INTRODUCTION, 17 
Passing to the insect world, we may well be astonished 
_, at the number of species to which Shakespeare has alluded. 
Although the same attention has not been given to the 
insects as to the birds, the following have, nevertheless, 
been noted. Many others, doubtless, have been overlooked. 
The Beetle (Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 2; King Lear, Act iv. 
Sc. 6; Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1). The Grass- 
hopper (Romeo and Fuliet, Act i. Sc. 4). The Cricket, 
(Pericles, Act iii. Introduction; Waunter’s Tale, Act ii. 
Se. 1; Romeo and Fuliet, Act i. Sc. 43; Cymbeline, Act ii. 
Se. 2). The Glowworm (Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 5); and the 
Caterpillar (Richard IT. Act ii. Se. 4; Henry VI. 
Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1; Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 1; 
Romeo and Fuliet, Act. i. Sc. 1). The Butterfly (Zrozlus 
and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3; Midsummer Night's Dream, 
Act iii, Sc. 1); and Moth (Merchant of Venice, Act ii. 
Se.9; King Fohn, Act iv. Sc. 1). The House-fly (Z7tus 
Andronicus, Act iii. Sc. 2). The small Gilded-fly (King 
Lear, Act iv. Se. 6). The Blow-fly (Love's Labour’s Lost, 
Act v. Sc. 2; Tempest, Act iii. Sc. 1); and the Gad-fly, 
or Brize (Trodlus and Cressida, Act i. Sc. 3). The Grey- 
coated Gnat (Romeo and Fuliet, Act i. Sc. 4; Comedy of 
Errors, Act ii. Sc. 2; the Wasp (Taming of the Shrew, 
Act ii. Sc. 1; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. Sc. 2; 
Henry VITT, Act iii. Sc. 2); the Drone (Henry V. Act i. 
Sc. 2); and the Honey-bee (numerous passages). 
To three only of these shall we direct further attention : 
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