TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
The following essays have been selected from the ten volumes composing the Souvenirs entomologiques. Although a good deal of Henri Fabre's masterpiece has been published in English, none of the articles treating of spiders has been issued before, with the exception of that forming Chapter II of the present volume, The Banded Epeira, which first appeared in The English Review. The rest are new to England and America.
The Fabre books already published are Insect Life, translated by the author of Mademoiselle Mori (Macmillan Co., 1901); The Life and Love of the Insect, translated by myself (Macmillan Co., 1911); and Social Life in the Insect World, translated by Mr. Bernard Miall (Century Co., 1912). References to the above volumes will be found, whenever necessary, in the foot-notes to the present edition.
For the rest, I have tried not to overburden my version with notes; and, in view of this, I have, as far as possible, simplified the scien-
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