essay, Fragments on Psychology, M. Fabre withdraws these
strictures on (Erasmus) Darwin, explaining that they are based on a
misquotation by Lacordaire, who writes “Sphex” where Darwin had said
“wasp.”