TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 



I have gathered into this volume the es- 

 says on Weevils contained in the Souvenirs 

 entomologiques, lest I should swell unduly 

 the number of volumes devoted to Beetles, 

 of which there will be three in all, or four if 

 we include the present book. 



Chapters I. and VII. to IX. have already 

 appeared, wholly or in part, in an illustrated 

 miscellany, entitled The Life and Love of 

 the Insect, translated by myself and pub- 

 lished by Messrs. Adam and Charles Black 

 (in America by the Macmillan Co.), and 

 Chapter V. and parts of Chapters XI. and 

 XII. in a similar volume, entitled Social Life 

 in the Insect Worlds translated by Mr. Ber- 

 nard Miall and published by Messrs. T. 

 Fisher Unwin Ltd. (in America by the Cen- 

 tury Co.). I am permitted by arrangement 

 with the firms named to retranslate and 

 reissue the chapters in question for the pur- 

 pose of this collected and definitive edition 

 of Fabre's entomological works. 



I am also under no small obligation to Mr. 

 Miall, who has given me the benefit of his 

 assistance throughout. 



Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 

 Ventnor, 30 November, 1920. 



