Note 10 — Chapter V · THE CICADA: THE LAYING AND THE HATCHING OF THE EGGS
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
What name shall I give to this initial state of the Cicada, a state so strange and unforeseen and hitherto unsuspected? Must I knock Greek words together and fashion some uncouth expression? I shall do nothing of the sort, convinced as I am that barbarous terms are only a cumbrous impediment to science. I shall simply call it “the primary larva,” as I did in the case of the Oil-beetles, the Leucospes and the Anthrax.10