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seven inches in the expanse of their wings. Their 

 legs, as has been seen, are most adapted for leaping, 

 and their principal characteristic consists in the struc- 

 ture of that peculiar double apparatus, by which 

 the males are enabled to execute their music. The 

 peculiar construction of this apparatus has been care- 

 fully investigated by Reaumur, and made known in 

 his " Memoirs." 



Mr. Westwood, in his " Introduction to the Modern 

 Classification of Insects," says, that of one hundred 

 and fifty species of Cicada contained in the Royal 

 Museum at Berlin, seventy are from America, fifty 

 from Africa, twenty-five from Asia, including Java, 

 ten from the south of Europe, and six or eight from 

 New Holland ; showing that it is chiefly in the tropical 

 parts of the world that the largest and greatest 

 number of species are found. 



The Indians of South America say and believe, 

 that the Lyerman (Cicada Tibicen) is changed into 

 the Lantern-fly (Fulgora Laternaria), whose cap, in 

 the niffht, emits a light similar to that of a lantern. 



I have several times spoken of the impostures 

 to which those are subjected who are ignorant of 

 Natural History. There have been people who con- 

 sidered themselves well-educated, that have actually 

 believed and circulated such absurd fables as e. &. that 

 there are whole races of men with tails like those of the 



