Front matter
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

THE LIFE AND LOVE OF THE INSECT
AGENTS
AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK
AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 Flinders Lane, MELBOURNE
CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. St. Martin’s House, 70 Bond Street, TORONTO
INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. Macmillan Building, BOMBAY 309 Bow Bazaar Street, CALCUTTA
GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, RUSSIA, SCANDINAVIA, AND GERMAN SWITZERLAND BROCKHAUS AND PEHRSSON 16 Querstrasse, LEIPZIG

PLATE I
1. The Sacred Beetle.
2. The Sacred Beetle rolling his pill.
3. Rolling the pill to the eating burrow.

THE LIFE AND LOVE OF THE INSECT
BY J. HENRI FABRE TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1911