TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 



THIS, the sixth volume of the Collected 

 Edition of Fabre's Entomological 

 Works in English, is the first that I am pre- 

 paring for publication since the author's 

 death, on the nth of October, 1915, at an 

 exceedingly advanced age. It contains all the 

 essays, fourteen in number, which he wrote 

 on Butterflies and Moths, or their caterpil- 

 lars. 



Three of these, the chapters entitled The 

 Great Peacock, The Banded Monk and The 

 Sense of Smell, are included under the titles 

 of The Great Peacock, The Oak Eggar and 

 A Truffle-hunter: the Bolboceras Gallicus in 

 a volume of miscellaneous extracts from the 

 Souvenirs entomologiques translated by Mr. 

 Bernard Miall and published by the Century 

 Company. The volume in question is named 

 Social Life in the Insect World; and I 

 strongly recommend it to the reader, if only 

 because of the excellent photographs ifrom 

 nature with which it is illustrated. 



Chapter III. of the present volume, The 

 Pine Processionary : the Procession, has ap- 



