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INSECTS ABROAD. 



the earth, both tha.t they may be the better concocted, or else 

 better preserved from cold and rains. 



" TJiat they should be generated of the carkasse of a mule 

 or asse (as Plutarch reports in the life of Cleonides) by putre - 

 faction, I cannot with philosophers determine : first because it 

 was permitted by the Jews to feed on them ; secondly, because 

 no man was ever yet an eye-witness of such a putrid and ignoble 

 generation of locusts." 



The insect which is here represemed is another of the de- 

 structive creatures which are known by the general name of 

 Locusts. AH the insects belonging to this genus have the 

 tliorax exceedingly prolonged, so as to form a sort of neck. 



Fig. leT.—Tryxali.s inguiciilata 

 (Rod brown, with colourod winy 



If the reader will refer to the illustration, he will see that the 

 antennae are constructed after a very curious fashion. In most of 

 the Orthoptera these organs are very long and slender, consisting, 

 as we have already seen, of more than two hundred joints. In 

 this genus, however, the material which might have served for 



