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 World, 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. 
